Are kites, paper-cuts and Ansai waist drums folk arts?

Kites, paper-cuts and Ansai waist drums are all folk arts.

Kites originated in China and then spread all over the world. This is a traditional folk handicraft. According to legend, Mo Zhai made wooden birds out of wood, which took three years to develop successfully and was the earliest origin of kites. Later, his student Lu Ban used bamboo to improve the materials of kites in Mo Zhai, and even evolved into today's multi-line kites. Kites originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and have a history of more than 2,000 years.

Paper-cutting, also called paper engraving, is a hollow art and one of the oldest folk arts of Han nationality in China. Visually, it gives people an empty inspiration and artistic enjoyment. The carrier of paper-cutting can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth and leather. Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history and widely spread in rural areas of China. The emergence and spread of this folk art is closely related to the festival customs in rural areas of China. On festivals or wedding celebrations, the word "Xi" is usually affixed. People stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on snow-white walls or bright windows, doors and lanterns, and the festive atmosphere is rendered very rich and festive. Paper-cut art is a traditional folk craft of Han nationality. It has a long history and is enduring. It is a treasure in China folk art, and also a treasure in the world art treasure house. Simple, vivid and interesting artistic modeling has unique artistic charm. Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the two-dimensional concept of space, the texture of knife and paper, lines and decoration, freehand brushwork and implication and many other aspects.

Ansai waist drum is a popular form of folk encouragement in northern Shaanxi, especially in Ansai County in Yan 'an, Hengshan Mountain in Yulin and Mizhi, and it is one of the most influential folk dances in Shaanxi. Ansai waist drum originated from Hengshan Mountain in Yulin. In the late Ming Dynasty, due to famine and peasant uprising, Ansai was sparsely populated. Now Ansai people have moved from Hengshan in Yulin and brought them to Ansai.

Ansai waist drum is a unique folk dance art form with a history of more than two thousand years. The unique charm of Ansai's waist drum image has set off a wild gallop on the yellow land, showing the simple and bold character of farmers in the northwest loess plateau and their unique artistic personality. In Beijing, Hongkong and China, the capitals of China, it has displayed its elegant demeanor and attracted the attention of the whole world.

So kites, paper-cuts and Ansai waist drums are all folk arts.