What are the traditional handicraft skills?

Traditional skills mainly include: paper-cutting, pottery, New Year pictures, shadow play, embroidery and so on.

1, paper cutting

Paper-cutting is a world-class intangible cultural heritage of China folk handicrafts. It inherits a continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, and expresses the social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public. It has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

2. Ceramic art

Ceramic art, in a broad sense, is an art form combining traditional ancient culture with modern art in China. From the historical development, we can know that "ceramic art" is a comprehensive art, which has experienced a complicated and long process of cultural accumulation. It is closely related to painting, sculpture, design and other arts and crafts.

3. New Year pictures

The New Year picture is a kind of painting in China, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting" and is one of the folk crafts in China. New Year pictures are unique to China, and they are also an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name.

4. Shadow play

Shadow play is an ancient traditional folk art in China, and old Beijingers call it "donkey shadow play". According to historical records, shadow play began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and spread to West Asia and Europe in the Yuan Dynasty. It has a long history.

5. Embroidery

Embroidery is one of the traditional folk handicrafts in China, which has a history of at least two or three thousand years in China. Chinese embroidery mainly includes Su embroidery, Xiang embroidery, Shu embroidery and Yue embroidery. Embroidery techniques include: wrong needle embroidery, disorderly needle embroidery, net embroidery, ground embroidery, silk locking, silk picking, brocade picking, Ping Jin, shadow gold, plate gold, velvet laying, velvet scraping, yarn poking, thread sprinkling and flower picking.