Articles with China characteristics

China's dough sculpture art was recorded as early as the Han Dynasty, and "kite" has a history of more than 2,000 years in China, especially after the Tang Dynasty. "New Year pictures" began with the ancient "door-god pictures" in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, which was officially called New Year pictures. On the folk spring day, there is a custom that officials in spring send "pictures of spring cows" to indicate a bumper harvest. "Embroidery", called needle embroidery in ancient times, is a process of drawing colored lines with embroidery needles, embroidering textiles with needles according to designed patterns, and forming patterns with embroidery marks. Various shapes made of sucrose and maltose include figures, animals, flowers and plants. It is said that in the Song Dynasty, sugar people were mostly flat, just like today's Tang Hua, which was called drama candy. Later, it was called thick sugar gourd, sugar blowing mapo, swinging thick sugar, sugar suitable for mother, sugar official, sugar pagoda, sugar turtle and so on.

Shadow play was first born in the Western Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, also known as sheepskin play, commonly known as head play and shadow play. It originated in Shaanxi, China, matured in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in Hebei in the Qing Dynasty. "Woodcarving" The woodcarving art in China originated in the Neolithic Age, and woodcarving fish appeared in the harmonious culture in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province more than 7,000 years ago. The woodcarving skills in Qin and Han dynasties tended to be mature, and the painting and carving skills were exquisite and perfect. The appearance of colored woodcarving indicates that the ancient woodcarving technology has reached the corresponding level. Tianjin clay figurine Zhang Caisu is a popular folk art. Founded in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, it has a history of 180 years. Chinese knots, New Year pictures, all kinds of chopsticks, bamboo crafts, Tibetan pendants, panda-patterned items, all kinds of crystal ornaments ... paper-cut, calligraphy and painting, thread-bound books, longevity locks, sugar dolls, sugar-coated haws, (more and more, have developed into China's small musical instruments, such as flutes and cucurbits, masks, bonsai and antiques. ..