What is folk art?

"Folk art" is a classification of the art field. If it is labeled as "folk", it is obviously different from the so-called "court art" and "aristocratic art". However, the field of "folk art" is very broad, and there are also many "unique skills", such as shadow play, paper-cutting, weaving, embroidery, lion dance and so on. These are well-known folk arts and the treasures of China culture.

China's folk art is:

China Folk Crafts:

Lion dance, shadow play, ceramics, clay sculpture, paper cutting, cloth art, lantern color, pendant, bamboo horse, Lijiang woodcut, birch bark craft, animal skin craft, bamboo weaving craft, lacquer craft, inkstone craft, lacquer pottery, jade craft, marble craft, grass painting, New Year pictures, kites, paper weaving paintings, Su embroidery, Thangka and so on.

China folk opera art;

The more popular and famous operas are Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Henan Opera, xiang opera Opera, Guangdong Opera, Qin Opera, Sichuan Opera, Pingju Opera, Shanxi Opera, Han Opera, Chaozhou Opera, Fujian Opera, Hebei Bangzi Opera, Huangmei Opera, Hunan Opera and so on.

Chinese folk dance art

Running curtain, running array dance, playing unicorn, carrying box dance, dragon dance, lion dance, unicorn dance, donkey driving dance, bamboo horse dance and cat butterfly dance. Playing Spring Cattle, Playing Iron Dance, Eight Beautiful Pictures, Lotus Lantern, Chrysanthemum Lantern, Boat Dance, Stilts Dance, Yangko, Waist Encouragement and Bronze Encouragement.

China Folk Painting Art

Chinese folk

To wizards, to play God's wishes, to brag and play drums.

China folk T-stage

China folk clothes

China folk ornaments

China civil furniture

China Folk Architecture Gardens

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New Year pictures are a kind of Chinese paintings. The ancient "door-god painting", which began in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, is officially called New Year painting. It is a unique painting school in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used to put up posters and decorate the environment during the Chinese New Year, which means wishing a happy New Year. Therefore, traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The main producing areas are Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Weifang in Shandong. There are Cantonese New Year pictures in Shanghai, Sichuan, Fujian, Shanxi, Hebei and even Zhejiang. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole book is called Gong Jian. A piece of paper with three styles is called "three talents", and a lot of meticulous processing is called "painting palace tips" and "painting three talents". Products coated with gold powder are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Three Talents". Products before June are called "green edition", and products after July and August are called "autumn edition". Traditional New Year pictures are mainly woodcut watermarks, pursuing simple style and excitement. It expresses people's yearning for a bumper harvest and a happy life, and has strong national characteristics and local flavor. The four famous "Hometowns of New Year Pictures" in China are Mianzhu New Year Pictures, Suzhou Taohuawu, Tianjin Yangliuqing and Shandong Weifang. New Year pictures made in these places are deeply loved by urban and rural people. The names of New Year pictures vary from place to place. Beijing is called "painting" and Suzhou is called "painting". Sichuan is called "Doufang" ... and so on. Today, New Year pictures are gradually called "New Year pictures" everywhere. New Year pictures are a folk craft for Chinese people to pray for good luck and welcome the New Year, and it is also a form of folk art expression that carries people's vision for the future. Historically, people called New Year pictures "paper paintings", called "painting stickers" in Ming Dynasty and "painting stickers" in Qing Dynasty. Scholar Li Guangting wrote in the article: "It's a joke to paste New Year pictures after sweeping the house." New Year pictures got their name from this. New Year pictures have simple lines, bright colors and warm and pleasant atmosphere, such as pictures of spring cows, New Year's Eve, Jia Sui, playing with dolls, family fun, watching lanterns and fat dolls. Some of them are based on immortals, historical stories and dramatic characters. For example, genre (or form) includes door painting (single picture and folio) and four screens with horizontal and vertical single picture, etc. There have been records about New Year pictures in the Song Dynasty, and the earliest woodcut New Year pictures seen at present are the graceful appearance of the Southern Song Dynasty and Sui Dynasty. It is a pioneer of folk art in China, and also a reflection of China's social history, life, beliefs and customs. Whenever celebrating the Lunar New Year, I will buy two New Year pictures and stick them on the door, which is the case in almost every family. From the gate to the hall, there are all kinds of colorful New Year pictures symbolizing good fortune. The reason why the New Year is full of joy and excitement is that New Year pictures have played a certain role in it. Generally speaking, they are rich families. In the hall, people always like to hang birthday stars, purple stars, blessings, blessings, longevity and so on. Flowers and birds such as Mei Lan and Zhu Ju are naturally popular. For thousands of years, New Year pictures are not only colorful decorations for New Year's festivals, but also carriers and tools for cultural circulation, moral education, aesthetic exchange and belief inheritance. It is also a popular reading material that can read pictures; Current events New Year pictures are a popular media. This kind of content is an encyclopedic folk art, which contains a complete China folk spirit. New Year pictures are also a dictionary of regional culture, from which we can find the distinctive cultural personality of each region. These personality factors are not only reflected in the theme content, but also in the genre, color, lines and different versions of New Year pictures. You can recognize it at a glance. You can learn about all the people in China from the New Year pictures. Peking Opera is one of the operas formed in Beijing with a history of nearly 200 years. On the basis of Anhui Opera and Han Opera, it gradually formed by absorbing the advantages and specialties of some operas such as Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera. Peking Opera music belongs to the banqiang style, and its main singing methods are Huang Er and Xipi. Therefore, Peking Opera is also called "skin yellow". The commonly used vocals in Beijing Opera are Nanbangzi, Siping Tune, Gaobazi and Chuiqiang. There are more than 1000 traditional operas in Beijing Opera, and about 300 of them are often performed. Among them, in addition to Anhui Opera, Han Opera, Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera, a considerable number of them were created by Peking Opera artists and folk writers. Beijing opera is good at expressing political and military struggles with historical themes and stories. There are also a large number of bankbook dramas and some comic dramas. The role of Peking Opera is strictly divided into seven lines: life, Dan, purity, ink, ugliness, martial arts and popularity, and then into four lines: life, Dan, purity and ugliness. Each line has a detailed division of labor. "Sheng" is a male character except for a big face and a clown. Most of them are male characters with special personalities, qualities or looks, and they all use makeup masks. "Ugly" plays a comedy role, because a small piece of white powder is smeared on the bridge of the nose, commonly known as little face. The classification of Peking Opera facial makeup includes: full face, hero face, sextile face, crooked face, fairy face, clown face and so on.

