The creator of Chinese folk art is the working class community. Over several housand years, Chinese society was based on natural economy of farming, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting. The labor division in the society placed men in the field and construction work, leaving women in charge of house work and custom cultural and art activities. The rural female workers formed file majority of this art community. Using the most basic tools like a pair of scissors and a needle, they created a variety of art works going from one generation to the next, greatly contributing to the heritage of original Chinese culture. Special credit is given to those elderly women, the illiterate grandmothers who take care of
every-day household works in China's rural areas. They are the owners, creators and carriers of original Chinese culture. Issues that had been disputed for years in the literature and art circles were unraveled by them in a few words. In northern Shaanxi, many of those grandmothers were born inside the cave, lived and raised their families there, and then passed away peacefully in the cave. For a life time, they decorated their cave with a full range of art works of their own, expressing their understandings and their emotions. Their cave is like a miniature world of the universe, filled with people laughing, horse roaring, birds soaring and fish jumping. It is a living museum of the original ecological culture.
