Pingxiang along the mid-stream of the Yangtze River is a border area of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, situated right in...
Chinese Traditlonal Crafts
China is the birthplace of wood block printing, and Chinese woodcut painting, also the earliest ever invented, enjoys high reputation in...
Telling stories of the ancient times over a curtain frame; playing music and beating drums under the stage light; the...
Career folk artists are creators who engage in folk art to make a living. They are already separated, or semi-separated,...
The creators of Chinese folk art come from millions of labourers among the People. They include both "the dexterous-hands"who engage...
For Chinese, red and white are colors for life and death. Red is for celebrating wedding and giving birth; and...
In folk art, art decoration features using live figures like plants and animals, or natural symbols, in place of lifeless...
The tiger image created by folk artists is not the natural image of a tiger at a specific time and...
Western artists tend to utilize focused perspective, and the literati employ traditional prosaic perspective. Following a style different from either,...
On Chinese New Year of the year of rat, a woman farmer named Li Aiping sent me a paper-cut of...
Chinese folk art is vastly different from Western traditional art in philosophy concept, art structure and form, and color composition....
The image of yin-yang fairy and gourd in the shape of half fish, half bird can be traced back to...
Daily-use appliance, besides its practical function, is interpreted as a symbol in folk custom and folk art. Umbrella-its shape reminds...
The theme of transportation is to "travel safe. "Art works for decoration on vehicles and horses are mostly symbols of...
What is the theme of human birth? First it is to know where life comes from; and then to wish that...
Baby with coiled hair-A ball flower paper-cut "Baby with coiled hair" is very popular among the folks on the Loess Plateau...
The art form of Chinese folk art is the visual image of the objects in the universe, according to the...
Folk social customs are the carriers of Chinese folk art which has numerous categories and variety of art forms. However,...
Chinese folk art is a visual art created by ordinary people to meet ordinary social needs. The definition of folk...
The people living in many Miao nationality areas in China are still singing an ancient song "The Song of Wax Printing"...