Introduce handicrafts
Paper sculpture, also known as paper relief. The ancient paper carving art, which originated from Han Dynasty in China, was mainly bred in the soil of folk art and developed slowly but never stopped. Although its form has not changed, it has not lost its innovative spirit.
Among them, the paper-carved lanterns with strong folk charm, on the basis of drawing lessons from the artistic modeling of palace lanterns, created a classic chapter of paper-carved art in China. Paper sculpture, also called paper relief. Its origin can be traced back to the invention of paper in Han Dynasty in China and the improvement of German paper in16th century.
2. Wuxi Huishan clay figurine
Wuxi Huishan clay figurine is a specialty of Huishan Ancient Town in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, and a symbolic product of chinese national geography.
Wuxi Huishan clay figurine, located by the Grand Canal in China, has a history of 400 years. Zhang Dai, an essayist in the late Ming Dynasty, recorded the sale of clay figurines in shops in Gong Yu Valley in Volume 7 of Tao An Meng Yi.
The unique Huishan black clay, to a certain extent, determines the choice of production technology and technical conditions, affects the variety and quality of clay figurines, and affects the formation of styles, which is also one of the basic material conditions for the longevity of Huishan clay figurines.
In the early days, Huishan residents made clay figurines as a family sideline. In the slack season, they use this clay to knead small animals such as Dong, Xiao Shouxing, Xiao Buddha, Luohan, Ni Afu, chicken, dog and goose.
Huishan clay figurine is made by kneading, picking, pinching, printing, photographing, cutting, wrapping, pressing, pasting, embedding, drawing, board, inserting silk, pushing, wiping and pasting, and then carving clothes, costumes, hairstyles and headdresses.
3. Spring can
Spring pot was made by a famous sand pot artist in Yixing, Jiangsu Province during Zheng De and Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that his surname is Gong and his name is Chun. Gong Chun is an official's extremely bookish.
When Gong Chun accompanied his master to study in Jinsha Temple in Yixing, an old monk in the temple was good at making teapots, so Gong Chun secretly learned. Later, he washed the soil deposited at the bottom of the jar with the hands of the old monk, imitated the shape of the gall of the big ginkgo tree next to Jinsha Temple, made a jar, and carved patterns on the gall.
After firing, this kind of pot is very simple and lovely, so this kind of teapot that imitates the natural form suddenly became famous, and people called it the spring pot.
4. Longquan Kiln Porcelain in Song Dynasty
Longquan kiln products are mainly daily celadon in folk life. Celadon in the Northern Song Dynasty is light in color, green in glaze and thin and even in enamel. Most of them use decorative techniques such as carving, dots or strokes, showing waves, banana leaves, bunches of flowers, tied flowers, flowing clouds, baby play and other patterns.
And plastic stickers. The utensils are mainly bowls, plates and pots, but there are also a few pots, bowls, cans and bottles. Dignified shape, neat production and smooth bottom.
5. Ming and Qing colored porcelain
Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of the high development and prosperity of colored porcelain in China. Colored porcelain can be divided into two categories: over-glaze color and under-glaze color. The history of underglaze painting can be traced back to Changsha kiln in Tang Dynasty.
The porcelain tires painted in Changsha Kiln are brown, green and blue, and the patterns are composed of dots, flowers and birds, figures, animals, poems and so on. With skillful techniques and beautiful composition, it has opened up a new road for porcelain decoration. However, Changsha kiln burned green glaze and underglaze painted porcelain, which was very different from later white glaze and thin tire painted porcelain.