民间美术是与大众生活息息相关的民俗艺术,是具有时代特点的活态文化。传统的民间美术是在长远的历史进程中,广大劳动者发自内心的审美感情和技艺能力的自然流露,是身处中下层的劳动人民为了满足自己的物质和审美需求而创作的物质文化和非物质文化遗产。民间美术课程在高校的设置,具有传承和弘扬中华民族优秀传统文化艺术的作用,是在多元文化背景下对民族文化和民族传统的尊重。 Folk art is a folk art closely related to popular life, and it is a living culture with the characteristics of the times. Traditional folk art is the natural expression of the aesthetic feelings and skills of the vast majority of workers in the long-term historical process. It is the material culture created by working people in the middle and lower classes in order to meet their own material and aesthetic needs. Intangible Cultural Heritage. The setting up of folk art courses in colleges and universities has the function of inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and art and respects the national culture and national traditions in a multi-cultural context.