Handmade works of traditional culture

Traditional Chinese cultural handicrafts include: paper-cutting, woodcutting craft, birch-skin craft, lacquer craft, animal-skin craft and so on.

Traditional Chinese handicrafts include: woodcutting, birch skin craft, lacquer craft, animal skin craft, inkstone craft, bamboo weaving craft, lacquer pottery, jade craft, marble craft, Tujia poplar wood carving, paper cutting, wheat pole painting, New Year's paintings, pencil shavings paintings, thangkas and so on, which are generally seen in the sight of the people with handicrafts, such as:ceramics, Clay sculpture, cloth, wood, lanterns, hangings and so on.

Traditional handicrafts, handicrafts is an important part of China's traditional culture. Handicraft refers to the production of manual labor with a unique artistic style of arts and crafts. Unlike the arts and crafts of mass production of standardized daily-use crafts in a large industrial mechanized way. Handicraft refers to products made purely by hand or with the help of tools. Mechanical tools may be used, but only if the craftsman's direct handwork remains the primary source of the finished product.

History and culture of paper-cutting:

1. During the Northern Dynasties, people used paper to cut out a variety of beautiful designs and patterns. It is said that the earliest documented paper-cutting is found in Xinjiang Turpan Flaming Mountain near the discovery of the five Northern Dynasties group flower paper-cutting. At that time, the climate of the northwest region is dry and less rain, the paper is not easy to mold, guess, this may also be found in Xinjiang, the Northern Dynasties paper cuts an important reason for it.

2, to the Tang Dynasty, paper cutting has developed greatly. At that time, people applied paper-cutting patterns to other crafts, and there was also the popularity of the custom of using paper-cutting to invoke the soul. In modern archaeology, unearthed a variety of Tang Dynasty paper-cutting artifacts, such as now hidden in the British Museum of the Tang Dynasty paper-cutting, can be seen at the time of paper-cutting handmade art level has been quite superb, the picture composition is complete, expresses a kind of heaven and earth ideal realm.

3, to the Song Dynasty, the development of the paper industry mature, making the art of paper cutting more and more popular. Paper cutting was used in a variety of fields in the Song Dynasty, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were artists who made a career out of it. At that time, shadow plays were prevalent, and thick paper was also used to make shadow shapes. Song dynasty paper cutting is the biggest creation of porcelain paper cutting prints, it is in the glaze, paste the paper cutting, into the kiln firing and become.