Folklore and folk art are important manifestations of folk culture, and "folk culture" is a big category. Generally speaking, it includes the material culture and spiritual culture created by the people, and it is the sum and overall expression of the material culture and spiritual culture created by the people. The concept of "folk culture" refers to the culture belonging to the lower class or the culture of the nation based on the class society. It forms its own system in the whole national life and has a far-reaching influence on the upper culture in many ways. Nowadays, as an independent subject, the development of modern folklore makes

Its academic significance is not only objective, but also methodological. The mistake in the past was that folklore was just the culture of ordinary people, but now the general view is that folklore studies people's daily life culture, and folk culture permeates people's lives and various cultural activities. At present, the literary and art circles have realized this. Whether in literary works or film works, folk culture has become an important theme of its performance. On the other hand, folk art is created under people's inherent material and cultural living conditions. It is not only an aesthetic, but also

It is the embodiment of folk culture and the symbol of folk culture psychology and cultural view. If we study folk art, extract it from the whole folk culture and study it from a single angle, our vision will inevitably become narrow. Only by putting folk art in the category of folk culture for overall research can we enter a deeper level, expand new fields and fully show its significance and value. It is worth noting that since 1980s, folk art has become an important mode of artistic innovation.

In fact, folk art runs through the whole folk custom. Folk custom develops folk art continuously, and folk art enriches the content of folk etiquette. The two promote each other and develop together. Various folk rituals and taboos that have been handed down for thousands of years, as well as weddings, funerals and birthdays, are inseparable from colorful folk art activities. Folk art is characterized by warm colors, exaggerated shapes, lively artistic forms, unpretentious and bold expressions, and a wide range of subjects, such as paper-cutting, shadow play, embroidery, dyeing and weaving, New Year pictures, murals, ceramics, sculptures, etc., which are closely related to folk life and folk customs.