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1. crafts:34 kinds of most collectable chinese arts and crafts
China has a long history and crafts are emerging in an endless stream.The following
products are most representative.
1, ceramic
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Chinese ceramics is the treasure of Chinese culture Treasury, is the most rich national
characteristics of daily crafts.With the development of Chinese history, foreign
economic and cultural exchanges, ceramic art spread to the world, many countries
porcelain craft development is directly or indirectly affected by the Chinese ceramic
craft.Ceramics and tea, silk and known as China's three specialties and famous at
home and abroad.
2,Tang tri-colored glazed pottery
Tri-colored glazed pottery of the tang dynasty is a kind of pottery popular in the tang
dynasty, with yellow, brown and green as the basic glaze color. Later people used to

2. call this kind of pottery "tri-colored glazed pottery of the tang dynasty".Tri-colored
glazed pottery of the tang dynasty originated in xi 'an, luoyang and yangzhou.
3, enamel
There are two main types of enamelware. One is the enamelware with corded wire
and copper foils from Persia.Since then, cloisonne has become the name for copper -
feted wire - cutting enamel ware.
The other is the art of painting enamel from Europe, which was introduced to China
during the reign of emperor kangxi in the qing dynasty.
Enamel color porcelain is in the emperor kangxi personally inspired by the creation of
a new variety, because imitation in copper painting enamel ware, so enamel color also
known as porcelain painting enamel.Enamel color porcelain production is different
from other porcelain, first by jingdezhen royal kiln factory produced quality plain
tires, sent to the palace, then by the palace painter painting, and finally by the qing
palace office of the enamel workshop for the second firing.
Enamel color production and development mainly in the kangyonggan three
dynasties, is a very rare imperial palace, the past commonly known as "ancient
yuexuan" porcelain.
4, Coloured glaze

3. Coloured glaze, "take stone as qualitative, with saltpetre and it.Reefs are wrought with
iron, copper, iron, lead and lead.No stone without some glass.Non - copper red lead is
not fine, and then sanhe.It is in this way that fire is born, and its mystery also comes
from the baptism of fire.The crafts is beyond the reach of ordinary materials.Of
coloured glaze art bizarre, transparent, limpid.
Coloured glaze is a kind of ancient Chinese law material since ancient times has been
used by the royal family, the user has extremely strict level requirements, so the civil
is very rare.
Colored glaze is known as the first of China's five famous vessels (gold and silver,
jade jade, colored glaze, ceramics, bronze) and one of the seven treasures of
Buddhism."Bright make" carry: the adornment that the emperor awards to bestow
number one scholar is medicine jade, 4 goods above ability have.
5, glass
During the reign of emperor guangxu of the qing dynasty, more than 7,000 carryels of
glass products were exported to foreign countries every year, with dozens of kinds of
products, such as qing, jade, screen, chess pieces, rosary beads, fish bottles, hairpins,
gourds, inkstones and buddhist eyes.Some of the beads were exported to southeast
Asian countries, and some were also exported to North America, where they were
popular with the indians.
Decorative techniques are mostly carved, painted, gilt and enamel, representative
works are wrapped silk glass bottles.Due to the unique Chinese style and exquisite
crafts, the glassware of the qing dynasty was greatly appreciated by people from all
over the world.
Some of the largest museums in Europe and North America have collections of
Chinese court glassware from the qing dynasty, especially from the qianlong period.
6, Silk person

4. Silk figure is a traditional national crafts of our country, which is shaped by silk. The
whole body of the figure is made of top to bottom clothes, cloth and silk flowers on
the head, palace lanterns and silk fans are all made of fine silk, silk yarn and silk.So
silk production of raw materials is very elegant.
Most of the silk figure works are based on the ancient handmaidens, dramatic figures
and folk dances in Chinese folk stories.Therefore, it has extremely strong traditional
style and national style.
7, Chinese knot art
Chinese knot art is a unique folk craft knitting art in China. With its unique Oriental
charm and colorful changes, it fully embodies the wisdom and profound cultural
deposits of the Chinese people.
Every knot is made of a piece of silk thread from beginning to end, and every basic
knot is named according to its shape and meaning.The knot that ACTS the role of
different is united in wedlock each other together, or with other the decorations

