What are the most characteristic Chinese things?

1, Chinese knot

Chinese knot is a unique Chinese hand-woven crafts, it shows the sentiment and wisdom is one of the sides of the ancient Chinese civilization. It was originally used in the Paleolithic era for sewing and knotting, and then developed into the rituals of the Han Dynasty, and then evolved into today's decorative crafts.

The jade worn by Zhou Dynasty people was often decorated with Chinese knots, and there were Chinese knot patterns on the bronze vessels in the Warring States period, which continued into the Qing Dynasty when Chinese knots really became a folk art. Contemporary Chinese knots are often used to decorate interiors, as gifts for friends and relatives, and as personal accessories.

Because of its symmetrical and delicate appearance, it can represent China's long history, and conforms to the customs and aesthetic concepts of traditional Chinese decorations, so it is named Chinese knot.

There are many kinds of Chinese knots, such as the double money knot, button knot, pipa knot, regimental brocade knot, cross knot, lucky knot, ten thousand character knot, disk long knot, alga knot, double knot, brocade bag knot, etc. The Chinese knot represents unity, happiness and peace. The Chinese knot represents unity, happiness and peace, especially in folklore, and its exquisite workmanship is loved by the public.

2. Chopsticks

Chopsticks, which are commonly used as eating utensils in China, are usually made of bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic and other materials. It is one of the commonly used tableware in the world and one of the symbols of Chinese food culture. It was invented in China and later spread to the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Vietnam and other Chinese cultural circles.

Chinese people are accustomed to using chopsticks, while people in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent use their fingers to grasp them. The earliest chopsticks found in China are copper chopsticks unearthed at Yinxu in Anyang City, Henan Province.

3, blue and white porcelain

Blue and white porcelain, also known as blue and white porcelain, often referred to as blue and white, Chinese ceramics firing process treasures. Is one of the mainstream varieties of Chinese porcelain, underglaze colored porcelain.

The blue and white porcelain is made of cobalt oxide cobalt ore as raw material, in ceramic blanks on the depiction of decorations, and then covered with a layer of transparent glaze, the high temperature reduction flame fired at once. The cobalt material is blue after firing, with strong coloring power, bright color, high firing rate, stable color characteristics.

The original blue and white porcelain in the Tang and Song dynasties has seen the beginning of the mature blue and white porcelain appeared in the Yuan Dynasty Hutian kiln in Jingdezhen. Ming dynasty blue and white became the mainstream of porcelain. The development reached its peak during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Ming and qing dynasties, also created the blue and white five-color, peacock green glaze blue and white, bean green glaze blue and white, blue and red color, yellow ground blue and white, brother glaze blue and white and other derivatives.

4, shadow play

Shadow Puppets (Shadow Puppets), also known as the "shadow play" or "light and shadow play", is a kind of animal skin or cardboard made of silhouettes of characters to perform the story of folk theater.

When performing, the artists behind a white curtain, while manipulating the shadow people, while using the local popular tunes to tell the story, accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, with a strong local flavor. Its popularity is extremely wide, and because of the different voices performed in different parts of the world, a wide variety of shadow plays have been formed.

Shadow play is an ancient Chinese traditional folk art, which the old Beijingers called "donkey shadow". 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 during the Yuan Dynasty, so it can be said to have a long history and a long history.

5, Peking Opera

Peking Opera, once known as Ping Opera, one of China's five major operatic genres, the scene layout focus on writing, the cadence to the western skin, Erhuang-based, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums and other accompaniment, is regarded as China's national treasure, the Chinese opera, the three Dingjia "top of the list".

Hui Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the 55th year of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the original performance in the south of the three celebrations, four happy, Chuntai, and spring, the four Huizhou Opera classes entered Beijing one after another. the four Huizhou classes entered Beijing one after another.

They cooperated with the Han tune artists from Hubei, and at the same time accepted part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu and Qinqiang, absorbed some local folk tunes, and finally formed Peking Opera through continuous exchanges and integration. After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of the Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China gained unprecedented prosperity.

Peking Opera has traveled all over the world, with its distribution centered in Beijing and spreading throughout China, becoming an important medium for introducing and spreading traditional Chinese art and culture. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Knot

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Chopsticks (Chinese traditional tableware)

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The Chinese traditional art form of Peking Opera is known as the "Peking opera".

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