What belongs to folk art?

1. Paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, intermingled with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities.

2, wood carving is a kind of sculpture, often called "folk craft". Wood carving can be divided into three-dimensional round carving, root carving, relief carving three categories. Wood carving is separated from the carpentry of a type of work, in China's classification of work for the "fine woodworking".

Folk art varieties categorized by carving materials. Generally, they use trees with fine and tough texture that are not easy to deform, such as nanmu, zitan, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, incense, mahogany, longan, and so on.

3, shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light and shadow play", is a kind of animal skin or cardboard made of silhouettes of characters to perform the story of folk theater. 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, with a strong local flavor. Its popularity is extremely wide, and a variety of shadow plays have been formed due to the different vocal cadences performed in different places.

4, clay sculpture, commonly known as "color sculpture" clay art is a traditional Chinese folk an ancient and common folk art. That is, with clay molded into a variety of images of a folk craft. Production method is in the clay mixed with a little cotton fiber, pounded, pinched into a variety of characters of the mud blanks, after drying, coated with primer, and then apply color painting. It is an ancient and common Han folk art in China.

5, seal carving originated in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, is a combination of calligraphy (mainly seal script) and engraving (including chiseling and casting), is used to make seals of art, is a unique art form of Chinese characters. Seal carving can be divided into Zhou seal, Qin and Han official seal and other kinds.