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Chinese Folk Art - The Concept
Folk Art is a part of a country's cultural heritage. It is a creative form, regional communities or ethnic groups inherit within a country. It is very different from Fine arts because the Folk Artists are not academically trained. They acquire their skills as a legacy and develop it under the guidance of their ancestors. Folk Art mirrors the history, living, and rituals of the province or religion of its origin. Chinese Folk Art is one of the oldest and the most extensive art forms in the world. Ardent admirers of the awe-inspiring Chinese Folk Art can be found globally. Chinese Folk Artists rely on intuition, experience, and practices for inspiration to create their art forms. Most forms of Chinese Folk Arts are crude, handmade works, but display aesthetic value.
The Types
- Paper Art - It developed in China in 100 B.C. Red is the commonest color used, as the Chinese consider it auspicious. The art form has the following types:
- - Paper Cutting - Beautiful, intricate, and elegant designs are impeccably cut out of colorful rice paper using knives or scissors. These paper cuts were used to decorate windows, mirrors, columns, walls, lamps, and doors. They were also used as stencils for embroidery and lacquer purposes.
- - Paper Folding - It is called Zhezhi in Chinese. This art dates back to the 6th century and is known to be the predecessor of Origami. Chinese Paper Folding involves single or multiple papers being folded in a special way to form amazing shapes like boats or pagodas.
Some other forms of Chinese folk arts that developed in the latter centuries are, woodblock prints, embroidery, and Chinese furniture.
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Chinese Traditional Folk Art-Shadow Puppet
Shadow puppet, as one of the Chinese traditional folk art, is a handicraft artwork created by processing cattle hide, donkey hide, or sheepskin into a translucent pelt, then painting it with colors before it is baked dry inside a brick oven, and use for shadow play, an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images.
The shadow puppet has a long history in China. It estimated that the first born in the shadow of the Western Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, also known as sheep drama, commonly known as the head drama, shadow play. Shadow theatre became quite popular as early as the Song Dynasty when holidays were marked by the presentation of many shadow plays. During the Ming Dynasty there were 40 to 50 shadow show troupes in the city of Beijing alone. In the 13th century, the shadow show became a regular recreation in the barracks of the Mongolian troops. It was spread by the conquering Mongols to distant countries like Persia, Arabia, and Turkey. Later, it was introduced to other Southeastern Asian countries.
Shadow play needs a high technology, and requests the artists who should have the flexible fingers. It is not only a need a skillful hand, but need the artists to speak, play, sing. The screen for playing shadow is made of white gauze. The shadow puppet should close to the screen when performance is going. It always makes the audience dazzle.
It is said that the shadow began to spread to Europe from the middle of the eighteenth century, and in 1767, the French missionaries took the China’s shadow back to France, and performed in Paris, Marseille.
The shadow play divided into many styles, such as Tangshang shadow play, Jinan shadow play, Xiaoyi shadow play, Fuzhou shadow play, Hanning shadow play, Jianghan shadow play, Lufeng shadow play, Huaxian shadow play and so on. Each kind of shadow play has its own feature, so if you like the shadow play, you should know more and choose the play which you like.
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What's the name of this Chinese/Hip Hop song?
Okay, there's this song and I keep hearing it EVERYWHERE. I would really like to know the name and artist and the song. It has a trip-hop sort of sound, but at the same time there's an Ehru (chinese instrument) playing. It was in the special features on the Mulan 2 DVD, the episode of America's Next Top Model when they went to China, and tons of other shows and movies. It's like, Hip-Hop/ Traditional Chinese music.
I'm pretty sure the song has no lyircs. PLEASE HELP, it's driving me crazy!
"Lesson Number One" – Lea Salonga and Chorus
"Main Title" (Score)
"Like Other Girls" – Judy Kuhn, Beth Blankenship, and Mandy Gonzalez
"A Girl Worth Fighting For (Redux)" – Gedde Watanabe, Jerry Tondo, and Harvey Fierstein
"Here Beside Me" – Hayley Westenra
"(I Wanna Be) Like Other Girls" – Atomic Kitten
"The Journey Begins" (Score)
"In Love and in Trouble" (Score)
"The Attack" (Score)
"Shang Lives!" (Score)
"Here Beside Me (Instrumental)"
thats the full soundtrack list. check on youtube every song to find your song.
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