Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, window cutting or painting cutting. The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.

Mongolian embroidery

Mongolian embroidery mainly focuses on dress decoration, and patterns and patterns are circulated among nomadic people with Mongolian sewing skills such as signing, stretching, dazzling, sewing, collecting, carving, stabbing, hidden sewing and stretching, and cloud and water patterns. Embroidery of Mongolian costumes, yurts, saddles, etc. , with distinctive national characteristics, local characteristics and image, simple, cordial, exquisite and many other technical characteristics, gives people great appeal.

Mongolian pattern

The word pattern is collectively called "Hewugaraji" in Mongolian. From the perspective of Mongolian patterns, beautiful fantasy, artistic exaggeration and true description of life are the main characteristics of Mongolian patterns. Because the horn rolls of argali are beautiful, generally similar horn rolls are called "Ugaraji", and other types of patterns are called "He". With the development of daily-use handicrafts and pattern art, people refer to the modeling design and various patterns of all utensils as patterns. Therefore, pattern is the modeling and decoration of all objects in graphic design.

Alashan Buddhist stone carvings

Alashan Buddhist stone carvings are distributed in Guangzong Temple and Yin Fu Temple in Zuo Qi, Alashan, Inner Mongolia, and are the largest Buddhist stone carvings in Inner Mongolia. The Buddhist stone carvings in Alashan have distinct grassland cultural characteristics and Tibetan Buddhist cultural characteristics. They are the carriers of Tibetan Buddhist culture under the strong influence of the Sixth Dalai Lama Cangyang Gyatso himself. They have preserved the historical, cultural and artistic data of Tibetan Buddhism for more than 200 years and the technical data of Alashan Buddhist artists, and are a rare display for studying Alashan history, religious culture and national folk art.

Hanika

"hanika" is a kind of toy paper doll, which is a favorite toy of Daur girls. It consists of a paper-cut figure head and a conical human body. It can stand, a few centimeters to more than 20 centimeters high. When making "hanika", firstly, a piece of white paper is folded in half, and symmetrical heads of various characters "hanika" are cut out. Cut off your head and stick it on a stick. Its body part is a cone made of red, yellow and green paper. Insert a stick with a paper-cutting head into the upper part of the cone, and a "hanika" is formed. Then, according to the different "hanika" of men, women and children, it is matched with robes, vests and jackets cut with various colored papers, and various decorative laces are tied on the neckline, lapels, hem and cuffs; Also put on a hat, belt and so on for the male "hanika".

Mongolian costume pattern

Mongolian people have created many patterns with national style in their long-term production and life practice. Among them, there are animal and plant patterns with five animals, flowers and birds as the content, natural landscape patterns with mountains, water, clouds and fire as the content, and "Wuli Chicken (Auspicious)" patterns with good luck as the content. These folk patterns full of grassland life are diverse and beautiful.

Many places of Mongolian national costumes are decorated with various patterns. Such as hats, earmuffs, robes, vests, wrestling clothes, racing clothes, boots, shoes, tobacco bags, snuff bottles, bowl bags, sewing bags and so on. , are decorated with certain patterns.

From different sewing techniques, patterns can be divided into driving patterns, catching patterns, coiling patterns, embroidery patterns, applique patterns, cutting patterns, weaving patterns and so on. From the different design styles, it can be divided into Hanan pattern, Aruha pattern, moire pattern, scroll pattern, "Uliji" pattern, Hua Niaowen pattern, dragon and phoenix pattern, landscape pattern, butterfly pattern, glyph pattern and group pattern.

