What are some of the best Chinese folkloric activities?

1, stilt-walking

is one of China's traditional folk activities. Stilt-walking is commonly known as binding firewood feet, also known as "stilts", "stepping on stilts", "tie high feet", "walking high legs", is a popular mass skill show in northern China. It is a kind of mass skill performance which is popular among the folk in the north of China, and it is performed in some folk festivals by the dancers with long wooden stilts tied to their feet.

The stilt-walking is highly skilled, lively and diversified, and is very popular among the masses. Its performance is divided into "cultural stilts" and "martial arts stilts". Cultural stilts are heavy on playing the elephant and twisting and teasing, while martial arts stilts emphasize personal skills and tricks, and stilts from all over the world have formed distinctive regional styles and national colors.

2, face-changing

Sichuan Opera is one of the Chinese opera genres, popular in the east-central Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou, Yunnan part of the region. Sichuan opera face-changing, is an important part of the performing art of Sichuan opera, is the successive generations of Sichuan opera artists **** with the creation and inheritance of folk art treasures, in 1987, the Ministry of Culture formally issued a document, will be listed as the Sichuan opera face-changing art of the state level two classified, which is also the only one of China's theater industry, a state secret.

3, shadow play

Also known as "shadow play" or "lamp shadow play", it is a kind of folk theater that performs stories with silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard. When performing, the artists behind a white curtain, while manipulating the shadow people, while using the local popular tunes to tell the story, accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, has a strong local flavor.

The scope of its popularity is extremely wide, and a wide variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different vocal cadences performed in different parts of the country.

4. Sugar Man

The making of sugar man is a traditional Chinese handicraft, and the makers all carry a stretcher with a heating stove at one end and sugar and tools at the other. The sugar is made from heated cane sugar and maltose, and is brownish-yellow in color, while some add pigments or coloring to make it red or green.

Control of the heat is key to the production process, as overheating will make it too thin and easy to deform, while cold will make it too hard to mold. The tools used are simple, mostly spoon and spatula.

5, the mud man face painting

Mud man face painting is an ancient traditional folk art in China, commonly known as the pinch face. It is clay clay as the main material, mixed into different colors, with hands and simple tools, shaping a variety of lifelike image. Because of its rich colors and vivid shapes, it has been widely spread in Chinese folklore and is very popular among people. The face painting is usually made and sold on the spot in the streets and alleys.

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