Editorial Standards and Corrections

We aim to explain a tradition in its regional and community setting. Official registers help establish listed names, places, and dates; museum catalogues support claims about specific objects; research can explain materials and techniques. One example is not evidence that every workshop, period, or community follows the same method.

We preserve uncertainty, distinguish an institution's attribution from an established fact, and avoid claiming that a guide represents every practitioner. National recognition and UNESCO inscription are separate designations and should not be confused.

Our standard is to write useful explanations in our own words and attach sources readers can check. AI tools may assist research, drafting, editing, or illustration. Their output requires source checking and does not establish expertise, personal experience, fieldwork, or a new fact.

We do not present a compiled guide as an interview or firsthand workshop visit unless that activity actually occurred. Cultural and health information is educational; it does not provide personal medical advice, an object authentication, or a valuation.

Some early guides use AI-generated contextual illustrations. These are visual explanations, not documentary photographs of a named maker, workshop, ceremony, or historical object. They should not be used to authenticate an object or infer an undocumented process.

Museum photographs are used with their recorded public-domain status or permission, and credits belong with the relevant images or source section. A crop or another view of the same object is not a separate historical example. Rights in a photograph and facts about its subject are different questions.

Send corrections and rights enquiries to hongyu.hg@gmail.com, including the guide URL, the precise passage or image, and a reliable source or evidence of your rights. We review the evidence and revise confirmed errors. We do not promise a fixed response time.

Our source choices and cultural explanations are based on relevance and evidence. Advertising, if introduced, must be distinguishable from editorial content and must not be presented as a museum or practitioner endorsement.