5. collocation combination that has auspicious design, formed modelling distinctive,
flowery and colorful, implied meaning is deep, the Chinese tradition with rich
connotation is lucky adornment article.
Such as "ji qing yu", "fushou shuangquan", "shuangxi linmen", "jixiang ruyi", "yilu
fengshun" and other combinations, are warm and strong good wishes, praise and
convey heartfelt prayer and wish of the good work.
8, the paper-cut
Paper cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China, often used in religious
ceremonies, decorative arts and plastic arts.Paper cutting art generally has symbolic
meaning and is also part of this ritual.
In addition, paper cutting is also used as an ornament for offering sacrifices to
ancestors and gods.Meet New Year festival or newly-married festival, people sticks
beautiful and bright-coloured paper-cut on wall, window, door paper, wall flower,
ceiling flower, lantern, festal atmosphere is rendered very full-bodied festival.Paper
cutting itself can also be given as a gift to others.There are two common methods of
paper cutting: scissors and scissors.
9, bronze

6. In ancient China, bronze ware was mostly referred to from the late shang dynasty to
the early western zhou dynasty, which was the heyday of the development of bronze
ware.Later, bronze began to thin body, decorative gradually simplified.
There is no place in the world where bronze wares can be compared with ancient
Chinese ones in terms of scale of use, casting techniques, plastic arts and
varieties.This is also one of the reasons why ancient Chinese bronze ware occupies a
unique position in the history of world art and has aroused universal attention.
10, jade
Jade has a long history and unique meaning.Jade, containing the ancient people's
endless pursuit of ideals and spiritual yearning, through the ages, people put all the
beautiful things to jade.
The ancients said, "if the jade is not cut, it will not become a valuable tool." its
original meaning is to say that the jade can become a valuable treasure after
processing.
11, gold

7. This kind of precious metal has magical power, it is scarce, precious, value is stable, it
is the symbol of wealth and status, it is the target that people pursues all the time and
position is long flourishing.Owning gold is equivalent to owning wealth, which is
determined by the unique characteristics of gold. The luxury of gold makes people use
it as a jewelry decoration.
12, silver
Silver is a precious metal with moderate hardness, ductility, easy to be hammered into
shape, bright natural color and not easy to be oxidized or discolorated. It is a good
material for making crafts.Silver articles are often hidden in folk households.
13, pearl

8. Pearl is representing satisfactory and auspicious, use pearl to act the role ofing to be
able to reflect elegant ethical amorous feelings, let a person appear very high and
easy.
14, Potted plants made of jade and jewelry
Some bonsai top red fruit with coral beads system, narcissus is white jade flowers,
sapphire do leaves.Rubies and pearls for lace, the center of the peakstone
mountain.The pines with pearls set in golden thread and the longevity stones and
ganoderma with rubies set in golden thread.Peach to hibiscus stone, tourmaline, wax
and other red, pink gem production.Chinese rose with copper branches and leaves,
branches gilded, leaves dot blue, with color materials, coral petals, hibiscus stone
flower buds.Panoramic meaning vivid, quite xiao zhenhua.
This kind of bonsai is used in the palace queen birthday display treasures or the
birthday of the emperor's birthday by the officials.
15, Filament Mosaic

9. Filigree inlaying is a traditional crafts in China. It processes precious metals such as
gold and silver into fine wires and shapes them with techniques such as base pushing,
wire pinching and weaving. It also inlays patterns on the filigree and then inlays
beautiful colored beads, jade and gemstones or collocates with cloisonne craft.
Filament Mosaic is a traditional palace art, its process is complex and cumbersome,
the big process on the points of pinch, fill, save, welding, piling, piling, weaving,
weaving eight.A good work is not one person can make, need every process on the
level of workers are very high.
16, bone carving
There is a long history of bone carving. The ancients sharpened the bone into needles
and knives and carved words and patterns on the bones.Bone carving is a very
exquisite crafts, through the different knife carving out of the three-dimensional
figures, flowers and birds and so on.
Choose high grade pure natural horn makings, its quality of a material is exquisite,
colour and lustre is natural, carve finely, magical form beauty, give a person with
distinctive primitive simplicity, natural beauty.Exquisite sculpture art, with a strong
central plains cultural style and regional characteristics.
17, Ivory carving

10. Ivory carving is a crafts carved with ivory and the teeth of other animals. Its
techniques are basically the same as those of bamboo carving and wood carving.
The shape of the objects to the penholder, arm shelf, penholder, screen and so
on.Ivory carving technology has a long history in China. During the Ming and qing
dynasties, due to the expansion of economic and cultural exchanges across South Asia
and Africa, ivory raw materials were also introduced into China. With Beijing,
yangzhou and guangzhou as the center, China's unique ivory carving transmission
technology was developed.
There are many kinds of ivory carvings in the qing dynasty, ranging from fan bones,
incense, flower arrangement and pen container, to bonsai with flowers, landscape
figures, giant dragon boats and even a screen.Carved ivory works of art, solid and
fine, soft and smooth, are highly prized by connoisseurs.
18,egg decorating

