What are the aesthetic characteristics of traditional crafts?

In the long years of development, the Chinese nation has created a unique, elegant and eternal craft creation style for the history of human craft culture with diligence and wisdom. China's arts and crafts are saturated with the cultural spirit and aesthetic consciousness of the Chinese nation, and have distinct aesthetic personality, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: the traditional artistic thought of harmonious China attaches importance to the relationship between man and things, utility and beauty, literature, form and spirit, heart and hand, things and art, and advocates "harmony" and "appropriateness". The pursuit of the ideal realm of "harmony" and "appropriateness" makes China arts and crafts present a high degree of harmony; The material form of appearance and the spiritual meaning of connotation are harmonious and unified, practicality and aesthetics are harmonious and unified, perceptual relationship and rational norms are harmonious and unified, and material technology and artistic structure are harmonious and unified. China's craft thought has always attached importance to the influence of creation on ethics. It emphasizes the connection between the sensory pleasure of things and the emotional satisfaction of aesthetics, and requires this connection to conform to ethical norms. Constrained by a strong ethical consciousness, China's traditional craft creation usually contains specific meanings, and often symbolically expresses ethical concepts through modeling, volume, scale, color or ornamentation. This symbolic pursuit often makes the arts and crafts of the court or literati show pure ethical concepts, resulting in a pretentious state or damage to utilitarian effects. In contrast, more folk arts and crafts symbolized by the producer's own utilitarian will are vigorous, unpretentious and full of vitality. The agile China's craft thought advocates the unity of mind and matter, requires "handy" and "quality is human, and the literary image is yin and yang", so that the creation fully embodies the life spirit of the subject. China's traditional craft creation has always maintained the S-shaped structure paradigm in modeling and decoration. This structural paradigm is full of the rhythm of life and endless sense of movement, which makes China's craft works actively change in strict norms, sparse and ethereal. China's artistic thought attaches great importance to the naturalness of craft materials, advocates "managing materials" and "applying art with materials", and requires "shaping with objects and applying art with molds". China traditional arts and crafts always respect the stipulation of materials in modeling or decoration, and make full use of or show the natural beauty of materials. This excellent craftsman has made China's craft creation have natural, naive, quiet and elegant tastes and feelings. Craftsman spirit emphasizes and attaches importance to processing technology, which is a consistent tradition of Chinese arts and crafts. Rich creative practice makes craftsmen pay attention to the aesthetic effect of the craft and consciously pursue the aesthetic ideal realm of the craft in two different interest directions: the natural craft of deliberately carving traces and the unique lacquer carving craft.