Foshan paper-cutting is willing to give priority to scissors and then carve with a knife. Mostly used in festivals and daily activities, such as window grilles, embroidery and carving patterns, trademarks, gifts and decorations.
There are many kinds of paper-cut in Foshan, including copper lining, paper lining, copper writing, copper chisel, paper writing, silver writing, woodcut overprint, dyeing engraving, solid color and so on. Use local specialty colored paper, copper foil, etc. Techniques such as cutting, engraving and chiseling make Foshan paper-cut diverse and decorative. It has the characteristics of rigorous composition, slender lines, elegant and smooth, strong colors, resplendence, jewels and brilliance.
Foshan paper-cutting is unique in Chinese paper-cutting art, and its works have been selected into national art exhibitions and national arts and crafts exhibitions for many times, and won many awards, and are often sent to foreign exhibitions. A Dream of Red Mansions is a giant paper-cut mural and one of the famous murals in China. Foshan paper-cut works, as artistic decorations, souvenirs and gifts, are deeply loved by people from all walks of life at home and abroad. Lanterns are called lanterns by Foshan people. Foshan Lantern Festival is one of the main schools of traditional lantern festival art in China, featuring exquisite southern lanterns. Historical records of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been recorded in detail for a long time.
The color binding of Foshan lamps is mainly made by hand with bamboo strips, iron wires and other materials, and then bonded with various silks, laces, colored nails, etc., with splendid paper-cut patterns unique to Foshan, or painted with poems and paintings on silk.
Foshan lamp color is the main decoration of festivals and various celebrations, from the initial indoor art to the square art, from a single work to a scale combination. There are colorful dragons ranging from tens of meters to thousands of meters, pavilions of various specifications, large groups of lights of various folk stories and lights of various figures, animals, flowers, birds, insects, fish, melons and fruits. It has the characteristics of traditional craft, novel shape, fine and exquisite, bright and colorful during the day, transparent and bright at night, and resplendent.
The colorful dragon, colorful dragon, longteng, traditional lantern and other lantern-tied handicrafts designed and produced by Foshan Folk Art Research Association have successively won four world records.
The artistic influence of Foshan lights is spread all over the world, and Foshan is known as the "hometown of colorful dragons". The lanterns, floats and floats of Foshan Folk Art Research Institute are dazzling, and the colors of Foshan lanterns have been selected as national philatelic products twice. The autumn colors in Foshan originated in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the autumn harvest, in order to repay the gods and the good years brought by nature, people gradually formed the famous Foshan Autumn Fair, called "Autumn Show". Foshan autumn crafts are also named after this. Foshan autumn scenery is a large-scale folk entertainment activity with the most local characteristics in Lingnan area.
The autumn colors in Foshan are divided into two categories: autumn craft competition exhibition and autumn performing arts. The projects are colorful and varied. From the form of expression, it can be divided into seven colors: light color, car color, horse color, floating color, ground color, water color and scenery. Production techniques and performance forms include binding, architecture, mounting, sculpture, music, dance, drama, acrobatics and makeup performances. It is a mass comprehensive art that integrates mass creation, competitive competition and performance. Autumn handicrafts mainly include binding handicrafts, antique handicrafts, flower handicrafts, fruit handicrafts and scale handicrafts.
The greatest artistic feature of Foshan's autumn colors is that the fake is genuine and the local flavor is strong.
Foshan is the hometown of autumn art, and Foshan Folk Art Research Association has participated in "Autumn Exhibition" and "Autumn Parade" for many times, and its amazing and ingenious art has amazed the audience. Foshan Woodblock New Year Pictures was founded in Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Foshan woodblock New Year pictures reached their peak, and Foshan in Guangdong, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Weifang in Shandong gradually formed the "Four Woodblock New Year Pictures".
There are three kinds of woodblock New Year pictures in Foshan: original books, woodcuts and meticulous paintings, including door gods, New Year pictures and statues. Door gods are the mainstay, with a wide range of subjects, which show people's hopes and ideals.
Foshan woodblock New Year pictures absorbed the essence of traditional crafts such as Foshan paper-cutting, golden flower copper chisel and gold lacquer wood carving, and were overprinted with four kinds of wood carvings: red, green, yellow and black. Use meticulous painting, gold powder and other techniques to make the picture more magnificent and shining; Also painted with red lead, red is warm and gorgeous, which means good luck. The New Year pictures painted by Dantu can prevent rust and acid, and will not fade in the sun and rain. Therefore, it has the reputation of "Wan Nianhong". Shiwan is known as "Southern Taodou" and belongs to Foshan City. Shiwan art ceramics is commonly known as "Shiwan doll", and the ceramic sculpture art of "Shiwan doll" is known as the "Pearl of Oriental Art", which has an irreplaceable position in the history of ceramic art in China. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shiwan pottery was exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world and became one of the famous ceramic bases in southern China. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was famous as "Shiwanwa was the best in the world".
The physical forms of "Shiwan Doll" pottery can be divided into five categories: figure pottery, animal pottery, utensils, microplastics and tile-ridge pottery. Shiwan doll, represented by figure modeling, has both form and spirit, is highly realistic and moderately exaggerated, which makes it full of life interest, good at absorbing the essence of various cultures and arts, and forms a distinctive local style.
Therefore, Guo Moruo, a famous poet, once described the ceramic art of Shiwan with such a poem: "Exquisite craftsmanship, Shiwan should be Mei Tao Bay".