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As an important part of Chinese folk culture, the value of Chinese folk art is not limited to aesthetics. Through the appreciation of folk art (Compulsory), manual practice (Compulsory) and field collecting (elective), students can understand the richness of folk culture and touch on the relevant knowledge of aesthetics, folklore, archaeology, human culture and so on.
Focusing on the core of Chinese traditional culture, Chinese folk art selects six of the most representative topics to introduce respectively, namely paper cutting, dyeing, wood engraving, embroidery, shadow puppet, pottery, clay sculpture and mask. These six topics are carefully structured to outline Chinese folk traditional culture.
Chinese folk art is a visual image art created by Chinese people to meet their own needs. Its forms of expression include paper cutting, embroidery, shadow puppets, puppets, masks, kites, dough sculptures, clay sculptures, stone carvings, ceramics, jade, silverware, clothing, murals, painting, etc. Its creators are mainly composed of ordinary workers in rural areas, many of whom are rural working women. It is integrated into the social life forms of ethnic groups, such as production and life, clothing, food, housing and transportation, life etiquette and belief taboos. Its cultural connotation and artistic form contain the accumulation of seven or eight thousand years of history and culture of the Chinese nation from the primitive society to today. From the primitive cultural relics of nature worship, totem worship and ancestor worship to the modern commodity economy and culture, it can be called the living fossil and Museum of national history and culture.
