From wooden boards to gourds, from rice paper to silk, the pyrography artists of Juancheng use fire as ink and the heated pen as their brush, writing a contemporary chapter of this ancient art on ...

In Juye county in East China's Shandong province, Jiao Xueyin, 81, has practiced gourd pyrography – the technique of making exquisite art by applying heat and fire to gourds – for over a decade. Jiao ...

Zhang Ge, an artist in Datong, North China's Shanxi province, has created a series of pyrography artworks themed on famous landscapes, historical figures and stories about the city, such as the ...