What are the traditional folk skills in China?

Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, window cutting or painting cutting. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting.

2. New Year pictures

New Year pictures are a kind of Chinese paintings. The "Door God Painting", officially called New Year Painting, which began in Guangxu period of the ancient Qing Dynasty, is a unique painting genre in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks.

3, color embroidery

Color embroidery generally refers to the embroidery process of controlling patterns with various colored embroidery threads, which has the characteristics of smooth embroidery surface, rich stitches, fine stitches and bright colors, and is widely used in clothing accessories.

4. Shadow play

Shadow play is a kind of folk drama, which uses lights to illuminate the silhouette of people made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories. In the performance, the artists manipulated the opera characters behind the white curtain, sang stories with local popular tunes, and matched them with percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. In rural Henan, this simple folk art form is very popular with people.

5, ventriloquism

Stomatology is a folk performance skill and a kind of acrobatics. In fact, the ancient ventriloquism is just an art of imitating sounds. Performers imitate various sounds with their mouths, which can make listeners feel immersive. It is one of the precious cultural and artistic heritages of China.