Photos: Folk art performances attract media

Chinese Yangko dance (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Diabolo performance (Photo credit: Xinhua)

(BEIJING, March 13) -- Invited by the Beijing Olympic Media Center, over thirty domestic and overseas journalists had full coverage of the Olympic host city's folk art here on Thursday.

They were introduced to one of the city's cultural cradles in Xuanwu District for a close look at some intangible treasures of Chinese culture.

With over 3,000 years' history, Beijing boasts an array of cultural highlights such as the diabolo, Chinese Yangko dance and paper cutting.

A foreign journalist tries to play a diabolo. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

A folk artist shows her painting on an eggshell. (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Aged folk artists make paper-cutting performance. (Photo credit: Xinhua)