What are the traditional Chinese handcrafts

Traditional Chinese handcrafts include embroidery, paper-cutting and ceramics.

1, embroidery

Embroidery is a general term for a variety of decorative designs embroidered on fabric by needle and thread. Embroidery is divided into two kinds of silk thread embroidery and feather embroidery. It is a needle will be silk thread or other fibers, yarns to a certain pattern and color in the embroidery material piercing, to the embroidery marks constitute a pattern of decorative fabrics. It is an art of adding human designs and productions to any fabric in existence using needles and threads.

The craftsmanship requirements of embroidery are: smooth, flush, flat, even and clean. Shun is a straight line straight, smooth curve round; Qi is a neat needle trace, edge of the phenomenon of no discrepancy; flat is the gesture is accurate, embroidery surface flat service, silk strands are not skewed; uniform is the needle distance is consistent, no bottom, no overlap; clean is the embroidery surface is clean, no ink and other stains.

2, paper-cutting

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives 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, intermingled with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities. The visual image and modeling format of its inheritance continue to contain a wealth of cultural and historical information.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining many kinds of objects together and producing ideal and beautiful results. Whether with one or more image combinations, are "to the image of meaning" "to the meaning of the image" to modeling, rather than according to the objective natural form to modeling, at the same time, is good at the use of the technique to create a variety of auspicious objects, the agreed image combination The first is to express their own psychology.

3, ceramics

Ceramics is the pottery and porcelain collectively, but also a kind of Chinese arts and crafts, as far back as the Neolithic era, China has a rough, simple style of colored pottery and black pottery. Pottery and porcelain have different textures and properties. Pottery, is a high viscosity, plasticity clay as the main raw material made of opaque, with fine pores and weak water absorption, hit the sound turbid.

Ceramic materials are usually divided into glass, glass ceramics and engineering ceramics 3 categories. Which engineering ceramics are divided into two categories of ordinary ceramics and special ceramics. One of the ordinary ceramics, also known as traditional ceramics, special ceramics, also known as modern ceramics.