Folk Arts and Festivities-Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the biggest holiday in China. Recorded in Li Ji – Yue Ling, Chinese New Year is the time when “air pressure of the sky comes down and air pressure of…
Category Chinese Folk Arts
Chinese folk arts
The Social Context of Folk Arts – Wedding Ceremonies
Traditional wedding is meant for the union of a male and a female, yin and title=”A large-scale “Happy baby” ball flower papercut yang, which lead to human propagation and perpetual life. The folk art works on custom wedding ceremony bear…
Social Context of Folk Arts – Birth
The carriers of folk art are folk social customs. The original philosophy and visual image based on folk art is the product of the Chinese community and has become ingrown in people’s social life. Its all time theme of life…
Totem
A ball flower paper-cut “Baby with coiled hair” is very popular among the folks on the loess plateau along the Yellow River basin. In the center of the ball is this baby with coiled hair, who is patron saint and…
Symbols of Visual Objects
The art form of Chinese folk art is the visual image of the objects in the universe, according to the original Chinese philosophy. In primitive society, human was on the weak side in the struggle against natural disasters. Animals with…
Life and Propagation – an All-time Theme
Folk social customs are the carriers of Chinese folk art which has numerous categories and a variety of art forms. However, despite all the categories and forms on the outside, the core lies within the basic cultural consciousness of the…