What are the traditional crafts in China?

1. Paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities.

2. Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, which is often called "folk craft". Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving and relief carving. Wood carving is a kind of work separated from carpentry, which is classified as "joinery" in China.

Folk art varieties classified by carving materials. Generally, nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, agarwood, mahogany, longan and other excellent and tough tree species are selected.

3. Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", is a folk drama in which people made of animal skins or cardboard perform stories. During the performance, the artists manipulated the shadow puppeteers behind the white curtain, telling stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. Its popularity is extremely extensive, and various shadow plays are formed due to different voices played in different places.

4. Clay sculpture, commonly known as "colored sculpture", is an ancient and common folk art in China folk tradition. That is, folk handicrafts that shape clay into various images. The production method is to mix a little cotton fiber into the clay, tamp it evenly, knead it into mud blanks with various patterns, dry it in the shade, coat it with base powder, and then color it. It is an ancient and common Han folk art in China.

5. Seal cutting originated from Shang Dynasty. It is a combination of calligraphy (mainly seal script) and seal cutting (including chiseling and casting). It is an art used to make seals and a unique art form of Chinese characters. Seal cutting can be divided into Zhou Xi seal, Qin and Han official seal, etc.