民间美术作为一种俗艺术,在历史上它相对于雅文化——宫廷与文人的艺术而言,在现在,则相对于专业工作者而言。作为与民生、民态、民情最密切的艺术种类之一,民间美术与原始社会的美术是一脉承传的,它们在发生、发展和艺术的范围、特点、规律等方面,都具有某种意义上的类似。 Folk art, as a vulgar art, has historically been in contrast with Ya culture - the art of court and literati, nowadays, compared with professional workers. As one of the art types most closely related to people’s livelihood, the people’s livelihood and the people’s sentiment, the art of folk art and primitive society is inherited from one source. They all have some sort of occurrence, development, and scope, characteristics and laws of art. Similar in meaning.