china's traditional folk art

? China folk traditional skills include: paper-cutting, pottery, New Year pictures, shadow play, face changing, embroidery, clay sculpture, wood carving, dragon dancing, opera and so on.

China's traditional folk arts and crafts have been handed down by the people of China. For example, paper-cutting is one of the most popular traditional folk decorative arts in China with a long history. Because of its easy materials, low cost, obvious effect, wide adaptability, diverse styles and vivid images, it is widely popular. Because it is most suitable for rural women's leisure production, it can be used as a practical object and beautify their lives.

Paper-cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed different local styles. Paper-cutting not only shows the aesthetic taste of the public, but also contains the deep social psychology of the nation. It is also one of the most distinctive folk arts in China, and its modeling features are particularly worth studying. As the embodiment of China's original philosophy, folk paper-cutting has the characteristics of comprehensiveness, beautification and auspiciousness. At the same time, folk paper-cutting conveys the connotation and essence of traditional culture with its own specific expression language.

New Year picture

A Chinese painting. Door-god paintings, which began in ancient times, were officially called New Year pictures in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. It is a unique painting school in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks.

The main producing areas are Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Weifang in Shandong. There are New Year pictures with monthly cards in Shanghai, and other places include Sichuan, Fujian, Shanxi, Hebei and even Zhejiang. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods.

Traditional New Year pictures are mainly woodcut watermarks, which pursue simple style and lively atmosphere, so the lines are simple and the colors are bright. The content includes flowers and birds, fat children, golden roosters, spring cattle, myths and legends, historical stories and so on. It expresses people's longing for a bumper harvest and a happy life, and has strong national characteristics and local flavor.