China has as wide variety of arts and crafts with exquisite workmanship.
They can be classified into special folk types. Special arts and crafts, such as ivory carving, jade carving and Shousan stone carving use precious or special materials, and undergo elaborate designing and processing. They are elegant and expensive. In technique, Chinese folk arts fall into the categories of cutting, bundling, plaiting, knitting, embroidering, carving, molding and painting. Cutting includes paper cuts, paper engravings, paper cut silhouettes, paper folding, paper sculpture, and leather-silhouettes, all of which evolved from paper cuts.