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What other folk arts are there in China?

Other folk arts in China include paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, and candy blowing.

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.

Shadow play is an ancient traditional Chinese folk art, called "donkey shadow" by the old Beijingers, which is a kind of folk theater that uses animal skins or cardboard silhouettes of people to perform stories.

The vendor who blew the candy man used a small shovel to take a little bit of hot sugar, put it on his talcum powdered hand and rubbed it, and then used his mouth to hold one end of it, and when it was blown up, he quickly put it in the talcum powdered wooden mold, and blew it hard, and then after a while, he opened the wooden mold, and then he blew up the candy man that he wanted.

Tianjin's mud man Zhang colorful sculpture is a popular traditional folk art, mud man Zhang Mingshan only have to sit across the table and talk to people, wrestling soil in the hand, not moving, instantaneous and become.

Face painting, is a traditional Chinese opera actor's face painting, used for stage performances when the make-up modeling art. Different lines of face painting, the situation is not the same. "Sheng", "Dan" face makeup is simple, slightly powdered, called "Jun dress", "plain face", "clean face". The "pure line" and "ugly line" face painting is more complex, especially the net, are heavily applied oil color, complex patterns, so called "flower face". The face painting in opera mainly refers to the face painting of Jing. The "ugly", because it plays a theater role, so in the bridge of the nose to smear a small piece of white powder, commonly known as small flower face.