What kinds of folk handicrafts are there?

The traditional folk crafts in China include sugar blowing, brick carving, porcelain carving, micro carving, puppet, shadow play, paper horse, inner painting, clay sculpture, dough sculpture, sugar carving, embroidery, brocade, paper cutting, kite, face painting, woodblock New Year pictures and dust painting. Every exquisite handicraft and craft shows the ingenuity of folk craftsmen and tells touching stories and legends.

Folk handicrafts generally refer to handicrafts created, produced, used and appreciated by working people to meet the needs of life and aesthetic requirements. In Europe and America, folk handicrafts are called peasant handicrafts. With the development of commodity economy, folk handicrafts enter the field of commodity circulation and are sold to domestic and foreign markets.

Characteristics of folk handicrafts

1, focusing on practicality and function, perfectly combining function and aesthetic requirements.

2. Folk handicrafts express the wishes, thoughts and feelings of working people for a better and happier life, and reflect people's living customs.

3. Most of them use local materials, with abundant local resources, simple tools and manual labor. Natural materials such as soil, wheat straw, bamboo, cotton thread, wood and corn husk can be used as raw materials, and the product has the artistic characteristics of being thick, thick and simple.