What folk crafts are there in Yunnan?

Jianshui purple pottery, Jianchuan wood carving, tooth carving products, batik, embroidery, etc.

1, Jianshui Zitao

Jianshui Purple Peach, a specialty of Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, is a symbolic product of China's national geography.

Jianshui Tao Tao Mud is taken from Colorful Mountain in China with high iron content, which makes the finished product have high hardness and strength, and the surface is rich in metallic texture, with the sound of stone striking. After unglazed polishing, fine grinding and polishing, the texture is delicate and bright as a mirror.

It has the reputation of "as firm as iron, as bright as water, as moist as jade and as clear as sound". Jianshui pottery pays attention to meticulous work, especially to decoration. It takes calligraphy and painting seal cutting and colored clay inlay as the main means, and integrates decorative arts such as calligraphy and painting, epigraphy, seal cutting and inlay.

Jianshui pottery integrates practicality and appreciation, including pots, cups, cans, bowls, dishes, cans, steamers, pipes, Four Treasures of the Study and other products.

2065438+July 2006, the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved the protection of geographical indication products of Jianshui Zitao.

2. Jianchuan woodcarving

Jianchuan woodcarving is a kind of woodcarving handicraft technology, which originated in Jianchuan County, Dali Prefecture and began in the tenth century. After absorbing the culture and production technology of the Han nationality and other nationalities, the Bai people have gradually formed unique and exquisite skills.

Wood carving is mainly used for architectural decoration, mainly in relief, and has now developed into a wood carving handicraft with high artistic value.

3. Tooth carving products

Yunnan famous specialty. Kunming has a long history of ivory carving. Before liberation, many shops dealt in ivory products, mainly producing stamps, chopsticks, hairpin flowers, bracelets and other general daily necessities.

After liberation, ivory carving has developed greatly, and high-grade ornamental tooth carving crafts have become the main products. Most of them are based on myths and legends, classical literary masterpieces, such as Tiannv Scattered Flowers, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, etc.

There are also works with flowers and birds and landscapes as themes, such as peacock graceful and restrained, pigeon peony and so on. The "word group image" of plane sculpture is unique in domestic ivory micro-sculpture. Old artists carved words on a small ivory piece that were difficult to be recognized by the naked eye, forming various vivid portraits, which were praised by people at home and abroad.

Step 4 batik

Batik is an ancient traditional textile printing and dyeing handicraft of ethnic minorities in China, which was called wax in ancient times. Tie-dyeing and openwork printing are also called the three major printing technologies in ancient China.

Guizhou, Yunnan Miao, Buyi and other nationalities are good at batik. Batik is to draw flowers on the cloth with a wax knife dipped in melted wax, and then dipped in indigo. When the wax is removed, the surface of the cloth presents various patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background. At the same time, in the dip dyeing, the wax as a resist naturally cracks, which makes the cloth surface show a special "ice grain", which is particularly eye-catching.

Because batik is rich in patterns, elegant in color and unique in style, it is simple and elegant, fresh and pleasing to the eye, and full of national characteristics when used to make clothes and various practical articles for life.

Step 5 Embroider with flowers

Embroidery is a traditional folk handicraft. Many minority women in Yunnan are good at this craft, which is sold in Kunming, Stone Forest in southern Shandong, Dali and other scenic spots.

There are many ways to pick flowers, including single-sided picking and double-sided picking; There are plain and colored silk threads. There are also picking, embroidering and mending on the same products. The patterns of flower picking include landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish.

After ingenious description, curtains, handkerchiefs, tablecloths, satchels, clothes, tiger's head shoes, cat's head shoes, backpacks and other items have all added vivid decoration, which makes people fondle, and is favored by Chinese and foreign tourists.

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