Local Characteristics of Arts and Crafts in China

China's traditional arts and crafts not only have a distinctive national style, but also products from all over the country have their own strong local characteristics. In the vast land of China, people's living habits and customs vary greatly from place to place. Long-term feudal society, natural economy and regional traffic jams make these differences form their own lifestyles, cultural attainments and aesthetic habits. The creation and production of arts and crafts are directly influenced by people's living customs, thus forming a strong local arts and crafts characteristics. For example, ceramics, including Jun porcelain, Ru Ci, Guan porcelain, Ge porcelain and Ding kiln, are the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty. Now the main producing areas have maintained and developed their own unique style on the basis of inheriting the tradition. Jingdezhen, known as the "porcelain capital", is decorated with blue and white, glazed red, glazed antique and pastel, which is elegant in style and can be used as daily necessities or furnishings. Thin-shell porcelain and colored glaze porcelain are also characteristic products of Jingdezhen. Liling, Hunan's products are most famous for their white and transparent underglaze multicolored porcelain, with smooth and moist glaze. Carving is the most famous porcelain in Fengxi, Guangdong, and it is beautifully carved in the contrast between reality and reality. Zibo porcelain, with modern modeling and decorative style, is an outstanding product of flint clay porcelain, which belongs to the category of fine stone porcelain, gray beige, calm and subtle, and solid in texture. The unique products of Tangshan Porcelain in Hebei Province are fine and transparent talc porcelain, sparkling bone porcelain and white jade porcelain, and the decoration methods are mainly new glaze colors, spray colors and gold carvings. The products of Cizhou Kiln (Handan) in Hebei Province are characterized by black and white contrast, and colorful decorative patterns are depicted by techniques such as rust and carving. Zhejiang Longquan celadon belongs to thick glaze porcelain, which is mainly carved or embossed, and has the decorative characteristics of Tang and Song Dynasties. Jun porcelain and Jun porcelain are both famous in Song Dynasty. Jun porcelain is characterized by color glaze and "kiln change", including begonia red, vermilion, chicken blood red, grape purple, sky blue, fish-belly white and other glaze colors, which penetrate each other and set each other off. Ru Ci is mostly green powder, gray blue, bean green, shrimp green and other glaze colors, and depicts bas-relief patterns. Fujian Dehua white porcelain is translucent, with ivory white and lard white glaze, decorated with traditional relief, elegant and unique. Yaozhou porcelain in Tongchuan, Shaanxi is mainly celadon with northern characteristics, with both white porcelain and black porcelain, rough and handsome carving. The local characteristics of lacquerware are also very obvious. For example, Beijing's products are mainly carved lacquer and carved lacquer filler; Fujian is mainly bodiless lacquerware; Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province is famous for its mother-of-pearl lacquerware and inlaid treasure lacquerware. Sichuan lacquerware is good at carving, filling and grinding paintings in painting techniques; The traditional characteristics of lacquerware in Yangjiang, Guangdong and generous in Guizhou are made of leather, which is simple and beautiful, moisture-proof and durable. Lacquerware in Shanxi and Gansu is good at carving lacquer, gold and filling. The four famous embroideries in embroidery have their own characteristics. Suzhou embroidery is rich in stitches and elegant in color; Xiang embroidery is vivid, rough and unrestrained; Guangdong embroidery has well-proportioned composition and bright colors; Shu embroidery has strict stitches and bright colors. The maintenance and development of local characteristics make China arts and crafts more colorful.

Local characteristics and artistic schools complement each other. Cultivate artists in the local environment; The talent and achievements of artists have promoted the enrichment and perfection of local characteristics. China arts and crafts have been handed down from generation to generation. In the past, training talents mainly depended on mentoring. The successful artist shine on you is Better than Blue has formed his own style. Influenced by them, in the process of imparting skills and cultivating talents, various artistic schools based on the relationship between master and apprentice have naturally formed around "famous teachers". For example, in Jingdezhen ceramic industry, there are many artistic schools headed by famous ceramists Wang Bu (good at blue and white), Liu Yucen (good at pastel), Duan Maofa (good at antique) and Zeng Longsheng (good at porcelain carving). Famous artists in Beijing jade industry include Pan Bingheng, He Rong, Liu Deying, Wang Shusen and Zhang Yunhe. Among them, Pan Bingheng is good at "Thin Fetus" and "Gold and Silver Wrong", which is the first group portrait work with stories and ideological content; He Rongshan goddess; Liu Deying is good at stereoscopic flowers; Wang Shusen is skilled and good at numbers; Good at drawing birds is called "bird Zhang" Shoushan stone carvings in Fuzhou have been divided into two schools since the late Qing Dynasty: East Gate and West Gate. Since the 1950s, outstanding artists such as Chen Jingxiang, Feng Jiuhe, Guo Gongsen and Zhou Baoting have emerged, and they have formed their own systems with their unique artistic achievements. Suzhou embroidery, since the late Qing Dynasty, Shen Shou, an embroidery artist and educator, absorbed the strengths of western and Japanese art and embroidery and created simulated embroidery. In 1930s, Yang Shouyu drew lessons from the art of oil painting and created disorderly needle embroidery. In 1950s, Zhu Feng created pine needle embroidery. Since then, Suzhou embroidery is no longer a single artistic style. There are many schools of arts and crafts in China, which reflect the prosperity of creation.