Introduction Of Chinese Handicrafts

Handicrafts is commonly known as "folk and crafts" and mainly a hand-produced arts

for meeting the life needs and aesthetic requirements of the folk working people with the local materials. There are developing numerous of handicrafts in China from ancient to now, such as paper cutting, Chinese knots, shadow puppets, brocade of Song Dynasty, bamboo plaiting, straw plaiting, embroidery, wood carving, clay sculpture and others.

As the different social history, customs, the geographical environment and aesthetic of various minorities and areas in China, the handicrafts from these places show different styles and fully demonstrate the Chinese hand-made art.

Hand-made arts have a long history in Chinese folk area and are the treasures of Chinese culture. They are widely famous at home and abroad for the long history, exquisite technique and variety categories. These traditional handicrafts are both the cultural art and daily necessaries that closely related with people's life which also have been on behalf of a major of industries in China.

Fashion hand-made crafts are popular in such a prosperous and modern society is indeed a very strange phenomenon. Some say that the reason is nostalgia and a recall for the manual time of past years. In the pursuit of personalized time now, hand-made crafts with its unique artistic charm, decorative and functional performances have already irresistible pop around us. They like the wind to infiltrate every aspect of our lives and bring a huge market prospects.

Now with the science and technology development, the machines as the production tool have replaced people's hand work; and more and more flourishes electronic accountings in our daily life can not only carry on operating mathematics accurately, but can translate one language to another; the modern robots' appearance can instead of people's hands to operate dangerous works or the experiments and engaged in the artistic creation, like writing, drawing, embroider, etc. We can imagine that our human traditional hand-made products will be replaced by those electronic products gradually. Therefore, the skills on making pottery, knitting...that related with people's daily life will be unknown slowly. The impact of modernization has made the traditional handicrafts which are gone from us quietly. Subsequently disappeared are the communication between people and objects, the harmony between life and nature. Though the modern machined crafts are dazzling on the markets, they have no the feeling of temperature and emotion which are left by people themselves.

However, there are still some artists who make a living with their own hand skills to design different handicrafts and popular in the world. These products which are produced by them are worthy for people to treasure and hope these skills could pass on from generation to generation.

by: venturiwang

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