What are the main elements of the ancient Chinese forms of arts and crafts?

First of all, we need to understand, what is ancient Chinese arts and crafts?

Ancient Chinese arts and crafts is a general term for the artificial artifacts created by the Chinese people under different historical conditions using various material materials and craftsmanship techniques in order to satisfy their material and spiritual needs. It is an important part of the plastic arts of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the general essential characteristics of arts and crafts, but also maintains the unity of practicality and aesthetics in terms of connotation and form, and shows the distinctive character of the Chinese national culture itself. Chinese arts and crafts, with its long history, distinctive style, superb skills and rich and varied forms, has written a chapter full of wisdom and spiritual light for the history of cultural creation of the whole mankind. Arts and crafts have the attributes of both material civilization and spiritual civilization. Although it is not pure art, and its creation does not aim at shocking people's hearts or moralizing, its influence on human beings is by no means less than that of pure art. Because people can not appreciate pure art, but do not have to specifically appreciate it, but it is always in a constant supply of formal language, subconsciously cultivate the basic aesthetic consciousness of people, like the shadow of the shadow of the ultimate aesthetic judgment of people. Ancient Chinese arts and crafts have long been renowned as a vehicle for the spread of Chinese civilization, and when people outside of China use Chinese arts and crafts, they are also aware of Chinese civilization in a subtle way. （

The term "arts and crafts" refers to traditional arts and crafts with a long tradition of skills, rich in local and national characteristics, and reflecting the spirit of classical Chinese culture, whose main categories are firing, calcining, dyeing and weaving, weaving, carving, carpentry, painting, and so on.