What does traditional craft mean?

Traditional craft is an important part of China art. It has many forms, mainly including firing, casting and forging, dyeing and weaving, knitting, woodwork, painting and sculpture. China craftsmen use different materials to create colorful and wonderful handicrafts. Extended information arts and crafts refer to' arts and crafts' with unique artistic style made by manual labor. It is different from the arts and crafts of mass production of standardized daily-use handicrafts by means of large-scale industrial mechanization.

Handicrafts refer to products made by hand or tools. Mechanical tools can be used, but only if the direct manual labor of craftsmen is still the main source of finished products.

Faced with the decline of traditional handicrafts, a wide-ranging "handicraft revival movement" began in the west in the 1960s and 1970s. As a cultural trend of thought, the revival of handicrafts can not fundamentally change the general trend of social production, but it fully affirms the status and role of handicrafts in people's lives; At the same time, it inspires people to think further about how to avoid the harm of industrialization to the social and cultural environment.