What folk arts are there in China and what have been passed down to this day?

China is a cultural power. Under the influence of China culture, many folk arts were born in China. Inspired by China culture, these arts have become colorful in this unique cultural atmosphere. With the rapid development of science and technology in modern times, people's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. Some traditional handicrafts and folk arts have been broken, and no one has inherited them, which has become the fatal wound of folk art. Nowadays, there are few folk arts left in China, including sugar blowers, New Year pictures, paper-cutting, face-changing and embroidered shoes.

The specific founding time of the sugar blower cannot be verified. According to legend, it was invented by Liu Bowen, a strange man. In order to avoid the pursuit of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen exchanged identities with an old man who sold sugar, and lived a life of selling sugar from then on. During this period, after careful study, Liu Bowen played tricks on sugar. He found that after sugar was softened, it could be changed into various forms by blowing and manipulating. After that, this craft quickly spread in his hands, and the folk art of blowing sugar has a history of more than 600 years.

In ancient times, New Year pictures were called door-god pictures, which were painted by people to drive away evil during the New Year in China. During Guangxu period, this folk art officially became? New year pictures? . New Year pictures are a unique way of painting in China, which has entrusted people with good expectations for the coming year and is a folk art with a very wide audience. Paper-cutting has a long history, as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Its unique hollow design gives paper a very high book value. Because of its high artistic value, it has long been listed as an intangible cultural heritage in China.

Face changing first appeared in the Ming Dynasty and reached its peak in Qianlong period. In today's Sichuan and Chongqing areas, people can still often see the folk art of changing faces, which is very rare and well preserved. Embroidered shoes first appeared mainly to commemorate Jin Xiangong's great achievements. At that time, all the women in the Jin imperial palace had to wear embroidered shoes with special patterns. Later, this behavior spread all over the country. Nowadays, embroidered shoes have evolved various patterns, and various patterns have been embroidered on the vamps to show the customs of people in different regions.