What are the traditional handicrafts in China?

1, paper umbrellas, also known as oil paper umbrellas, is a traditional Han handicrafts, as originated in China, a paper or cloth umbrellas have nearly a thousand years of history. Paper umbrellas sophisticated craftsmanship, beautiful shape, lightweight and durable, rich local color, and off the lacquer, horn comb and known as Fuzhou "three treasures". In traditional Chinese weddings, when the bride gets married in a sedan chair, the matchmaker will cover the bride with a red oil paper umbrella to avoid evil spirits. Religious celebrations, also often see the oil paper umbrellas as a shelter on the palanquin, which is to take the meaning of its perfect, as people shelter from the sun and rain, to drive away the evil symbol of evil.

2, Chinese knot

"Rope" and "God" resonance, Chinese culture in the formative stage, once worshipped the rope. According to the text, "Nuwa drew the rope in the mud and lifted it up to make a human being." And because the rope resembles a coiled serpentine dragon, the Chinese are the heirs of the dragon, and the image of the dragon god, in prehistoric times, was embodied by changes in the knot.

The word "knot" is also a word that denotes strength, harmony, and full of emotion, giving all people a sense of reunion, intimacy, and warmth of beauty. "Knot" and "auspicious" resonance, "auspicious" is the eternal pursuit of mankind's theme, "knot" this has the vitality of the folk art is also As the essence of traditional Chinese culture, "knotting" is the eternal pursuit of mankind, and this kind of folk art with vitality has naturally flourished for a long time and has been handed down to the present day.

3, cloth

Cloth art:? That is, the art of cloth, is a magnificent Chinese folk crafts in a marvelous flower. Ancient Chinese folk cloth art is mainly used for clothing, shoes, hats, bed nets, hanging bags, backpacks and other small pieces of decoration (such as head scarves, incense bags, fan belts, purses, handkerchiefs, etc.), toys and so on. These daily life products are not only beautiful and generous, but also enhance the strength and wear-resistant ability of the fabric.

4, embroidery

Embroidery, also known as silk embroidery, is one of China's outstanding national traditional handicrafts. According to the Shangshu record in four thousand years ago, the chapter clothing system, the provisions of the "clothing painting and clothing embroidery"; another in the poetic scripture also has "plain Zhu embroidery" depiction. The Song Dynasty period advocate embroidery clothing style, has gradually become widely popular in the folk, which also prompted the development of Chinese silk embroidery technology. Ming Dynasty embroidery has become a very expressive works of art, has produced the so-called "Four Famous Embroideries" of Suzhou Embroidery, Guangdong Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery, Shu Embroidery.

5, palace lanterns, also known as the palace lanterns, in China has a history of thousands of years, to the present, the palace lanterns have become a must-have symbol of traditional Chinese culture. Palace lamps began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the prevalence of Sui and Tang dynasties, specific strong traditional flavor, palace lamps, as the name implies, is the court with the lamps, mainly fine wood as the skeleton inlaid with silk gauze and glass, and outside the painted with a variety of patterns of painted lamps, it is elegant, full of the court style and known around the world.

Because most of the palace court for the use of the late also have to be equipped with a variety of complex and fine decorative elements, from the side to show the emperor's luxury and valuable. Palace lamp modeling is divided into octagonal, hexagonal, quadrangular type, each screenshot of the painting screen pattern of the dragon and phoenix, Fukushu Kangnian, good luck and so on.