What are the types of traditional Chinese folk art?
Folk art forms include lion dance, dragon lanterns, floats, land boats, stilts, drums, Yangko, etc. Peking Opera, paper-cutting, clay sculpture, face-changing, shadow puppets, Kunqu Opera, Hebei Bangzi, ventriloquism, etc.
Chinese Folk Arts and Crafts
Chinese folk arts and crafts have a long history and are rich in content. Most of these handicrafts are related to folklore, and the materials include ceramics, clay sculptures, fabrics, wood, lanterns, pendants, Lijiang woodcuts, birch bark crafts, lacquer crafts, animal skin crafts, inkstone crafts, and bamboo weaving crafts , lacquer pottery, jade crafts, marble crafts,
Tujia boxwood carvings, porcelain, kites, paper-cutting, straw paintings, New Year paintings, pencil scraps paintings, thangkas, rubbing paintings, silver
Decoration, paper weaving, Suzhou embroidery, fish skin clothing, etc. Most of the contents are about lively and uplifting spirit, good luck, long life and health, abundant wealth, full of children and grandchildren, etc. They are used for traditional folk festivals, traditional religions and ethnic ornaments. These folk handicrafts are widely circulated, lively and interesting, and represent the traditional culture and daily activities of the Chinese people. The Chinese Folk Art website selects some fine works in this special category to introduce to you for appreciation and reference.
Chinese folk painting art
Chinese folk painting art is the artistic treasure of the Chinese nation, an important part of Chinese folk culture, and a treasure in world culture and art. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, Chinese folk painting art has gradually developed into modern folk painting that has a distinct sense of the times and is rich in the charm of life. The Chinese Folk Art website selects some representative ones in this special category for everyone to appreciate and refer to.
Chinese Folklore
Our country is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious area, and different ethnic groups and even different surnames and families have different religious beliefs. "Cili County Chronicle" records: "The mountains outside the screen that Dayong admires rarely see the light of day, but they are also tolerant and prick their skin to bleed in order to serve the gods. There are thousands of people, which is ridiculous." "Yuezhou Prefecture Chronicles" by Longqing of the Ming Dynasty " also records: "In the Yuanli River Basin, the common people believe in ghosts and like to perform sacrifices. The sacrifices must have witches and monks singing and dancing to entertain the gods." The "Genealogy of the Zhen Family" of the Qing Dynasty also described the religious beliefs in the Wulingyuan area: "The common people believe in ghosts and worship ghosts." Witches worship ghosts, serve gods such as kings and policemen, take the early morning Nuo vows as their top priority, respect wizards, compete with gods, blow horns, dance with war drums..." This is the characteristic of our country's national religious beliefs. Historically, the ancestors of Chinese families have experienced the historical stage of "animism" and "totem" belief. Due to the introduction of Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Catholicism, it gradually evolved into a variety of worship. to what we call folk customs today.
Chinese Folk Artists
One day, I came to Guangxi Tengxian Museum to visit. The museum's predecessor was the Li Zhenya Conference Hall built in 1979. In 1986, it was converted into the National Art Museum of the Republic of China and opened to the public. The museum contains a collection of national art works created by China's most famous artists and famous poets, as well as a collection of several kinds of works by Chinese folk artists. It is known as one of the famous art museums in China. Now our Chinese Folk Art website mainly promotes the outstanding and splendid folk art heritage of the Chinese nation, protects the sustainable development of Chinese folk art culture, and further excavates, organizes, inherits, and studies Chinese folk art, especially the ancient ethnic songs and dances that are on the verge of being lost. , ancient music art, etc.
Chinese Folk Film and Television Art
In the history of human art development so far, the most glorious chapter is probably the film art that was born and gradually matured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the subsequent The art of television produced. As a new art category, film and television art, with the help of the magic of photoelectricity, reproduces images and sounds that are close to real life on the screen. This not only realizes the popularization of information transmission, but also makes the most extensive and common content The artistic content of life experience is integrated into the process of communication and acceptance. It makes people's spiritual world expression and entertainment life unprecedentedly rich and colorful.
Chinese folk dance art
Folk dance art has a long history. It was produced in the Neolithic Age 5,000 years ago. It has developed from generation to generation and has been passed down to this day. Its types vary from region to region, and its content varies. Very rich.
The dances "Running Curtain" and "Running Formation Dance" evolved from the Chen Bing formation in ancient wars. "Fighting the Unicorn" and "Carrying the Box Dance" reflect the ancient struggle between man and beast. "Dragon Dance", "Lion Dance", "Qilin Dance", "Driving the Donkey", "Bamboo Horse Dance" and "Cat and Butterfly Dance" are typical simulated dances. "Spring Cow" and "Iron Dance" imitate the scenes of people's productive labor. "Eight Beautiful Pictures", "Lotus Lantern", "Chrysanthemum Lantern", "Land Boat Dance", "Stilt Dance", etc. express the working people's yearning for a better life. The large-scale mass dances "Yangko Dance" and "Waist Drum Dance" are revolutionary dances produced during the War of Liberation. "Raising the Pavilion" and "Elbow Pavilion" are typical prop dances. The shocking "Inspiration" and "Big Bronze Dance" are spectacular and passionate. The use of props for performance, the combination of singing and dancing, and the use of virtual and symbolic expression techniques are obvious features of Central Plains folk dance. The Chinese Folk Art website selects some representative ones in this special category for everyone to appreciate and refer to.
