1.Weifang Kite
As the first batch on the list of national intangible cultural heritage, Weifang is the world kite culture exchange center, known as the "City of kite" in all over the world.
Kite, ancient name is "Yuan", hence ancient Weifang was also called YuanDo, means the capital city of kite, due to its long history of kite production. Bamboo frame, high-grade silk with hand painting. The combination of craft and art reflects the value of kites. With the gradual frequent international kite communication, kites, an ancient folk art, have flourished under the new situation and become an important art. The characteristics of Weifang kites are simply summarized as simulation, what to do like what. Chinese traditional kites are basically divided into the four skills of tying, pasting, painting and flying, also called the four arts of wind kites.
2.Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures
Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures are on the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list and famed with its’ simple, exquisite, colorful and rich content.
3.tie-dye
As an ancient dyeing technology, tie-dye in Shandong area is also called rubbing flowers. There are many kinds of tie-dyeing methods, usually through binding, sewing, clamping and other methods, the fabric is twisted into knots, stitched into flowers or pressed into shape, so that the fabric is twisted, tied, pressed part of the formation of anti-dyeing, resulting in a natural and rich pattern, its unique artistic effect, unique pattern characteristics that are not achieved by today's machine production.
4.pyrography technics of gourd
Gourd pyrography is a national intangible cultural heritage. Artisans use a soldering iron to iron the marks on the gourd due to it can be permanently preserved, thus are collected as a high value artwork. Pyrography creation pay attention to the grasp of heat, strength at the same time. On the base of carbonization principle, Pyrography is a skill to control temperature and brushwork, do not apply any paint, to bake the main, color as a complement of expression techniques, in the material sketching, baking, staining, artfully and naturally the art of painting and pyrography art into a gourd.
5.old cat lantern
As a traditional handicrafts, the lantern is carrying auspicious meanings and good wishes, also have a special significance in Weifang. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Weifang has the custom of "finding the old cat" to commemorate a county magistrate who surname “Mao” that sounds cat. Children carry lanterns made of various materials such as flower baskets, lotus lanterns, and old cat lanterns.
The old cat lantern is made of bamboo, rice paper, iron wire, twine, paper, silk silk, paste, latex pigment, etc. The skeleton is made of bamboo or iron wire, the lamp surface is made of rice paper or silk paste, the knife, scissors, pliers and other tools are used to finish the preliminary production after tying the skeleton and pasting the lamp surface, and then the decoration methods such as painting and cutting are used to make the lantern, which involves a variety of traditional techniques.
6. dough modelling
Dough sculpture, the craft of kneading various flowers, birds, fish, insects, objects, figures, animals and other specific images with hands and various special shaping tools after making mature dough with flour, glutinous rice flour, glycerin or wheat flour.
7.Weifang pottery
Weifang clay pottery in the production process continues the traditional procedures, there are a variety of unique techniques such as sculpture impression, hand-kneading and rolling, pulling blank, the use of plain glaze on the glaze, local glaze, blowing glaze and other methods, in accordance with the form of the content as the principle, eclectic, In the firing process, are used to make the colorful works various via firing methods.
8.facial makeup in Beijing Opera
The painting methods of facial makeup in Beijing Opera are basically divided into three categories: rubbing the face, wiping the face and brushing the face. The initial role of facial makeup is to exaggerate the five facial parts and facial texture of the characters in the drama, and use exaggerated techniques to express the character, psychological and physiological characteristics of the characters in the drama, so as to serve the plot of the whole drama, but later, the facial makeup changed from simple to complex, from coarse to fine, from surface to inside, from shallow to deep. It has gradually become a kind of pattern art with national characteristics, using human face as the means of expression.
The intangible cultural heritage Creative Space includes various of traditional cultural projects. This activity aims to guides primary and secondary school students to actively learn traditional culture via public training. Let them deeply appreciate the charm of intangible cultural heritage, but also love national characteristics and traditional culture. Let them closely understand the intangible cultural heritage, enter the intangible cultural heritage, truly feel the charm of the intangible cultural heritage, so as to love the intangible cultural heritage, spread the intangible cultural heritage, to achieve the purpose of passing down the intangible cultural heritage from generation to generation.
