The Significance of the Establishment of China Folk Artists Association

Since the establishment of China Folk Writers and Artists Association, it has effectively organized and arranged the folk literature of various ethnic groups, especially the national epics Gesar, Manas and Yalu River, carried out many large-scale national folk literature, folk art and folk culture collection and protection work, and edited and published China Folk Story Integration, China Proverbs Integration, China Ballad Integration and China Woodcut. The ongoing "China Folk Cultural Heritage Rescue Project" enriches, deepens and develops the preliminary work, and undertakes the project "China Thangka Cultural Archives" specially entrusted by the National Social Science Fund; The key project of folk culture rescue "China oral literature heritage digitization project"; "Investigation of Traditional Villages in China" project; "China Folk Paper-cutting Integration" and "Our Festival" traditional festival series activities. The 11th Mountain Flower Award and the 10th China Folk Art Festival held successively have produced a large number of outstanding folk cultural talents and works in various art categories.