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In the village of Zhu Xian Zhen south of Kaifeng, a printmaker still picks the wood, carves the block and boils the colour from plants. The craft entered China's first national intangible heritage list in 2006.
Kaifeng's large theme park is a modern construction, opened in 1998 and laid out at one-to-one scale from the Song painting Qingming Shanghe Tu. Its best feature is a two-level bridge you can walk in both directions.
Kaifeng's soup dumplings are lifted like a lantern, set down like a chrysanthemum and eaten through a window torn in the skin.
Daxiangguo has been destroyed by a river, turned into a market and rebuilt in the Qing, and it still keeps a Buddhist repertoire of more than 200 pieces.