China's top ten traditional handicrafts, see what have been passed down

1, ceramics: China is the world's earliest application of one of the countries of the pottery, and Chinese porcelain because of its extremely high practicality and artistry highly respected by the world. Today, in the ceramic craftsmen's **** with the efforts of many of the lost skills re-inherited.

2, wood carving: wood carving is a kind of sculpture, as early as seven thousand years ago, Hemudu culture period on the emergence of wood carving fish, to the Tang Dynasty, wood carving process is to reach the peak of development. After thousands of years of inheritance of wood carving craft still need young blood to inherit and protect.

3, lacquer: China is the first country in the world to discover and use natural lacquer, from ancient times to the present, Chinese lacquer craft has formed a number of schools, of which Fuzhou lacquerware is one of the "three treasures" of Chinese traditional crafts, and its technology is worth passing on.

4, cloisonné: cloisonné was born in the palace, because of its prevalence in the Ming Dynasty during the period of Jingtai, the production technology is more mature, the use of enamel glaze is mostly blue, so it got this name.

5. Jade Carving: Jade carving is a craft made of processed and carved jade, which is a unique technique in China with a long history of development and distinctive characteristics of the times, and jade carving has different shapes and characteristics in different dynasties. Jade as the spiritual totem of the Chinese people, jade carving craft is more widely developed in folklore and better inherited.

6. Embroidery: Embroidery is a craft of using embroidery needles to draw colorful threads, embroidering and running needles on textiles with designed patterns, and constituting floral motifs with embroidery traces, which has a history of more than 2,000 years in China. Today, silk handicrafts made with embroidery techniques represent traditional Chinese handicrafts.

7, Chinese knot: Chinese knot is China's unique hand-woven crafts, the earliest from the Paleolithic era of sewing knots, and later developed to the Han Dynasty rituals and records, and then evolved to the present day decorative crafts.

8, paper-cutting: China's earliest paper-cutting works is the Northern Dynasties period of the five flower group paper-cutting, to the Tang Dynasty paper-cutting in the period of great development, the Southern Song Dynasty is the emergence of paper-cutting as a profession of the industry artists. Paper cutting is one of the most popular folk crafts in China, uniting the history and culture of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

9, Liuli: the ancient production of Liuli is difficult, so that people at that time Liuli is more precious than jade. Because of its color flow clouds Li color, the quality of crystal clear, so has always belonged to the royal family only, in the civil circulation of the glaze manufacturing technology is very little. For such a precious and endangered skills, it is more worthwhile to protect and inherit.

10, bamboo weaving: bamboo weaving first appeared in the Neolithic era, when people in order to store the remaining food, the branches of plants woven into baskets, baskets and other utensils, to the Ming and Qing dynasties, bamboo weaving process has been fully developed. Today, bamboo weaving not only has practical value, but also rich in artistic ornamental.