Introduction and Characteristics of Guizhou Folk Crafts

Guizhou culture is a kind of regional culture with a long history in China's traditional culture. Due to the different geographic locations and climatic characteristics, Guizhou culture has shown a different and splendid posture. In Guizhou culture, Guizhou handicrafts are very favored by people, especially the age-old clothing decorations and so on are more popular. Let's take a look at the folk crafts in Guizhou.

Childish, simple and full of exaggerated resemblance to the artistic style, rich social functions, while having a strong regional and national constitutes its basic characteristics. Simplicity implies roughness in a sense. Due to the constraints of the materials used and the production tools, there is indeed a roughness of the materials and the roughness of the handmade, which is also one of the characteristics of folk crafts, roughness is only an apparent feature, and simplicity is the inner feeling.

Pingtang, Guizhou, tooth boat pottery in terms of its production process is inevitably rough and simple, from the production process, in the shape of the image, indeed, not refined and accurate, the line is not so smooth, glaze mottled, often stained with soil and even fingerprints on the finished product. However, it is these seemingly rough craftsmanship that precisely reflects the warmth of handmade, showing the true color of life, and even becoming a style. Simplicity also means simplicity, and simplicity is a kind of generalization, omitting unnecessary details, highlighting the key points, and focusing on characteristics. Guizhou clay pottery is generally abbreviated, focusing on the shape, less decorative patterns, very simple, and the shape itself is also very simple, the same give people also a sense of beauty!

Imagination and exaggeration, the ordinary things to be rendered to emphasize, give a beautiful wish to meet the needs of the aesthetic psychology, which is precisely the qualities of Guizhou folk art. Miao paper-cutting and embroidery are one and the same, only the materials used are different, but their styles are the same. From the pattern of materials, rich and varied, animals, plants, myths and legends, heroic stories and so on.

Image processing dare to imagine, bold exaggeration, the richness and variety of its pattern can be said to play to the extreme. Such as in the Miao embroidery in the image of the dragon there are many kinds of: the dragon's head with horns, the tail into a flower or a wide goldfish tail, "flying dragon" presented as a bird, "human dragon", "centipede dragon "human dragon", "centipede dragon" and so on. Miao embroidery also often flowers, plants, animals, characters together to tell a story, modeling ancient, clear theme.

They combine different environments, different seasons or unrelated things. Suitable patterns that often appear in brocade craft generally have a central body, the surrounding space is covered with flowers, grass or small animals, the composition is full, the sense of the whole is very strong and rich in change, which is very similar to the structure of modern patterns.

The relative independence of regional and national cultures, and the self-contained artistic language of Guizhou folk crafts, whether from the point of view of craftsmanship or artistic expression, all present a strong sense of local flavor and national spirit. The simplicity and vividness of the shape, the unrestrained use of color, bold imagination and exaggeration, together with skilled manual techniques, form the most perfect art works. This is not only the beauty of form, but also an attitude towards life, a record of history and reality, and the realization and pursuit of beauty.

Guizhou folk crafts are in a transitional period from tradition to modernity, from closed to open. From the current situation: on the one hand, it wants to maintain the excellent traditional culture, on the other hand, it is eager to put into the embrace of modern civilization, and the two are intertwined and contradictory. Under the strong attraction of modern civilized life, as the creators and inheritors of traditional culture, the peasant brothers, they have long wanted to get rid of poverty and change the unchanging mode of life.

In a sense, maintaining the originality of a certain region is equivalent to a certain backward way of life, which often means poverty and hardship. In Guizhou, where the ethnic culture is very rich in resources but relatively poor in material wealth, they are eager to get rid of poverty and pursue their own happy life without any hesitation, and it is difficult to take care of the protection of traditional culture and art. At the same time, they have not clearly realized that traditional culture and arts are also potential material wealth around them, and thus they do not hesitate to abandon them. The new generation of rural youths are abandoning their impoverished rural life, and at the same time abandoning their traditional handicrafts, and throwing themselves into the embrace of the city.