Embroidered Icon Connects China to World Expo

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Embroidered Icon Connects China to World Expo

China's World Expo 2010 Shanghai Bidding Office recently received an embroidered icon of Jesus, a reproduction of the first-prize winner in the World Expo held 87 years ago.

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China's World Expo 2010 Shanghai Bidding Office recently received an embroidered icon of Jesus, a reproduction of the first-prize winner in the World Expo held 87 years ago.

Both the copy and the original, which no longer exists, came from Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. Cao Meijie, a pupil of Shen Shou who made the original, has taken five months to finish the icon and has done so by studying original photocopies.

The new embroidery, 46 centimeters long and 36 centimeters wide, contains over 100,000 stitches. The eyes of Jesus were the most difficult part, taking two months and over one kilometer thread to finish, according to Cao.

"We have done all this to show the ordinary person's support for China's World Expo bid and our aspiration to exchange and integrate with the world," 46-year-old Cao Meijie said.

With China's intensive efforts in World Expo bidding, more records are emerging of prizes awarded to Chinese in various World Expos connecting China more closely to the World Expo.

Experts said that China took part in the first World Expo in 1851, where Xu Rongcun, a businessmen from Shanghai, won both gold and silver awards for his 12 packets of local silk products "Rongji Husi".

Other prizes awarded have been: a gold in a World Expo held in Italy in 1906 was won by "Yisheng Wine" from Haimei Yisheng Brewery in Jiangsu Province; a silver in a World Expo held in 1915 in San Francisco for combs from Jiangsu Province's Changzhou as well as two golds for Maotai wine and Keya Brandy; and another gold for combs from Changzhou in the World Expo in Philadelphia, the United States in 1926.

Ji Lude, an expert from China's World Expo 2010 Shanghai Bidding Office, said that these prizes in World Expos have shown China has a traditional involvement with World Expos. He believes China with its fast progress in technology and the economy and with its up-to-date products and inventions will attract many people.

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