What are the more famous traditional crafts of Hakka?

The Hakka roundhouse

Remember the previous article has introduced the Hakka characteristic building - roundhouse? Here is not too much to introduce, want to understand the partners please move to the previous article, it is worth mentioning that its construction techniques are national intangible cultural heritage!

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Painting craft

Painting craft is widely spread in the Hakka folklore, and there are many famous artists. For example, Shangguan Zhou of Changting, Huang Shen of Ninghua, Huayan of Shanghang, and Li Can of Wuping are all famous in China and abroad. Especially Shangguan Zhou's "Evening Laughing Hall Painting Biography" is quite influential. The main types of paintings are prints, murals, calligraphy, egg paintings, iron paintings, portraits, and so on.

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Printmaking

One form of painting. The picture is carved or etched on the plate with a knife or chemicals, etc., and then copied on paper. There are woodblock, lithograph, copper plate, zinc plate, hemp glue plate and other varieties, since 1931, advocated by Lu Xun emerging woodcut, began to have a prints created in China.

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China's several in the printmaking community has an important position: located in northeastern Guangdong Province, Xingning City, Xingning printmaking is the art of printmaking, Hakka traditional art and the requirements of the times combined with the mass of the art; Chenghai City, Chenghai mass printmaking creative activities have a more excellent tradition. Chenghai City, Chenghai mass printmaking creative activities have a good tradition, in 1996 Chenghai was named by the Ministry of Culture of the State as the "hometown of printmaking art"; there are also located in the forest area of northern Fujian has long been in the province and outside of the reputation of the city of Jian'ou and is located in the northern border of Fujian Songxi County.

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Mural painting

Mural painting, art on the wall, that is, people painted directly on the wall. Primitive society human beings in the cave wall carved all kinds of graphics to remember the expression, is the earliest frescoes. As an accessory part of the building, the decorative and beautifying function of frescoes makes it an important aspect of environmental art. Frescoes are one of the earliest forms of painting in human history.

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As early as the Han Dynasty, there are records of painting on the wall, mostly in the grotto, tomb or temple walls, to the present combined with modern crafts and cultural flavor, wall painting more and more diversified, personalized development, and more people in the renovation of the application. A good muralist can give a house a soul and life. Hundreds of birds facing the phoenix, the unicorn playing ball, flowers blossoming ...... these auspicious things imprinted in the Hakka houses, not only decorates the house, but also decorates the people's mind.

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Egg painting

Commonly known as egg painting. Chicken and duck eggshells are strictly sterilized and painted. The paintings are divided into three categories: landscape, birds and flowers, and people, and the picture is fresh and simple, exquisite and lovely. Eggshells upside down, around the view, giving a sense of three-dimensional. The outside of the group of paintings is covered with a delicate glass frame, which is unique.

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It is said that egg paintings were sold at the Suzhou temple fair in the Qing Dynasty.