Briefly introduce folk crafts.

Folk arts and crafts producers produce folk arts and crafts for their own needs, mainly including cutting and carving, weaving and dyeing, weaving and binding, and others. Cutting and carving techniques mainly include paper-cutting and shadow play. Weaving and dyeing technology mainly refers to people's daily clothes and household items, and its categories include embroidery, brocade, flower picking and printing and dyeing. After entering modern times, folk crafts mainly refer to the inheritance of traditional folk crafts. Carving techniques mainly include paper-cutting and shadow play. With the folk activities in various places, shadow play production is widely circulated among the people. In the 20th century, the rural areas of China still maintained this custom to a great extent. Whenever celebrating festivals, offering sacrifices or holding embroidery activities, people cut out patterns and place good wishes and ideals on them. Paper-cutting in this period basically maintained its original style, which was divided into north and south. Paper-cutting in Northwest China, North China, South China and Southwest China basically belongs to naive and vigorous northern style, while paper-cutting in East China, Central China and Southwest China is exquisite and delicate southern style. From the 1920s to the 1940s, many farmers left their homes and entered cities to make a living by paper cutting. Influenced by urban culture and consumer interest, paper-cutting has lost some local flavor and tends to be refined, elegant and exquisite. In the second half of the 20th century, some paper-cuts developed into organized commodity production, and some artists became professional paper-cut artists. Most paper-cuts are made by the people. In 1980s, people paid more attention to and loved paper-cutting, and some national or local paper-cutting societies, research conferences or professional publications appeared. Shadow play is a kind of drama that spreads among the people. Mainly distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Beijing, Hebei, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and other regions. After 1950s, due to the rapid development and spread of modern drama and film and television art, folk shadow play was greatly impacted. In order to protect, research and develop this folk art, the government has set up some professional troupes and toured in urban and rural areas and even abroad, so the development and production of shadow play technology have been promoted and protected to a certain extent. Folk weaving and dyeing techniques are found all over the country. The more distinctive ones are batik of Miao nationality in Guizhou, tie-dyed brocade of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, Tujia brocade in Xiangxi, Hunan, Li brocade of Li nationality in Guangdong, Adelaide silk, blue calico, cross stitch of Uygur nationality in Xinjiang and various cloth toys of Han nationality. In the first half of the 20th century, a large number of foreign printed fabrics flooded into China and gained an advantage in the competition. Since then, folk homespun and printing and dyeing production in coastal areas have gone from bad to worse. Since the 1950s, due to the wide spread of modern culture, the lifestyle and aesthetic taste of rural people have changed greatly, most of the traditional costumes have been eliminated, and the ancient weaving and dyeing skills tend to disappear. Only in ethnic minority areas and remote and closed areas can we see some weaving and dyeing techniques that maintain traditional characteristics. After entering the 1980s. The state attaches great importance to this situation and has taken some measures to protect and develop production. With the active rural economy and the prosperity of tourism, the weaving and embroidery technology in rural areas has been slightly revived. Farmers or artists in rural towns of China have a long history. They use natural materials such as bamboo, rattan, palm, grass, hemp, sunflower, willow, corn husk or wheat straw to weave all kinds of beautiful family practical handicrafts. Many traditional folk weaving techniques have gradually turned to the production of export commodities, especially in coastal areas and surrounding areas of big cities. Such as straw weaving in Shandong, grass, hemp and bamboo weaving in Zhejiang, brown and bamboo weaving in Sichuan and bamboo weaving in Anhui. As a sideline suitable for rural economic development, folk weaving and binding technology has been paid attention to by local governments, and production has recovered rapidly and embarked on the road of cooperation. Since 1970s, the production of folk knitting technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the number of enterprises and employees has greatly increased. Artists have innovated many techniques and varieties on the basis of inheriting the tradition. Kites and lanterns are also weaving techniques with a long history. Early spring or New Year's Day is a festive day every year, and people can see flying kites, making lanterns and enjoying lanterns. During this period, Beijing Kite Ha, Tianjin Kite Wei, Jiangsu Nantong and Shandong Weifang were the most famous products. Famous lanterns are produced in Shi Xia, Zhejiang, Foshan, Guangdong and Quanzhou, Fujian. In the second half of the 20th century, especially in the 1980s, the folk custom of flying kites and watching lanterns combined with modern culture, resulting in Weifang International Kite Competition and Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, and other new forms integrating entertainment, publicity, cultural exchange and economy and trade. As a cultural phenomenon, they have aroused widespread concern in society. In addition, some other folk arts and crafts, such as folk painting, sculpture, firing, architecture, clothing, decoration, etc., either continued to be popular, or disappeared quietly, or brought forth new ideas in the new cultural environment after the Revolution of 1911. With the rapid development of modern science and technology, its own cultural and artistic value is increasingly evident. The consolidation, restoration, promotion, protection and development based on different angles are or need to be further developed.