Besides clay sculpture, what other folk crafts are there in China?

Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, window cutting or painting cutting. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting.

New Year picture

New Year pictures are a kind of Chinese paintings. The "Door God Painting", officially called New Year Painting, which began in Guangxu period of the ancient Qing Dynasty, is a unique painting genre in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks.

3-color embroidery

Color embroidery generally refers to the embroidery process of controlling patterns with various colored embroidery threads, which has the characteristics of smooth embroidery surface, rich stitches, fine stitches and bright colors, and is widely used in clothing accessories. 4 shadow play

Shadow play is a kind of folk drama, which uses lights to illuminate the silhouette of people made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories. In the performance, the artists manipulated the opera characters behind the white curtain, sang stories with local popular tunes, and matched them with percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. In rural Henan, this simple folk art form is very popular with people.

5 ventriloquism

Stomatology is a folk performance skill and a kind of acrobatics. In fact, the ancient ventriloquism is just an art of imitating sounds. Performers imitate various sounds with their mouths, which can make listeners feel immersive. It is one of the precious cultural and artistic heritages of China.

6 snuff bottle

A container for snuff. Cultural relics of Qing dynasty. Small hands, easy to carry. Snuff is a kind of tobacco product, which is made by baking tobacco leaves, removing stems, crushing, fermenting, adding spices and smoking them through the nose. Snuff was popular in Europe in the early17th century and was introduced to China in the later period.

7 changing face

Changing face is a stunt used in shaping characters in Sichuan Opera. Revealing the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play is a romantic technique.

8 puppet show

Puppet Show Puppet Show, also known as Puppet Show, Hand Puppet Show, Handbag Puppet Show, Palm Puppet Show, Small Cage and Finger Flower Show, originated in Quanzhou or Zhangzhou, Fujian, China in the 0/7th century. A local opera featuring puppets, mainly spread in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaoshan, Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces.

9 kneading dough man

Dough sculpture, also called dough figurine, is a simple but artistic folk handicraft. 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.

10 embroidered shoes

In the footwear family, China embroidered shoes are the perfect combination of shoe culture and embroidery art, and the original handicraft of the Chinese nation. This kind of practical product rooted in national culture is praised as "China shoes" by the world.

1 1 sugar blower

Sugar Blower was an industry in Beijing in the old days, which was called "Sugar Blower" in Beijing dialect. Vendors are walking in the street with a pole on their shoulders. At one end of the pole is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf. There is a semicircular wooden round cage with an opening under the cabinet. There is a small charcoal stove with a big spoon on it and syrup in the middle (it is said that maltose melts).

12 nuclear carving

Folk micro-carving technology. Carved into handicrafts with peach stones, apricot stones, olive stones and walnuts. Most people carve peach stones and hang them on their bodies as "evil spirits".

13 diabolo

According to legend, Cao Zhi wrote a poem "Diabolo Fu" in the Three Kingdoms. If this is the earliest record of diabolo, its history is at least 1700 years. In chapter 1 10 of Water Margin, Song Jiang saw someone playing "Hu Kou" on the way to conquer Fang La, and wrote a poem because of Su Taiwei's kindness: "A low voice and a high voice, a loud voice and a clear voice. There is a heroic force in the air, and no one is supporting it in vain. " Of course, the novel was written by later generations, but it also shows that diabolo has become very common in the era of writers.