Origin of Folk Art

Chinese Folk Crafts

Chinese folk art crafts have a long and colorful history.

Most of these crafts are related to folklore, and are made of ceramics, clay sculptures, cloth, wood, lanterns, pendants,

Lijiang woodcarving, birch skin craft, lacquer craft, animal skin craft, inkstone craft, bamboo weaving craft, lacquer pottery, jade craft, marble craft,

The Tujia poplar woodcarvings, porcelains, kites, paper cuttings, straw paintings, New Year paintings, pencil chip paintings, tangka, topiary paintings,

Chinese folk art crafts have a long and colorful history.

Most of the contents are lively spirit, good luck, long life, health, wealth and prosperity, children and grandchildren, etc., and are used in traditional folk festivals, traditional religion and ethnic jewelry.

These folk crafts are widely circulated, vivid and interesting, representing the traditional culture and daily activities of the Chinese people.

China Folk Art website is here to introduce some of the best of the best in this special categorization for your enjoyment and reference.

Chinese folk art

Chinese folk art is the artistic treasure of the Chinese nation, an important part of Chinese folk culture, and a treasure in the world of culture and art.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the reform and opening up for more than 20 years, Chinese folk painting art has gradually developed into a modern folk painting with a distinctive sense of the times, but also rich in the flavor of life and folk nature.

China's folk art website in this special classification to select some representative of the introduction to you for appreciation and reference.

Chinese folklore

China is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious region, different ethnic groups and even different surnames, families have different religious beliefs.

"Cili County Records" recorded that: "Dayong Chongshan outside the screen, rarely see the sun, and sexual tolerance, stabbing the skin blood to serve God, thousands of groups, very ridiculous.

"The Ming dynasty Longqing" Yuezhou Fu Zhi "is also contained:" Yuan Li basin, its customs believe in ghosts and good rituals, its rituals must make wizards for music, song and dance to entertain the gods.

"The Qing Dynasty" Zhen genealogy "of the Wulingyuan area of religious beliefs are also described:" its customary belief in witch Shang ghosts, things to the king, public security and other gods, in the morning Nuo Nuo wish as a priority, honor the wizard, race God wish, blowing bull horns, jumping drums ...... "This is the characteristics of our national religious beliefs.

Historically, the Chinese family ancestors have experienced "everything has a spirit" and "totem" belief in the historical stage.

Due to the introduction of Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity, Catholicism, gradually evolved into a variety of worship.

To what is known today as folklore.

Chinese folk artists

One day, I came to Guangxi Fuji County Museum to visit.

The predecessor of the museum was the Li Zhenya Conference Hall built in 1979, which was remodeled into the **** and National Museum of Ethnic Arts and opened to the public in 1986.

Inside the museum*** there is a collection of ethnic art focusing on China's most famous artists and famous poets, as well as a collection of several types of Chinese folk artists.

It is known as one of the most famous art museums in China.

Now my Chinese folk art website mainly carries forward the excellent and splendid folk art heritage of the Chinese nation, protects the sustainability of Chinese folk art and culture, and further excavates, organizes, passes on, and researches Chinese folk art, especially the ancient folk songs, dances, and music that are on the verge of being lost.

Chinese folk art of film and television

In the history of the development of human art so far, the most brilliant chapter is probably the birth of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the gradual maturation of the art of film and the accompanying television art.

As a new category of art, film and television art, with the help of the magic of photoelectricity, close to the real life of the real image and sound reproduced on the screen, which not only realizes the popularization of the information transfer, but also makes the artistic content containing the most extensive and ordinary life experience, into the process of communication and acceptance.

People's spiritual world expression and entertainment life has reached an unprecedented rich and colorful.

Chinese folk dance art

Folk dance art has a long history, 5000 years ago in the Neolithic era has been produced, through the development of successive generations, inherited to date, its types of regional differences, the content is very rich.

The dances "Running Curtain" and "Running Formation Dance" are evolved from the ancient wars in which the troops were arranged.

The "Fighting Unicorn" and "Carrying Box Dance" reflect the fight between the ancient people and the beast.

The Dragon Dance, the Lion Dance, the Unicorn Dance, the Mule Dance, the Bamboo Horse Dance, and the Cat and Butterfly Dance are typical analog dances.

The "Spring Bull" and "Iron Dance" are imitations of people's productive labor.

The Eight Beauties, Lotus Lantern, Chrysanthemum Lantern, Dry Boat Dance and Stilt Dance express the yearning of the working masses for a better life.

The large-scale mass dance "Yangge Dance" and "Waist Encouragement" are revolutionary dances produced during the Liberation War.

The "Lifting Pavilion" and "Elbow Pavilion" are typical prop-based dances.

The inspiring "Drum Dance" and "Big Copper Dance" are spectacular and exuberant.

The use of props in performance, the combination of song and dance, and the use of virtual and symbolic means of expression are the obvious characteristics of folk dance in the Central Plains.

