Characteristics of Folk Crafts in China

Characteristics of folk crafts in China;

① Harmony. China's traditional artistic thought attaches importance to the relationship between people and things, utility and beauty, literature and quality, form and spirit, heart and hand, material and art, and advocates "harmony" and "appropriateness". The pursuit of the ideal realm of "harmony" and "appropriateness" makes China arts and crafts present a high degree of harmony; The material form of appearance and the spiritual meaning of connotation are harmonious and unified, practicality and aesthetics are harmonious and unified, perceptual relationship and rational norms are harmonious and unified, and material technology and artistic structure are harmonious and unified.

Symbolic. China's craft thought has always attached importance to the influence of creation on ethics. It emphasizes the connection between the sensory pleasure of things and the emotional satisfaction of aesthetics, and requires this connection to conform to ethical norms. Constrained by a strong ethical consciousness, China's traditional craft creation usually contains specific meanings, and often symbolically expresses ethical concepts through modeling, volume, scale, color or ornamentation. This symbolic pursuit often reduces the arts and crafts of the court or literati to the display of pure ethical concepts, resulting in the destruction of posturing or utilitarian effects. In contrast, more folk arts and crafts symbolized by the producer's own utilitarian will are vigorous, unpretentious and full of vitality.

3 agile. China's craft thought advocates the unity of mind and matter, requires "handy", "quality is human, and the image is yin and yang", which fully embodies the life spirit of the subject in his creation. China's traditional craft creation has always maintained the S-shaped structure paradigm in modeling and decoration. This structural paradigm is full of the rhythm of life and endless sense of movement, which makes China's craft works actively change in strict norms, sparse and ethereal.

4 natural interest. China's craft thought attaches great importance to the natural quality of craft materials, advocates "managing materials with materials" and "applying arts with materials", and requires "shaping with materials and applying arts with quality". China traditional arts and crafts always respect the stipulation of materials in modeling or decoration, and make full use of or show the natural beauty of materials. This excellent craftsman has made China's craft creation have natural, naive, quiet and elegant tastes and feelings.

⑤ Skills. Emphasizing and attaching importance to technology is a consistent tradition of arts and crafts in China. Rich creative practice makes craftsmen pay attention to the aesthetic effect of the craft and consciously pursue the aesthetic ideal realm of the craft in two different interest directions: the natural craft of deliberately carving traces and the unique lacquer carving craft.