The traditional skills in the ten classifications of intangible cultural heritage include shadow puppetry, wood carving, clay sculpture, Chinese paper-cutting, and Nanjing Yunjin weaving techniques.
1, Shadow Puppets
Shadow Puppets (Shadow Puppets), also known as "Shadow Play" or "Lamp Shadow Play", is a kind of folk theater that performs a story with silhouettes of people made of animal skins or cardboard. It is a kind of folk theater that uses silhouettes of people made of animal skin or cardboard to perform stories. During the performance, the artists manipulate the shadow figures behind a white curtain while telling the story with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, which has a strong local flavor. The popularity of the theater is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different vocal cadences performed in different places.
2, wood carving
Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, often called "folk craft" in our country. Wood carving can be divided into three-dimensional round carving, root carving, relief carving three categories. Wood carving is separated from the carpentry of a type of work, in our country's classification of work for the "fine woodworking". Folk art varieties categorized by carving materials. Generally choose the texture of fine and tough, not easy to deform the species such as nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, mahogany, longan and so on.
3, clay sculpture
Clay sculpture is a traditional Chinese folk art of an ancient common folk art. That is, with clay molded into a variety of images of a folk craft. Production method is mixed with a little cotton fiber in the clay, pounded well, made of various characters pinch the mud blanks, after drying, coated with primer, and then apply color painting. It takes clay as raw material, kneads into shape by hand, or plain or colored, with figures and animals as the main ones. Clay sculpture originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City, and is popular in Shaanxi, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan and other places.
4, Chinese paper-cutting
Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knife to cut patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is intertwined with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities.
5, Nanjing brocade weaving techniques
Nanjing brocade weaving techniques, "through the warp and weft" and other core technologies, in the construction of complex large looms, by the upper and lower two people operating manually, with silk threads, gold threads, and peacock feather threads and other materials to weave expensive fabrics, such as dragon robes. The Nanjing Yunjin weaving technique has a complete system and is a testimony to the extraordinary creativity of mankind.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shadow Play Baidu Encyclopedia-Wood Carving for the above