China Folk Art website here is a special classification to select some representative of the introduction to you, for appreciation and reference.

Chinese folk opera art

Opera is a traditional form of Chinese theater.

It is a synthesis of various factors including literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts.

It has a long history of origin, and after more than 800 years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development, it has gradually formed a relatively complete system of opera art.

Although its origins come from three different art forms: folk songs and dances, rap, and burlesque, the biggest feature that distinguishes one type of opera from another is that it comes from different vocal systems.

These musical cantatas are based on the language, folk songs, and folk music of the region where they are produced, as well as the music of other regions.

Most of the characters in each type of opera are played by the different faces of Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou, etc.

The performance of the opera is based on the language of the region in which it was produced, folk songs, and other regional music.

The performances emphasize the use of programmed movements based on life, and virtual space processing.

The art of singing, doing, reading and finding, the performance of transportation and rich dance, high technical, constitutes a complete system of opera art that distinguishes it from other dramas.

According to incomplete statistics, China's various ethnic regions of the opera genre, there are about 360 kinds of traditional repertoire tens of thousands.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were many adapted traditional repertoires, new historical dramas, and modern dramas on modern life, all of which were warmly welcomed by the audience.

The more popular and famous types of theater are: Beijing opera, Kunqu opera, Yueju opera, Yu opera, Hunan opera, Cantonese opera, Qin opera, Sichuan opera, opera, Jin opera, Han opera, Chao opera, Fujian opera, Hebei opera, Huangmei opera, Hunan flower-drum opera ...... and so on more than fifty types of theater, especially the Beijing opera is the most popular, throughout the country, not limited by region.

China's folk runway

"T" stage dressed in ancient costumes on the beautiful fashion show models, *** overflowing pop singers combined into a simple, mysterious, vivid new scene.

An avant-garde modern fashion style, a unique chic landscape, presented in front of the modern people.

Each performance reinterprets the splendor of classical Chinese costumes and the cultural connotations of ancient art.

Chinese Folk Architecture Garden

The art of Chinese garden architecture is the most distinctive in the world culture, which has developed together with other disciplines of traditional Chinese culture.

It has gone through a historical development process of more than two thousand years, and has extremely rich literary and aesthetic connotations.

Its development can be roughly divided into three periods: the pre-Qin and Qin-Han period of the "natural period", this period is from the "囿" to the "court" of the development of the period, which is characterized by Covering a wide area, the project is huge, artificial facilities increased; Tang and Song period of the formation of classical gardens, by the Han Dynasty began the process of development of Chinese gardens, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, Wei Jin North and South Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty transition to the unification of China, the development of gardens appeared in two features, one in the construction of the Court of the attention to the role of play and enjoy the scenery; the second is the development of painting techniques and the development of the art of gardening to promote each other.

The outstanding achievement of the formation period is the combination of gardening and literature, painting.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of Chinese classical gardens, and by this time, the art of Chinese garden architecture was characterized by three features: full functionality, multiple forms, and artistry.

Chinese Folk Furniture

Chinese Folk Furniture is an important part of Chinese culture, is a "wooden creation of a beautiful poem", its long history, a self-contained system, with a strong national characteristics of style and Chinese characteristics.

Ancient Chinese furniture development to the Tang Dynasty, with the popularity of the way to sit with feet, chairs, stools furniture developed to the Song Dynasty high type of furniture stereotypes, indoor furnishings bundle, chairs, several, the case, the craft technology has become more mature.

The Ming and Qing dynasties is the golden period of traditional Chinese furniture; not only thousands of lines of lacquer decorated furniture developed to an unprecedented historical peak, but also produced a mature and prominent in the history of China's ancient furniture, Ming-style furniture and the rich excellence of the Qing-style furniture.

Ming and Qing furniture are high-grade hardwood as the main material, abandoned thousands of years of traditional Chinese furniture has always been used in the production of lacquer processing methods, to the wood's own elegant materials, natural texture and glossy color, so that the furniture produced - a new charm, quality and unique aesthetic value, and the use of superb craftsmanship, so that the construction of the furniture to achieve the perfect combination of science and technology, and thus the history of the world's furniture. In the history of the world furniture has set up a monument of light and glittering eyes.

Chinese folk costumes

Chinese national costumes are varied and colorful, and are the concrete embodiment of the traditional culture and aesthetic consciousness of the nation. During the long process of historical development, different ethnic groups living in different regions have created and formed their own different dress customs, which occupy an important position in the composition of national folklore.

The national costume focuses on the national culture, and is one of the important external features that distinguish a nation.

Chinese folk jewelry

In this large land of China, there are ancient peoples who have lived for thousands of years.

These ancient peoples, diligent and wise, created many folk ethnic jewelry.

The world's oldest folk jewelry is preserved to this day.

My China Folk Art Network shows the best of folk art jewelry.

Many people look at it and express their heartfelt admiration for Chinese ethnic folk art