What are the folk crafts in Yunnan?

Jianshui Purple Pottery, Jianchuan Wood Carving, Tooth Carving Products, Batik, Picked Embroidery and so on.

1, jianshui purple pottery

jianshui purple pottery, jianshui county, yunnan province specialties, China's national geographic indications products.

Jianshui pottery clay from the territory of the five-color mountain, high iron content, so that the hardness of the ware, high strength, the surface is rich in metallic texture, knocking with the sound of gold and stone. After unglazed polishing, fine grinding and polishing, fine texture, bright as a mirror.

It has the reputation of "firm as iron, bright as water, moist as jade, sound as chime". Jianshui ceramics pay attention to fine work, especially focusing on decoration, it is the main means of calligraphy and painting, color clay inlay filling, set calligraphy and painting, goldstone, engraving, inlay, and other decorative arts in one.

Jianshui pottery combines practicality and ornamental features, with products such as pots, cups, basins, bowls, plates, cylinders, vaporizers, pipes, and scholar's objects.

In July 2016, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) approved the implementation of geographical indication product protection for Jianshui Purple Pottery.

2, Jianchuan wood carving

Jianchuan wood carving is a wood carving handicraft technique, produced in Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture, began in the tenth century AD. Bai people absorbed the culture and production technology of the Han and other ethnic groups, and gradually formed a unique and exquisite skills.

Wood carvings are mainly used for building decoration, with more relief carvings, and have now developed into wood carving crafts with high artistic value.

3, ivory carvings

Yunnan specialty products. Kunming ivory carving has a long history, before the liberation of business ivory products stores, mainly producing stamps, chopsticks, hairpins, bracelets and other general daily necessities.

After the liberation, ivory carving has developed greatly, and high-grade ivory crafts for appreciation have become the main products. Most of the material from myths and legends, classical literature, such as the heavenly maiden, Chang'e moon, the cowherd and the weaving maiden and so on.

There are also birds and flowers, landscapes as the theme of the works, such as peacock grace, pigeon peony. Plane carving "word group like" in the domestic ivory micro-carving is unique, the old artists in a very small piece of ivory carving out the text is not easily recognized by the naked eye, composed of a variety of realistic image of the characters, for the domestic and foreign people praised.

4, batik

Batik, is China's ancient ethnic minority folk traditional textile printing and dyeing crafts, the ancient name of the wax, and stranded val (tie-dyeing), clip val (openwork printing) and known as China's ancient three major printing techniques.

Guizhou, Yunnan Miao, Buyi and other ethnic groups specialize in batik. Batik is a wax knife dipped in molten wax to draw flowers on the cloth after the indigo dyeing, both dyeing and wax, the cloth shows a variety of patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background, at the same time, in the dyeing and dipping, as a dyeing agent, the wax naturally cracked, so that the cloth shows a special "ice pattern", especially charming.

Since batik has rich patterns, plain hues and unique styles, it is used to make clothing and all kinds of daily necessities, which is simple and generous, fresh and pleasing to the eyes, and rich in national characteristics.

5, pick flower embroidery

Pick flower embroidery is a traditional folk crafts, many ethnic minority women in Yunnan are good at this craft, in Kunming, Lunan Shilin, Dali and other scenic areas are sold.

Picked flowers in a variety of ways, there are single-sided picking, double-sided picking; there are plain picking, colorful silk thread picking; there are also in the same product on the picking and embroidery have to make up. Pick pattern has landscape figures, birds, flowers, insects and fish.

Thousands of threads depicted by skilled women, so that the curtains, handkerchiefs, tablecloths, satchels, clothes, tiger shoes, cat shoes, backpacks and other items on the addition of a lifelike decorations, people love, favored by tourists from home and abroad.

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