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UNESCO inscribed the "Spring Festival, Social Practices of the Chinese People in Celebration of Traditional New Year" on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To ...

The modern era of Yunhe's wooden toy production began in the early 1970s. In 1972, Yunhe received its first wooden toy sample ...