Folk traditional cultural elements

Folk art is an important part of national culture, including folk arts and crafts, folk music, folk dance and opera. Folk art in a narrow sense refers to folk plastic arts, including various forms of expression of folk art and arts and crafts.

According to the classification of materials, folk handicrafts are made of different materials, such as paper, cloth, bamboo, wood, stone, leather, metal, noodles, mud, ceramics, grass willow, rattan, paint and so on.

They are mainly made of natural materials, local materials and traditional handwork, with strong local characteristics and national style, closely combined with folk activities and life. Folk art is accompanied by life etiquette from birth to death, food, clothing, housing and transportation in daily life all year round.

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Classification of folk art

Colorful folk arts can be classified from various angles according to their materials, such as paper, cloth, bamboo, wood, stone, leather, metal, noodles, mud, ceramics, grass willow, rattan, paint and so on. Basically, they are all natural materials and hand-made.

According to different production techniques, folk art can be divided into cutting, carving, embroidery (including printing and dyeing), weaving, painting, carving, pasting, performance, decoration and display.

There are also scholars who classify according to the shape, but these classifications are relatively simple and cannot fully reflect the close relationship between the extremely rich content types of folk arts and crafts and traditional culture.

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