11. Egg carving is a set of art, calligraphy, sculpture and many other techniques and one
of the art.The design and creation of egg carving is totally different from other
carving because of the limitation of the eggshell and its fragile texture.The author is
required to have a solid foundation of fine arts and sculpture, steady hand, under the
knife.Especially in the critical point of the work, a little careless will be wasted, a few
days of the heart is also lost.
As an alternative art in the field of craft carving, egg carving is completely different
from other kinds of carving in terms of design concept and creation techniques. Every
piece of work can only succeed after many failures.
19, shell carving
Shell carving is the choice of these colored shells, skillfully with its natural color and
texture, shape, cut, grinding, polishing, stacking, paste and other processes carefully
carved into flat paste, semi-relief, Mosaic, three-dimensional and other forms and
specifications of crafts.
20, rhino horn carving
Rhinoceros horn from the south Tibetan Tibet, yunnan also have.Grain such as roe,
said of corn;Millet grain has an eye in, call millet eye.All vessels should be
moistened, corn grain blossoms good.

12. Carved rhinoceros horn Ming and qing dynasties, as a result of the development of
arts and crafts by leaps and bounds, carving technology has reached a new peak,
exquisite carving art extended to the horn material, so that many shapes, different
patterns of rhinoceros horn cup stand out, famous in the world.
Ming dynasty carved rhino horn products are very eye-catching.Carver artists use the
shape of the tip of the horn flat bottom, carved into different patterns of cups, jugs and
other wine.
21, wood
There are circular, relief, engraving or several techniques.Some are painted to protect
the wood and beautify.Generally choose the texture of fine tenacious, not easy to
deformation of the tree species such as nanmu, rosewood, camphor, cypress, ginkgo,
agarwood, rosewood, longan and other architectural decoration wood carving, there
are many folk legends, opera, historical stories as the theme of the works;
Appreciation sex woodcarving pays attention to the aesthetic feeling that develops
woodiness itself, form spends potential, because material is satisfied, become the
artwork that people loves.Door window, hang piece, beautiful board, screen, bright
qing dynasty furniture, wall hang, figure of Buddha, picture frame wait for of all
kinds sculpture wood art to taste exquisite work, do not lose classic lasting appeal
again with distinctive feature.
22, lacquer

13. Lacquerware is bright, clean, washable, light weight, heat insulation, corrosion
resistance, inlaid and painted in a variety of colours, usually in black or black,
forming a colourful world on the surface of the object with beautiful patterns.
The han dynasty was the heyday of lacquer ware.The variety of lacquerware added
boxes, plates, cases, earrings, dishes, bowls, baskets, boxes, feet, spit POTS, masks,
chessboards, stools, danger, several, etc. At the same time, new techniques were also
created, such as colorful needle carving, copper buckle, gold plate, hawksbill plate,
inlay, pile paint and many other decorative techniques.
23, nuclear carving
Nuclear carving is a traditional Chinese folk craft, using guangdong's "wuhang" olive
stone, carved on it a variety of fine figure pictures, since the Ming and qing dynasties,
to the collection of lovers love for the past dynasties.
Ming dynasty notes writer Wei Xue the nuclear boat, and describes the artist Wang
Shuyuan creation "su dongpo boating on red cliff", is "have no surplus" "olive nuclear
carved on a boat, a small boat with su dongpo, LuZhi, fo Yin, the boatman and child
son five characters, different expression, decoration and furnishing articles are on

14. board, character folds floating, 4 times the size of a grain of ship window can open
easily, surprise.
24, bamboo
China is the world's earliest use of bamboo products, so bamboo carving in China has
a long history.Bamboo carving, also known as bamboo carving, is to carve a variety
of decorative patterns and text on the bamboo ware, or carved with bamboo roots into
a variety of furnishings.Bamboo carving became an art until the tang dynasty.
25, the cane makes up
Rattan weaving is a traditional practical crafts.All sorts of household utensils and
furniture that use mountain cane to braid.Main producing area guangdong, see at the
place such as jiang men, zhongshan, foshan more, history is long.
Rattan weaving this local specialty is not only a very good living appliances, but also
a strange production and even war equipment.There is a record about "rattan jia jun"
in The Three Kingdoms annals. The so-called "rattan jia" is the wardress woven by

15. rattan, "crossing the river is not heavy, neither the sword nor the arrow can enter
through the water is not wet".
26, straw
There are many kinds of straw weaving, rich resources and different designs and
colors, forming the characteristics of different nationalities.There are mainly
traditional grain grass, wheat straw, palm silk and other woven.There are hundreds of
designs and patterns such as straw curtain, straw mat, straw basket, straw fan, straw
mat and straw toy.It is a kind of grass basket only, multicolored, modelling diversity,
let a person dazzling.
27,wicker
The crafts natural willow hand weaves but becomes, the natural environmental
protection.Wicker peeling, smooth surface, fresh color, soft and solid, is the folk
crafts weaving willow bucket, willow basket, willow dustpan and other production,
living supplies materials.
28, blowing sugar man