Chinese folk opera art
Drama is a traditional Chinese drama form.
It is a combination of various factors including literature, music, dance, art, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. It has a long history of origin. After more than 800 years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development, it has gradually formed a relatively complete system of opera art. Although its origins come from three different art forms: folk singing and dancing, rapping, and burlesque, the biggest feature that distinguishes a type of opera is that it comes from different vocal systems. These musical tunes are based on the languages, folk songs, and folk music of the regions where they are produced, and incorporate music from other regions. Most of the characters in various dramas are played by different roles such as Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou and so on. The performance focuses on the use of programmed movements based on life and virtual space processing. It pays attention to the art of singing, acting, reciting and finding, and the performance and transportation are rich in dance. It is highly technical and constitutes a complete opera art system that is different from other dramas.
According to incomplete statistics, there are about 360 kinds of operas in various ethnic regions in my country, and there are tens of thousands of traditional plays. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many adapted traditional plays appeared. New historical plays and modern plays showing modern life themes were warmly welcomed by the audience. The more popular and famous opera types include: Peking Opera, Kun Opera, Yue Opera, Henan Opera, Hunan Opera, Cantonese Opera, Qin Opera, Sichuan Opera, Ping Opera, Jin Opera, Han Opera, Teochew Opera, Fujian Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Huangmei Opera, Hunan Flower Drum Opera...and more than fifty types of operas. In particular, Peking Opera is the most popular, spreading all over the country and not restricted by region.
Chinese folk T stage
On the "T" stage, beautiful fashion show models in ancient costumes and passionate pop singers formed a simple, mysterious and vivid new scene. scene. An avant-garde and modern fashion icon and a unique and unique landscape are presented to the modern people. Each performance will reinterpret the beauty of Chinese classical costumes and the cultural connotation of ancient costume art.
Chinese folk architectural gardens
Chinese garden architectural art is the most distinctive in world culture. It develops together with other categories of Chinese traditional culture and is an important part of Chinese traditional culture. . It has experienced a historical development process of more than two thousand years and has extremely rich literary and aesthetic connotations. Its development can be roughly divided into three periods: the "natural period" in the pre-Qin and Qin-Han periods. This period is the development period from "environment" to "garden", which is characterized by a wide area of ??land, huge projects, and an increase in artificial facilities; the Tang Dynasty During the formation period of classical gardens in the Song Dynasty, the development process of Chinese gardens began in the Han Dynasty. After the transition from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the unification of China in the Sui Dynasty, two characteristics emerged in the development of gardens. First, attention was paid to the construction of gardens. Secondly, the development of painting technology and the development of gardening art promote each other. The outstanding achievement during the formation period was the combination of gardening with literature and painting. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of Chinese classical gardens. By now, Chinese garden architectural art had three characteristics: full functionality, multiple forms, and artistry.
Chinese folk furniture
Chinese folk furniture is an important part of Chinese culture. It is a "splendid poem composed of wood". It has a long history, a self-contained system and a strong National style and Chinese characteristics. When ancient Chinese furniture developed into the Tang Dynasty, with the popularity of sitting on one's feet, chairs and stools furniture developed. In the Song Dynasty, high-end furniture was finalized. Indoor furnishings, chairs, tables and tables, and craftsmanship and technology became increasingly mature. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the golden age of traditional Chinese furniture; not only did lacquer furniture with thousands of patterns develop to an unprecedented historical peak, but Ming-style furniture, which was mature and prominent in the history of ancient Chinese furniture, and rich and outstanding Qing-style furniture were produced. Furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties used high-grade hardwood as the main material, abandoning the lacquer processing method that had been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese furniture. The elegant material, natural texture and smooth color of the wood itself gave rise to a new kind of furniture. The charm, quality and unique aesthetic value, and the use of exquisite craftsmanship, make the structure of the furniture a perfect combination of science and worldly skills, thus setting up a shining monument in the history of world furniture.
Chinese folk costumes
Chinese folk costumes are of various types and colors. They are a concrete embodiment of traditional national culture and aesthetic consciousness. In the long process of historical development, people living in different regions have Different ethnic groups have created and formed their own different clothing customs, which play an important role in the composition of national folk customs. National costumes embody national culture and are one of the important external characteristics that distinguish a nation.
Chinese folk jewelry
In this vast land of our country, there live ancient nations that have been passed down through the ages. These ancient peoples, with their diligence and wisdom, created many folk ornaments. It still preserves the oldest folk ornaments in the world. Our China Folk Art Network displays fine folk art ornaments.
After watching it, many people expressed their sincere admiration for Chinese folk art