Dough modeling

Dough sculpture, commonly known as flour flower, steamed bread, flower cake and dough mixer. It uses glutinous rice flour as the main material, mixes it into different colors, and shapes various vivid images with hands and simple tools. In the old society, dough sculptors "walked around in tears just to make a living", carrying boxes and walking around towns and villages, which were deeply loved by the masses, but their works were regarded as gadgets and could not be put on the elegant stage. Nowadays, dough sculpture art is valued as a precious intangible cultural heritage, and gadgets have also entered the art hall. The dough kneading artist takes materials at will as needed, and after several times of kneading, rubbing and lifting in his hands, he skillfully uses a small bamboo knife to place, cut, carve, describe and shape his body, hands and head, and puts on hair ornaments and clothes, so that he can get rid of the vivid artistic image in an instant.

Figure Shi Ye Tuwangfu embroidery

The costume embroidery of Tushiyetu Wangfu originated in Qing Dynasty, which is a Mongolian folk arts and crafts skill inherited from Tushiyetu Wangfu. At present, there is only one inheritor of this embroidery skill, that is, Zhang Chunhua, a Mongolian woman who lives in Daiqin Tarasumu, Keyou Zhongqi. Her grandmother Chaganwala is an excellent embroiderer in Tushiyetu Palace. She designs patterns and makes embroidery for the princes and princesses in the court, and the number is strictly limited, no more than one. After the establishment of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the "Wang", a product of the feudal era, was also abolished, so that these crafts dared to be passed on to granddaughters, and the previous embroidery crafts were spread to the people.

Zhalute embroidery

Zhalute Mongolian embroidery originated in Yuan Dynasty, which is a very precious artistic wealth in Mongolian cultural heritage. Mongolian embroidery mainly focuses on dress decoration, and patterns and patterns are circulated among nomadic people with Mongolian sewing skills such as signing, stretching, dazzling, sewing, collecting, carving, stabbing, hidden sewing and stretching, and cloud and water patterns. Embroidery of Mongolian costumes, yurts, saddles, etc. It has many technical characteristics such as distinctive sympathetic thermoplasticity, local characteristics and image, simplicity, kindness and exquisiteness, which gives people great appeal.

Wu Jia clay sculpture

The clay sculptures in Wu Jia are quite different from those in the North and South. It has neither the realism of "Tianjin clay figurine Zhang" nor the delicate decorative feeling of Huishan clay figurine, but it has the roughness and simplicity beyond the Great Wall. Wu Jia clay sculpture is a folk craft based on a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral society, and it is the product of the blending of grassland culture and Central Plains culture. Its theme, content and forms of expression all have strong local flavor and local characteristics. Theme selection, production technology and color application tend to be simple, rough and heavy.

The most vivid process of clay sculpture in Wu Jia is to draw the eyes of clay figurines. Wu Wensheng said that everyone's eyes are different. Some people draw eyes that look forward to life, while others draw eyes that are stupefied. Although everyone can make clay sculptures, not many people can really draw good eyes. At that time, hundreds of people in the village made clay sculptures, and only three or four people painted their eyes most vividly. So when the family made clay figurines, they took eggs and begged these three or four people to draw their eyes. One egg can draw two or three clay figurines' eyes. Vivid eyes, rough and simple shapes and bright colors are the main features of Wu Jia clay sculpture.

Kang waihua

Kangwei painting is a kind of folk interior decoration painting, also known as "wall painting". It is very popular in northern China. As a strong regional plastic arts form in Shanxi local culture, it is a synthesis of murals, architectural paintings and New Year pictures. It is distributed in southeastern Shanxi, Lvliang, Jinzhong, Xinzhou and Yanbei, among which the paintings around Kangping in Yuanping and Daixian are the most famous.

Daur embroidery:

Embroidery is another important aspect of Daur traditional folk art, and learning embroidery is one of the most important contents for girls approaching marriage age. The embroidery level of pillows, cloth shoes and tobacco bags brought by the bride when she gets married has always been an important content for people to evaluate the bride.

Apart from Ping Xiu and patchwork embroidery, folding embroidery is the most distinctive embroidery technique. Embroidery patterns are mostly geometric patterns, auspicious patterns, characters in folk stories, flowers and birds in nature.