16. Blowing sugar figurine is a traditional folk craft, which integrates art, food and toys
into one. It is very popular among children, and most of its crafts are passed down
from generation to generation by artists.Usually artists carry on the back of the box,
walking through the streets, while doing business.
Legend "blowing sugar figure" ancestor is liu bowen.Legend of zhu yuanzhang to the
throne can be handed down from generation to generation, on the creation of
"cabinet" fire heroes.Liu bowen got away with it, and was rescued by an old man who
carried a burden of sugar. They exchanged clothes, and from then on, liu bowen went
from street to street carrying a burden and "blowing sugar man".
The "sugar blowing figure" mainly USES caramel brewed by the artist and the
caramel body is brown.The main ingredient of caramel is starch.Art designers have
their own unique formula and stewing method, the whole process is all a matter of
experience to judge, the caramel when heated to a suitable temperature, pulling down
a ball and knead into a ball, with your index finger with a deep pit, and a small
amount of starch pressure outside the tightening, quickly pull out, to a certain
fineness, suddenly broken candy bar, at this point, the candy bar is like a thin tube,
blow with the mouth shape immediately.The whole operation process must go
through hard training, the technique must be accurate, the modelling must be succinct
vivid.
29, clay figurine

17. The tianjin clay figurine zhang caisu art is exquisite, the influence far reaches the
world each place, occupies the important position in our country folk art history.(the
figure in the above "emperors of all dynasties" is a clay figurine zhang caisu)
30, fuwa
The dough figurines are actually mo, small figures made of glutinous rice flour and
colored dough.
It is mainly used in wedding gifts and funeral offerings, as well as birthday gifts, gifts
to relatives and friends, prayers and festivals, etc.
31, embroidery

18. Also known as silk embroidery, is one of China's excellent traditional national
crafts.According to "book of history" the chapter before record is in 4000 takes a
system, stipulate "dress picture and dress embroider";In the book of songs, there is
also a description of "plain clothes with embroidery".
The custom of advocating embroidered clothing in the song dynasty has gradually
become popular among the people, which also promoted the development of Chinese
silk embroidery technology.
Ming embroidery has become a very expressive art, has been known as the "four
famous embroidery" su embroidery, yue embroidery, xiang embroidery, shu
embroidery.The suzhou suzhou suzhou embroidery and the frontier silk are the most
famous.
32, cloth art
Cloth art is the art on cloth, it is a magnificent wonderful work in Chinese folk craft,
the cloth art of ancient China basically has embroider, carry, decal to wait.The ancient
Chinese folk cloth art is mainly used for clothing, shoes and hats, bed curtains, bags,
backpacks and other small decorations (such as headscarves, sachets, fan belts,
purses, handkerchiefs, etc.), toys and so on.

19. Chinese cloth art has been handed down from generation to generation, pouring into
people's endless wisdom, with distinct artistic characteristics.
33, brocade
A fabric in which patterns are woven by jacquard and weaving techniques using dyed
warp and weft threads.Chinese silk jacquard technology has a long history.Silk fabrics
existed in China as early as the Yin and shang dynasties.In the zhou dynasty, brocade
appeared in the silk fabrics, with brilliant patterns and perfect skills.
Han dynasty has a room, brocade department, specializing in weaving brocade, for the
palace to enjoy.
During the zhenguan period of the tang dynasty, dou shilun's shu brocade patterns,
such as pheasant, sheep fighting and phoenix flying, were called the damask Yang
pattern.In the weaving process, the warp and weft threads are changed from warp and
weft threads to weft brocade, and the color warp and weft threads are changed from
shallow to deep or from deep to shallow.
The imperial court of the northern song dynasty established a large-scale weaving
workshop in bianjing and other places to produce various brocade brocade.
34, batik

20. Batik is China's ancient folk traditional textile printing and dyeing crafts, which is
called wax in ancient times. Together with skein (tie-dye) and pinch (hollow-out
printing), it is also known as China's three ancient printing techniques.
Wax dyeing is to dip wax knife into wax painted flowers and then dye them with
indigo. When the wax is removed, the cloth surface will show a variety of patterns of
white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background.
Because the batik pattern is rich, the color is simple but elegant, the style is unique,
USES in the manufacture clothing clothing and each kind of life real goods, appears
simple and natural, fresh and pleasing to the eye, rich national characteristic.
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