What does traditional art include?

Traditional arts include painting, sculpture, architecture and arts and crafts.

China folk art is a popular art created by the people of China, which is applied in daily life to beautify the environment and enrich folk customs.

Folk art is an important factor in the artistic traditions of all ethnic groups and the source of all artistic forms. Painted pottery art in Neolithic Age, stone carvings, pottery figurines and portraits in Warring States and Qin and Han Dynasties have distinctive folk art characteristics in shape and style.

After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, literati and nobles became the leading figures in the painting world, but a large number of prints, New Year pictures, sculptures and murals were mainly made by folk craftsmen, while popular paper-cutting, peasant paintings, embroidery, printing and dyeing, clothing sewing and kites were directly made by the masses.

It also decorates, beautifies and enriches social life, expresses people's psychology, wishes, beliefs and moral concepts, and has been continuously innovated and developed from generation to generation, becoming a beautiful art form with national and local characteristics.

Folk art is closely related to folk activities, such as New Year pictures, paper-cutting, Spring Festival couplets, drama sets, lanterns, paper binding, symbols, costumes, dragon boat floats, moon cake patterns, clay sculptures and so on. Clothing and arrangements for folk festivals, as well as ethnic minority folk festivals.

Folk art is distributed all over the country, and has formed rich categories and styles due to differences in region, customs, feelings and temperament. But they all have the characteristics of unity of practical value and aesthetic value.

In addition, most of their production materials are ordinary wood, cloth, paper, bamboo and mud, but their production skills are superb, their ideas are ingenious, they are good at bold imagination and exaggeration, and they often use the familiar homophonic meanings to express their dreams and ideals for a better life, which is full of romanticism and makes people feel more festive.

Hebei folk art includes folk paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, calligraphy tablets of past dynasties, murals of temple tombs and so on. Among them, calligraphy inscriptions in past dynasties are important materials for studying historical relics and calligraphy art, and temple tomb murals are important materials for studying mural art and art history.

These precious cultural heritages have high artistic and cultural values. Based on folk life, folk painting develops and innovates on the basis of inheriting traditional painting style, which is also an important part of Hebei folk art.