Chinese handicraft

About G&L

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Hong kong G&L industrial and trade Co.,Ltd.Mainly operates from Hong kong and Beijing. Being is a trading company exporting Chinese folk handicraft.G&L' supplier is folk artistes mainly in Shaan'Xi province（so,we have price advantage）,we also choose some craft enterprises who enjoy a good reputation and special in handicraft producing.G&L promise provide a first class service supplying competitively priced, good quality, well packaged product with timely delivery.

For every kind of craftwork,our products ae affluent in shape,colour,size etc.We can't dispaly all of them because the blog has no enough space,so please let me know if you have further request.

About Genaral Manager: Miss Olive Wei, was born in Shaan'xi-original of China traditional folk handicraft.Loving chinese traditional culture and try her best to spread it to overseas country.

Mobile:0086-15801629238
MSN/E-Mail:oliveweiwei@hotmail.com
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Note:Please send inquiry to MSN mail with your order QTY,discharge port and other requests.

Folk Shadow Play

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Folk Shadow Play
Speaking behind paper partition screen,
Expressing variable felings by shadows,
One shadow paly actor can tell thousand years story,
Boths hands can operate millions of soldiers,
——Shaan'xi balladry

Shaan’xi province is the ceadle if Chinese Shadow Play.Fengxiang Shadow paly belongs to west route of Shaan’xi style.The shadow leather figure is beautiful with its shape, exquisite with its carvings, and creates a new style in Chinese folk art. The Shadow Play is performed through light, screen, music, singing, and leather figures operating. It has a set of carving skill and its acting technique has special handiness.

Folk Embroidery

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"Little girl, do sit down,
mom will waeve and sew a doll for you,
And then when you visit your aunts.
They all will cry up the tiger child and your tiger hat."
——Shaan'xi balladry
The folk embroidery of Shaan'xi has a long history.As early as Zhou Dynasty,people in Shaan;xi wove silk,sewed clothes and embroidered,which was recorded vividly in the Book of Songs(a collection of ancient Chinese poetry).In addition to the practical value,the folk embroideries are the representative of Chinese folk culture,showing its special value on traditional important occasions.

Paper Art

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"Look up when you get into the front door,
all the windows are decorated with paper-cuts.
Big scissors clipping whiles small ones gouging out,
Which girl can be skillful?"
——Shaan'xi balladry
Paper-cut, one of the traditional Chinese folk arts, possesses a long historical origin and a profound cultural meaning. On Spring Festival and weddings, every household will cut papers for window and bed decoration. The content of paper-cut can be folklores, birds and beasts, flowers, grass, fishes and so on. The colorful folk life and the desire for happiness are well demonstrated in each work.

Farmers' Paiting

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The drawing style of Shaan'xi peasant paintings is boorish and unconstrainted,its composition is innocent and straight forward,and its filling of colors on a sketch is surprisingly magnificent and quaint,also as it is spring to life,its full of fresh living breath.

Straw Waving Technique

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Donghu Willow
Xifeng wine and women’s hands
——Shaan’xi balladry
Straw waving technique is a kind of bywork handed down from generation to generation in Shaan’xi province. Taking advantage of their free time, countrywomen weave the wheat stalks, corn husks and so on into braids which will become all kinds of commodities and craftworks after the process of braising, fuming and dyeing.

Wooden Scoop and Cask

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The manufacture craft of wooden painted face is complicated, a small wooden painted face needs a series of multifarious working procedure, which is including choosing materials, making flan , burnishing , lacquering and drawing , every step is excelsior , needing patience and circumspective .The artists select high-quality wood of paulownia, phoenix and mahogany tree as material, carve out a shape of scoop or other living utensils (Cask,rice measuring tool,bowl, shuttle,dustpan,and so on) manually by knife. It should spend much time and energy.

The Wooden Painted Face can be trace back to Shang Dynasty, it is a original method for the ancients to drive off ghosts and monsters. Most of the pattern of painted face are from folk fames, which own supernatural power and justice, imply assuage residence, exorcise, drive away lonely, display blessings and auspicious wish. Now, its a excellent esthetics and decoration for home, and it's really an extremely precious artistic handicraft collection.

Colored clay sculpture

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It is a piece of clay in fact,
but it could be made all kind of creatures
by skilful hands.
Then were read by numerous visions,
long time protected by a mysterious nets that named custom,
and then read by numerous sights that
became the art.
——“Feng Xiang Colored Drawing”
The Fengxiang (in Shaan’xi province) colored clay sculpture began in the earlierWest Zhou dynasty. The traditional clay sculpture was mostly shaped into tiger wall map, sitting tiger, standing person. It was made of paste clay that need ten working procedure and have a good commend with its full-bodied rural air, bright color, merry and lively contour line and romantic lines decoration.

Living State of Shaan’xi Folk Artist

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Shaan'xi province is an underdeveloped areas because of the nature condition and locality. Shaanxinese earn their life mostly through working on the farm. As a bad traditional habitude, women accept education is useless. Women always stay at home to do housework and some handicraft while their husband working on the farm.Until now, many Shaanxinese still suffer destitutions, families can’t afford schooling, teenage girl unable to go to school.
G&L buy large of handicrafts from countrywomen in Shaan'xi or other province as a higher price. We hope this will help poor families to live a better life.