The Review of the Activities from July to June: the Intangible Cultural Art Class in Xuzhou Museum

       “Trace out the Ancient Pengchengthe: Intangible Cultural Art Class in Xuzhou Museum”is a serial art class which is organized by Xuzhou Museum and Xuzhou Dama Arts, with the theme of Intangible Culture. In every session, we introduce an intangible cultural heritage of Xuzhou and teach children to imitating or making.

        From June to July, Xuzhou Museum provides children the opportunity to contact the local intangible culture with the combination of the International Museum Day and Chinese Cultural Heritage Day, Xuzhou Paper-cut and the landscape of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou Tiger-head s Shoes and Children’s daily life. At the same time, it improves the ability of imagination and handcraft of children.

       The theme of intangible art class is “paper-cut of the landscape of Xuzhou City” in May 28th. Xuzhou Paper-cut was embodied as the first group of national intangible cultural heritages in 2008 while the theme of International Museum Day is the Museum and Landscape of the City. Therefore, the aim of this activity is to “cut” the landscape of Xuzhou by the children.

       The theme of intangible art class is “Xuzhou Tiger-head Shoes” in June 18th. Xuzhou Tiger-head Shoes are a kind of traditional children’s shoes. Due to the head of shoe is like a tiger’s head, we called them tiger-head shoes. They are not only pretty, but also very practical. In addition, they can protect against evil spirits as a kind of mascot.

       The workmanship of Tiger-head shoes is very complex. Red and yellow are the main colors of the surface of the shoes. The mouth, eyebrow, nose and eyes are depicted by some thick lines to show a wild face of the tiger.

       It’s time to show your work!