What are the national arts of China?

There are many national arts in China, a brief introduction is as follows:

1. Opera

Drama is a traditional Chinese drama form. It is a combination of various factors including literature, music, dance, art, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. Its origins have a long history. Songs and dances have sprouted as early as in primitive society. In the long process of development, after more than 800 years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development, a relatively complete opera art system has gradually been formed.

There are about 360 kinds of operas in various ethnic regions in my country, and tens of thousands of traditional plays. The five major types of Chinese opera are Peking Opera, Henan Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, and Ping Opera. Other popular opera types: Kun Opera, Hunan Opera, Cantonese Opera, Qin Opera, Sichuan Opera, Ping Opera, Henan Opera, Jin Opera, Han Opera, Chao Opera, Fujian Opera, Qi Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Anqing Huangmei Opera, Hunan Huagu Opera... and more than fifty types of opera.

2. Calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is a unique art category. It is not only a symbol to express ideas, but also a form of expression.

Chinese calligraphy uses brushes, rice paper, ink and stone inkstones as tools. The writer uses a brush, dips in a moderate amount of ink ground in an inkstone, and writes on rice paper.

Chinese calligraphy originated from Chinese characters, and pictography is the most basic and important feature of Chinese characters. Like painting, it is based on objective objects. Therefore, Chinese calligraphy has a kind of similarity with traditional Chinese painting. A blood connection.

3. Music

Traditional music is an extremely important part of my country’s national music. The difference between traditional music and new music does not lie in the order of creation, but in the Its expression form and style characteristics. For example, the erhu solos "The Moon Reflects on Two Springs" and "Fishing Boats Sing Evening" are modern music works, but their performance forms are unique to the Chinese nation, so they are also traditional music.

Chinese traditional music is classified as follows: folk music, literati music, religious music, and court music; folk music includes folk songs, folk instrumental music, folk songs and dances, opera music, and rap music;

Literati music includes guqin music, poetry recitation tunes, and literati self-tuned music; religious music includes Buddhist music, Taoist music, Christian music, Islamic music, shamanism and other religious music; palace music includes sacrificial music, court music, Guide, welcome, patrol and have fun.

4. Painting

The history of Chinese painting can be traced back to the painted pottery patterns and rock paintings of the Neolithic Age in primitive society. Although the primitive painting skills are naive, they have mastered preliminary modeling abilities. , it can also capture the main characteristics of animals, plants and other dynamic and static forms, and use it to express the beliefs and wishes of the ancestors and to beautify and decorate life.

5. Clothing

Traditional clothing has two basic forms, namely the top and lower skirt system and the clothing and skirt system. It is said that the system of upper and lower garments originated in the legendary Huangdi era. "Yi Xici Xia" records: "The Yellow Emperor, Yao and Shun hung down their clothes and ruled the world, taking over the world." This legend can be found in the painted pottery unearthed in Gansu. It is confirmed in the cultural pottery paintings. This can be said to be the earliest basic form of clothing system in our country.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Traditional Art