What traditional handicrafts are there in Foshan?

Foshan, called Zen for short, is a famous cultural city with a long history. It is the hometown of Huang Feihong and Bruce Lee, the economic center of the Pearl River Delta, and a famous commercial city with a thousand years of glory. What traditional handicrafts are there in Foshan?

Foshan specialty 1: Nanhai embroidery

Guangdong Nanhai embroidery is the most important part of Guangdong embroidery, which is famous all over the country and has become one of the famous birthplaces of Guangdong embroidery. According to legend, Nanhai embroidery originated from a delicate embroidery woman in Nanhai, and people called her Nanhai embroidery goddess. Now Nanhai embroidery has become a well-known brand in Foshan, Guangdong.

Foshan specialty 2: Foshan paper-cut

Foshan paper-cutting is a traditional handicraft in Foshan, Guangdong Province, with a long history. It spread in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its style is vigorous in Gu Zhuo, its structure is bold and unconstrained, its colors are exaggerated and rich, its skills of cutting, engraving, chiseling, printing, writing and lining are used together, its materials and expression techniques are skillfully combined, and it has distinctive local characteristics. Due to the different production methods, it can be roughly divided into solid color paper-cutting, copper lining, example writing, paper writing, golden flower writing, silver writing and so on.

Foshan Specialty III: Shiwan Ceramics

Shiwan ceramics is a handicraft in Foshan, Guangdong Province, with a very long history. Its production can be traced back to the late Neolithic period, and it is called "Shiwan doll". Every work is full of rich, rough, simple and frank aesthetic taste. Shiwan doll has unique glaze color, colorful glaze color and vivid modeling. In terms of techniques, the unglazed clay "fetal bone" is used to depict people and show people's skin, achieving the artistic effect of "warmer and more humane than porcelain carving".

Foshan specialty 4: Xiangyun yarn

Xiangyun yarn is a traditional handicraft in Foshan, Guangdong Province, with a long history. During Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, Guangdong has dyed and dried silk unearthed with Dioscorea cirrhosa, which is the predecessor of Guangdong specialty Dioscorea cirrhosa silk. Xiangyun yarn is the only real silk fabric dyed with pure plant dyes in the world, which is praised by the textile industry.

"Soft gold" is the only silk fabric dyed with pure vegetable dyes in the world textiles. The yarn has the characteristics of unique production process, small quantity and long production time. It is cool and pleasant, light and soft, quick-drying in water, not easy to wrinkle, rich in bones, sterilization and insect repellent, and has health care effect on skin.

Foshan Specialty 5: Foshan Woodblock New Year Pictures

Foshan Woodblock New Year Pictures are handicrafts in Foshan, Guangdong Province, and are famous folk New Year Pictures in southern China. They have a long history. As early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the custom of carving door gods was popular in Guangzhou, Foshan and other places. It is as famous as the New Year pictures of Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Huaifang in Shandong. It is one of the four production bases of woodblock New Year pictures in China, and its influence is as far away as Southeast Asia and even the world.