Do masks and tiger hats belong to folk art

Masks and tiger hats belong to folk art.

1. Humans have been wearing masks for thousands of years. The earliest masks probably came from hunting activities. In order to get close to their prey, hunters dress themselves up as various animals with masks. In folk activities all over the world, people often dress themselves up as ghosts and all kinds of exotic birds and beasts with masks to show their worship of natural forces or conquer them in imagination. Masks are still the main means of makeup for some folk opera performances. Masks have become history. China's mask art has unique cultural connotation and modeling characteristics. In the long process of its formation and development, it is integrated, interdependent and infiltrated with primitive music and dance, witchcraft, totem worship, folk songs and dances, traditional operas, etc., which vividly reflects the concept and belief, folk culture, emotional ideal and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation, and to some extent reflects the psychological characteristics and spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation.

2. Tiger hat is a kind of hand-made handicraft with folk flower arrangement and embroidery. It has a long history of six or seven hundred years. The main varieties are tiger head hat, tiger head shoes, pocket belly, shawl, sole and so on. There are not many people who can do this craft in Old Wang Ji Township, Zhecheng County. There are only a dozen elderly people in Jessie Village Committee, and the work continuation is very complicated. It can only be completed after dozens of work extensions such as cutting, pasting, inserting, stabbing and sewing.