Which of the ten categories of intangible cultural heritage includes traditional skills?

Traditional techniques in the top ten intangible cultural heritages include shadow play, wood carving, clay sculpture, Chinese paper-cutting and Nanjing Jinyun brocade craft.

1, shadow play

Shadow play, also known as "shadow play" or "light shadow play", is a kind of folk drama that uses animal skin or cardboard to make people perform stories. During the performance, the artists manipulated the shadow puppeteers behind the white curtain, telling stories with local popular tunes, accompanied by percussion instruments and strings, which had a strong local flavor. Its popularity is extremely extensive, and various shadow plays are formed due to different voices played in different places.

2. woodcut

Wood carving is a kind of sculpture, which is often called "folk craft" in China. Wood carving can be divided into three categories: three-dimensional round carving, root carving and relief carving. Wood carving is a kind of work separated from carpentry, which is classified as "joinery" in China. Folk art varieties classified by carving materials. Generally, nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo, agarwood, mahogany, longan and other excellent and tough tree species are selected.

3. clay sculpture

Clay sculpture art is an ancient and common folk art in China folk tradition. That is, folk handicrafts that shape clay into various images. The production method is to mix a little cotton fiber into the clay, tamp it evenly, knead it into mud blanks with various patterns, dry it in the shade, coat it with base powder, and then color it. It takes soil as raw material, hand-shaped, or plain or colorful, with figures and animals as the main ones. Clay sculpture originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City, and is popular in Shaanxi, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan and other places.

4. Chinese paper cutting

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities.

5. Nanjing Jinyun Brocade Process

The core technology of Nanjing Jinyun Brocade, such as "warping and weft breaking", uses silk thread, gold thread and peacock feather thread to weave luxurious fabrics such as robes on large looms with complicated structures. Nanjing Jinyun Brocade has a complete technological system, which is a witness to the extraordinary creativity of human beings.