What are the traditional folk arts in China?

China folk art includes traditional embroidery, folk printing and dyeing, national brocade, clay sculpture, dough sculpture, puppet art, sculpture art, shadow play, sculpture and so on. Folk art refers to works of art, handicrafts and decorations made by ordinary people who have not received formal art training but have mastered established traditional styles and skills. A country or region may produce a typical folk art.

Folk art is put forward according to the concepts of academic art and literati art. In a broad sense, folk art is an art created by workers to meet their own life and aesthetic needs, including folk arts and crafts, folk music, folk dance and opera.

Folk art in a narrow sense refers to folk plastic arts, including various forms of expression of folk art and arts and crafts. According to the classification of materials, folk handicrafts are made of different materials, such as paper, cloth, bamboo, wood, stone, leather, metal, noodles, mud, ceramics, grass willow, rattan, paint and so on.

Judging from the mode of production, folk art is handed down from generation to generation by taking one family as the production unit, with fathers passing on their children and teachers leading their disciples. From the functional point of view, it includes not only folk art works with ornamental and spiritual pleasure, but also utensils and decorations with practical and use functions.