What folk arts are there in Gansu Province?

Yongshou paper-cut The composition and style of Yongshou paper-cut can be called ingenious and vigorous, which is fascinating in people's living customs in mountainous and plain areas. Ann Yu Fang, a 60-year-old rural woman, is known as an expert gardener and has participated in provincial, prefectural and county art competitions. In the summer, a woman in Gutun Township is good at cutting all kinds of birds, and her proud work "A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" is well-known in China and exhibited in France.

2. Fengxiang Woodblock New Year Pictures

According to historical records, Fengxiang woodblock New Year pictures have a history of 476 years. According to the ancestral archives of a business family, in the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1507), there were eight families in the Tai family in Xiaoli Village who were engaged in the sideline of New Year pictures. As early as the 55th year of Qing Qianlong (1790), the Dai family set up a "painting bureau" for early New Year pictures, which has lasted for six generations 190 years.

3. Yutian clay toys

Yutian, Hebei Province, is an ancient county related to jade, which is highly valued by some emperors, experts and scholars. It is located in the center of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan. More than 3000 years ago, it was the seat of the early capital of Yan State. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it belonged to Wudong State, and Wudong County was established in the early Tang Dynasty. Since 1993, the people of China named yutian county as "the hometown of folk art (folk clay sculpture) in China", Yoga Yu's name is dazzling.

4. Folk printing and dyeing

Traditional folk printing and dyeing in China include tie-dyeing, batik, blue calico and colored calico. The first three are the processes of printing, dyeing, coloring and showing flowers. Indigo extracted from cymes is used as a dye, which is also called blue dyeing and blue printing by the people. Color printing cloth is a multi-plate color printing process.

5. dough sculpture art

China's traditional food culture has a long history. According to documents, there were already people in the Han Dynasty. The Song Dynasty recorded the custom of using dough sculptures in Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and wedding celebrations.

The earliest existing ancient dough figurines are female dough figurines, male upper body figurines and pig dough figurines unearthed in the tomb of the 4th year of Yonghui in Tang Dynasty (AD 653) found in Astana tomb in Turpan, Xinjiang.