Chinese knots and other items containing China folk culture.

Kites, clay figurines, paper-cutting, embroidery, dough figurines, etc.

1, kite

Kites were invented by working people in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which has been more than 2,000 years since. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop, and was the earliest origin of human kites.

Later, Lu Ban used bamboo to improve kite materials in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into today's multi-line kites. It is said that Mozi is a wooden kite, which took three years to form and was lost in one day.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, kites began to be a tool for transmitting information. Since Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the development of paper industry, people began to use paper to paste kites. Flying kites became a popular outdoor activity in the Song Dynasty.

2. Clay figurine

Clay figurine dough figurine is an ancient traditional folk art in China, commonly known as kneading dough figurine. It uses soil and clay as the main materials, mixing them into different colors, and shaping various vivid images with hands and simple tools.

Because of its rich colors and vivid shapes, it is widely circulated among the people in China and deeply loved by people. Noodles are usually made and sold in the streets.

In the old society, dough sculptors "walked around in tears just to make a living", carrying boxes, walking around villages and towns and doing things in the streets, and were instantly loved by the masses, but their works were regarded as gadgets and could not be put on the elegant stage.

Nowadays, dough sculpture art is valued as a precious intangible cultural heritage, and gadgets have also entered the art hall. Dough sculpture is a simple but artistic folk handicraft.

It uses flour and glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials, and adds pigments and other ingredients to make soft dough of various colors after anti-crack and anti-mildew treatment.

Step 3 cut paper

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities.

It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses the social identity, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, and has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28th to1October 2nd, 65438, the Chinese paper-cut project declared by China was selected into the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

Step 4 Embroidery

Chinese embroidery, also known as silk embroidery and needle embroidery, is one of the outstanding national traditional crafts in China. China is the first country in the world to discover and use silk. Four or five thousand years ago, people began to raise silkworms for reeling.

With the use of silk, the appearance and development of silk fabrics, embroidery technology has gradually emerged. According to the chapter and clothing system recorded in Shangshu four thousand years ago, it is stipulated that "clothes are embroidered with paintings".

In the Song Dynasty, the fashion of advocating embroidery clothing gradually became popular among the people, which also promoted the development of silk embroidery technology in China. The four famous embroideries in China are Su embroidery, Yue embroidery, Xiang embroidery and Shu embroidery.

Step 5 face people

Mianren, also known as Mianren, Nianmo and Mianren, is a simple but artistic folk handicraft in China. China's dough sculpture art was recorded in writing as early as the Han Dynasty.

It uses flour and glutinous rice flour as the main raw materials, plus pigments, paraffin wax, honey and other ingredients, and makes soft dough of various colors after crack-proof and mildew-proof treatment.

The dough-kneading artist takes materials at will as needed, and after several times of kneading, rubbing and lifting in his hands, he skillfully places, cuts, carves, describes and shapes his body, hands and head with a small bamboo knife, and puts on hair ornaments and clothes, so that he can get rid of the vivid artistic image in an instant.

In 2008, it was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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