What are the disappearing traditional Chinese handicrafts

1. Sugar man making is a traditional Chinese handicraft in which the makers all pick a stretcher with a heating stove at one end and sugar and tools at the other. Sugar is made from heated cane sugar and maltose, and is brownish-yellow in color, while some add pigment or coloring to make it red or green.

2, Hangzhou embroidery, one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts, to the Southern Song Dynasty for the peak period. Embroidery at that time, a "court embroidery", a "folk embroidery", the former specializing in embroidery for the royal court of all kinds of clothing, the latter embroidered official clothes, quilts, screens, wall hangings and so on.

3, filigree inlay, also known as fine gold craft, is a long-established traditional Chinese handicrafts, mainly used in the production of royal jewelry. For the "filigree" and "inlay" the combination of two production techniques. Filigree selection of gold, silver, copper as raw materials, the use of pinching, filling, saving, welding, weaving, stacking and other traditional techniques. Inlaid with frustration, engraved, pounded, smothered, beaten, crumbling, squeezed, inlaid and other techniques, the metal sheet will be made into a bracket and claw-type grooves, and then inlaid with pearls and gemstones.

4, material ware, refers to the use of pigmented glass raw materials made of utensils or handicrafts. Material ware, also known as "glassware", China's material production began around the end of the Yuan and early Ming Dynasty (mid-14th century). It was one of the most common crafts used in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911 AD).

5. sǔn mǎo (榫卯), the main structural method of ancient Chinese architecture, furniture and other instruments, is a type of connection that combines concave and convex parts on two members. The convex part is called mortise and tenon (or mortise and tenon); the concave part is called mortise (or mortise and tenon slot).