Chinese traditional folk crafts include woodblock New Year pictures, dust paintings, paper horses, interior paintings, clay sculptures, dough sculptures, sugar sculptures, sugar blowers, brick carvings, porcelain carvings, miniature carvings, puppets, shadow puppets, batik, embroidery, There are 70 kinds of traditional Chinese folk crafts including brocade, paper-cutting, kites, facial makeup and masks.
1. Dough shaping refers to making mature dough with flour, glutinous rice flour, glycerin or clear flour as raw materials, and then kneading it into various flowers, birds, etc. by hand and various special shaping tools. Handicrafts of specific images of fish, insects, scenery, utensils, characters, animals, etc. Commonly known as noodle flower, gift steamed bun, flower cake, and noodle maker.
2. The paper horse is essentially a black and white woodcut print, because it only exists among the people. In order to distinguish it from other book illustration prints, Buddhist and Taoist prints, we call it folk prints. Of course, folk prints should also include New Year paintings.
People who study folk art in Yunnan often call it "Jiama paper", which is based on the folk names of Baoshan, Tengchong, Dali and other western Yunnan areas where this kind of folk prints were first collected. So it became a custom.
3. Inner painting is a unique traditional craft in my country, which originated from painting snuff bottles. The painting method of the inner painting is to use a special deformed fine pen to hand-paint a meticulous picture on the pot blank made of glass/crystal, amber and other materials, with elegant style and exquisite brushstrokes.
Modern interior painting art originated from the Beijing School and is divided into five major schools: Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Guangdong and Qin. Among them, the Hebei School of Interior Painting is the largest, fastest growing and most influential. It has recently been selected as a national On the list of protected intangible cultural heritage, Hengshui, Hebei, the birthplace of Hebei style interior painting, was also named the "Hometown of Chinese Interior Painting" by the Ministry of Culture.
4. Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play" or "lantern shadow play", is a folk drama in which silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard are used to perform stories.
During the performance, the artists controlled the puppets behind a white curtain while telling stories using local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and string instruments, giving it a strong local flavor. Its popularity range is extremely wide, and various shadow puppet shows are formed due to the different voices and tunes performed in different places.
Shadow puppetry is an ancient traditional Chinese folk art. Old Beijingers call it "donkey shadow puppetry". According to historical records, shadow puppetry began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and spread to West Asia and Europe during the Yuan Dynasty. It can be said that it has a long history and a long history.
5. Embroidery is the general term for various decorative patterns embroidered on fabrics by needle and thread. Embroidery is divided into two types: silk embroidery and feather embroidery. It is a decorative fabric that uses a needle to pierce silk thread or other fibers and yarns on the embroidery material in a certain pattern and color to form a pattern with embroidery traces. It is the art of using needle and thread to add human design and craftsmanship to any existing fabric.
Embroidery is one of the traditional Chinese folk handicrafts and has a history of at least two to three thousand years in China. There are four main categories of Chinese embroidery: Su embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery.
The techniques of embroidery include: wrong stitch embroidery, random stitch embroidery, net embroidery, all-over embroidery, lock silk, Na silk, Na brocade, flat gold, shadow gold, plate gold, spread velvet, scraped velvet , stamping yarn, sprinkling thread, cross-stitching, etc. The uses of embroidery mainly include life and art decoration, such as clothing, bedding, tablecloths, stages, and art decoration.