What traditional handicrafts are disappearing in China?

Many traditional handicrafts are disappearing, such as embroidery, making handmade lanterns, making benches and bookshelves and so on.

When their mother was young, they were proud to show beautiful curtains, quilt covers and pillowcases when they got married. Those lifelike flowers, birds, fish and insects can jump out from under a needle and thread. It's really a beautiful work of art. At that time, most girls, whether educated or small jasper, could embroider. The styles are different all over the country, and the principles are similar. Guangdong has Guangdong embroidery, Sichuan has Shu embroidery, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang have Suzhou embroidery. But now it's all white-haired people who will shuttle carefully. Without young people, there is no inheritance and it is lost.

Chris Lee seems to have a song that can sing Shu embroidery, but she only knows how to sing it. There are not many people among the people who can do this job. In the propaganda film of Beijing's Olympic bid, we also introduced a lot of culture and art in this respect to foreigners. However, that will stay at that time. Few children can learn now. It only takes a generation and it will be lost.

And handmade lanterns. In the small place where I live, only one family is still doing this job. He is a large and small family, but how can they resist the torrent of the times? Sooner or later, it will be eliminated by society. Because industrialization has a great impact on this traditional craft, why do so many expensive people need to do what a machine can do in a few minutes? This is the contradiction of the whole era.

Also, our parents always made their own stools, big beds and wardrobes when they were young. Because commercialization was not so developed in the past, it was faster to make it yourself than to buy it, so many men have this craft. Now, you can't find such a person in the crowd, even a doctoral student.