What are the world-famous folk art?

1, shadow play leather

Shadow play, originated in China's Shaanxi during the Western Han Dynasty, more than 1,000 years ago, is the world's earliest by the people dubbed the activities of the art of painting and calligraphy, some people believe that the shadow play is the modern "film ancestor". In China, many local operas and plays are derived from the shadow play, and the reasoning of the shadow play and the means of performing art played an important role in the invention of the modern movie and the development of the modern movie art film. From this, it can be seen that shadow art has a high artistic value in China and even in the world.

2. Paper-cutting

Paper-cutting is one of the most popular traditional folk decorative arts in China, with a long history. Paper cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed a different local style schools. Paper cutting not only expresses the aesthetic preferences of the masses, but also contains the deep social psychology of the nation, and is one of China's most distinctive folk art, whose modeling characteristics are especially worth studying. Folk paper-cutting has comprehensive, beautifying and auspicious features in its expression, and at the same time, folk paper-cutting conveys the connotation and essence of traditional culture with its own specific expression language.

3, clay art

Clay art is an ancient and common folk art in China. It is made of clay as raw materials, handmade into shapes, or vegetarian or colorful, mainly figures, animals. China's clay art can be traced back to 4,000 to 10,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, prehistoric culture underground archaeology has been found in many places. China's clay art is the most famous Tianjin "mud people Zhang", Wuxi Huishan mud people, Dunhuang Grottoes colorful sculpture and so on. Today, the art of clay sculpture is the pursuit of people back to basics of the concrete portrayal.

4, weaving craft (China knot )

Weaving craft in China has a long history, as early as more than a thousand years ago, the Liao Dynasty has been a beautifully woven household goods. After the Qing Dynasty, it has spread to all areas of life, with a variety of weaving materials, such as wickerwork, rattan, sorghum poles, grass, bamboo, rope, metal, etc. In fact, Chinese knots are unique to China. In fact, the Chinese knot is unique to China's folk hand-knotted decorations, began in the ancient ancestors of the knotted rope to remember things, is a unique shape, colorful, rich in connotation of the traditional good-luck ornaments.

5, puppet

Puppet art in China has a long history of development, the earliest puppets may be related to the funeral figurines of the slave society. Puppetry is a form of theater in which artists operate puppets to perform stories, and puppetry in China emerged in the Han Dynasty.