What traditional folk arts are there in Nanjing?

Organized by Nanjing Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Nanjing Folk Writers Association, Nanjing traditional handicraft art lasted for five years, and 55 outstanding local traditional handicraft skills were carefully selected, and their historical origin, distribution scope, craft characteristics, production skills, value charm and development status were studied and presented. Among them, people are familiar with brocade, lanterns, paper-cuts, kites, diabolos, faces, knots, stone carvings, Jinling scriptures, gold foil, dragon dance props and so on. And there are many little-known local handicraft skills, such as hanging doormats, hairy monkeys and cicadas, Nanjing clay figurines and farm stove paintings. , but like Nanjing Ben, land and water paintings, paper horse products, bamboo toys.

This book embodies the painstaking efforts and achievements of Nanjing folk artists in the general survey of folk art resources for many years. Among the authors who participated in the general survey of traditional handicraft art, there are experts and scholars such as university professors and museum researchers, as well as cadres of functional organs, grassroots folk artists and cultural volunteers.

Nanjing traditional handicraft art

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value

This book covers all kinds of traditional handicraft arts in Nanjing at present, and brings together the essence of local traditional handicraft arts, which has strong academic value and data value. To a certain extent, this book fills the research gap in this field in China, promotes and displays the traditional culture of Nanjing, and makes contributions to further rescue, protect and inherit the excellent folk culture of the nation.

Nanjing traditional handicraft art

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Features are highly original.

A considerable part of the written content described in this book has never been studied or published before, so its historical and academic value is relatively high;

There is systematic information.

This book has selected 55 local arts and crafts, all of which are quite representative, basically covering all the major categories of traditional handicraft art in Nanjing at present, and gathering the essence of local traditional handicraft art, which can be described as a grand view;

It is very readable.

This book attempts to restore the original boring traditional handicraft skills to readers through easy-to-understand expressions such as illustrations, which is not only elegant and popular, but also has important practical significance for inheriting and protecting these handicraft skills in the future.