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Foshan paper-cutting is a famous Chinese folk traditional art, originated in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has a history of more than 800 years.

Foshan paper-cutting would like to cut mainly, and then changed to knife carving. Mostly used for festivals and celebrations and daily and window, embroidery and carving patterns, trademarks, gifts, decorations and so on.

Foshan paper-cutting variety, according to the production of raw materials and methods are copper lining, paper lining, copper writing, copper chiseling, paper writing, silver writing, woodcut overprinting, dyeing and engraving, solid color and other categories. The use of local specialties such as color paper and copper foil, and the application of cutting, carving, chiseling and other techniques make Foshan paper-cutting diverse and highly decorative. It has the characteristics of rigorous composition, delicate lines, elegant and smooth, strong colors, brilliant, pearly, bright and colorful.

Foshan paper-cutting is unique in the art of paper-cutting in China, the works were selected for a number of national art exhibitions and the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition, and won a number of awards, but also often sent to foreign exhibitions. Giant paper-cut mural "Dream of Red Mansions", honored as "China's famous murals". Foshan paper-cut works as art decorations and tourist souvenirs, gifts, welcomed by people from all walks of life in China and abroad. Colorful lanterns, Foshan folk called lamp color. Foshan lamp color is one of the main schools of traditional Chinese colored lantern art, with the characteristics of southern China's delicate and beautiful colored lanterns, the Ming and Qing dynasties of the history of the early detailed records.

The Foshan lanterns are mainly made of bamboo, wire and other materials, which are handmade and shaped by hand, and then lined with various colors of silk fabric, lace, colorful spangles, and lined with Foshan's unique paper-cutting patterns of gold and blue, or painted on the silk poems and paintings.

Foshan lights color is the main decoration of festivals and various celebrations, has been from the original indoor art to square art, from a single work to the scale of the combination. There are dozens of meters to thousands of meters of large colorful dragons, there are various specifications of the pavilion and pavilion modeling and a variety of folk stories of large groups of lights and a variety of characters, animals, birds, flowers, insects and fish, melons and fruits modeling lamps and so on. With the traditional workmanship and modeling novel, fine, exquisite, colorful, colorful, colorful during the day, the night through the bright, brilliant features.

Foshan Folk Art Research Society designed and produced the "big colorful dragon", "colorful dragon", "Tenglong", "traditional colorful lanterns", and other colorful lanterns have won the four world's most records.

The artistic influence of Foshan lanterns and colors spreads both at home and abroad, and Foshan is known as the "hometown of colored dragons". Foshan Folk Art Research Society of colored lanterns, colored cars, colored boat art is full of color, Foshan lamps and colors were twice selected for the national postal stamps. Foshan autumn color originated in the two Jin dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. After the autumn harvest, in order to thank the gods and repay the nature for the good year, people gradually formed the famous Foshan Autumn Colors Competition, which is called "Autumn Colors". Foshan Autumn Colors Crafts also got its name from this. Foshan Autumn Color is the most local characteristics of the large-scale folkloric folk entertainment activities in the southern part of the Lingnan region.

The Foshan Autumn Color contains two categories of Autumn Color Crafts Competition and Autumn Color Performing Arts, with colorful projects and a variety of forms. Divided from the form of expression, can be divided into lights color, car color, horse color, floating color, ground color, water color, scenery and other seven colors; production technology and performance forms including zazuzhu, masonry, framing plastic, carving batch, music, dance, drama, acrobatics, masquerade and other ten categories, is the mass of the masses to create, athletic competitions, performances and tours combined with the mass of comprehensive art. Autumn color crafts are mainly tie work crafts, antique crafts, flower crafts, fruit crafts, scale mealybug crafts and other five categories.

The biggest artistic feature of Foshan Autumn Color is that it is fake and has a strong local smell.

Foshan is the hometown of autumn color art. Foshan Folk Art Research Society has participated in many times in organizing "Autumn Color Exhibition" and "Autumn Color Parade", and its amazing and ingenious art makes the audience marvel. Foshan woodblock prints were first created in the Song Dynasty, with a history of more than seven hundred years. Ming and Qing dynasties, Foshan woodblock prints entered the peak period, Foshan, Guangdong and Tianjin Yangliuqing, Suzhou Peach Blossom Dock, Shandong Weifang gradually formed the "four major woodblock prints".

There are three kinds of Foshan woodblock prints: original, woodblock print, and Gongyin Gongbi, including door god, New Year's paintings, and deity paintings, with the door god as the main theme and a wide range of subjects, expressing the people's hopes and ideals.

Foshan woodblock prints absorb the essence of traditional crafts such as Foshan paper-cutting, copper chiseling and gold flower, gold lacquer wood carving, etc., and are printed in four-color woodblock overprints in red, green, yellow and black. The techniques of painting colors with brushwork and gold dust make the picture more magnificent and glittering; and the red dan is used to paint the bottom, which is a warm and colorful red and means good luck. The reddish color is warm and colorful, which means good luck. New Year's paintings coated with reddish color can resist rust and acid, and the color will not fade in the sun and rain. Therefore, it has the reputation of "perpetual red". Shiwan known as the "pottery capital of the South" reputation, under the Foshan City. Shiwan art ceramics commonly known as "Shiwan doll", "Shiwan doll" pottery art is known as "Pearl of Oriental Art", in the history of Chinese ceramic art occupies an irreplaceable position and role! The art of "Shiwan figurines" is known as the "Pearl of Oriental Art" and has an irreplaceable position and role in the history of Chinese ceramic art. Northern Song Dynasty, Shiwan pottery exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and the world, becoming one of the famous ceramic base in the south of China. The Ming and Qing dynasties have more "Shiwan tile, A world" reputation.

"Shiwan doll" ceramic art in kind on the form of: figures ceramic molding, animal ceramic molding, utensils, micro-plastic, tile ridge ceramic molding five categories. Represented by the figure-shaped Shiwan dolls both God, highly realistic and moderately exaggerated, making it interesting, good at absorbing the essence of various cultures and arts, the formation of a distinctive local style.

Therefore, Guo Moruo, a famous poet, once described Shiwan pottery with this poem - "Skillfully crafted with wonderful hands, Shiwan is a beautiful pottery bay".