What are the folk arts in China?

China folk arts and crafts

China folk arts and crafts have a long history and rich contents. Most of these handicrafts are related to folk customs, and the materials are ceramics, clay sculptures, fabrics, wood, lanterns, pendants,

Lijiang woodcut, birch bark craft, lacquer craft, animal skin craft, inkstone craft, bamboo weaving craft, lacquer pottery, jade craft, marble craft,

Tujia boxwood carving, porcelain, kites, paper-cuts, grass paintings, New Year pictures, pencil pictures, Thangka, Tuozhen paintings, silverware.

Decoration, paper weaving, Suzhou embroidery, fish skin clothing, etc. Most of the contents are lively and uplifting, good luck, good health and long life, and rich children and grandchildren. , used in traditional folk festivals, traditional religions and ethnic ornaments. These folk crafts are widely spread, vivid and interesting, representing the traditional culture and daily activities of the people of China. China Folk Art Network has specially classified and selected some fine products to introduce to you for your appreciation and reference.

China Folk Painting Art

China folk painting art is an artistic treasure of the Chinese nation, an important part of China folk culture and a treasure of world culture and art. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up for more than 20 years, China folk painting art has gradually developed into a modern folk painting with a distinct sense of the times and a strong flavor of life.

What kinds of folk arts are there?

There are many kinds of folk arts with different purposes and uses, such as plastic arts for appreciation and practical handicrafts.

. Generally speaking, it can be divided into:

① painting. These include prints, New Year pictures, architectural color paintings, murals, lantern paintings, fan paintings and so on.

2 sculpture. There are colored sculptures (spectacle colored sculptures, small clay figurines), architectural stone carvings, metal casting carvings, wood carvings, brick carvings, dough sculptures, glass architectural ornaments and so on.

③ Toys. Including mud toys, ceramic toys, cloth toys, bamboo toys, iron toys, paper toys, wax toys, etc.

④ Embroidery, dyeing and knitting. Including batik, calico, homespun, brocade, embroidery, flower picking, flower mending, etc.

⑤ clothing. Including national costumes, children's wear, wedding dresses, embroidered wallets, insoles, jewelry, velvet silk flower and so on.

⑥ Furniture and appliances. Including daily pottery, daily porcelain, wood, bamboo, lacquer, bronze and leather products, horses and chariots, etc. It has decorative and artistic value.

⑦ Toy group. Including puppets, shadow puppets, masks, flower show shapes, etc.

8 paper cutting. Including window grilles, fireworks, embroidery, embroidery patterns, tags, etc.

Pet-name ruby paper lamp paper. Including all kinds of lanterns and all kinds of paper.

Take part in knitting. Including straw weaving, bamboo weaving, wickerwork weaving, straw weaving, wheat straw weaving, brown weaving, paper weaving and so on. Food. Pastry mold, pastry modeling, candy modeling, etc. Folk art runs through all fields of people's life and spiritual world, directly reflecting the thoughts, feelings and aesthetic tastes of working people, and showing their intelligence and artistic talent.