Suzhou University started from 20 18, which lasted about three years, and initially established a place to display regional culture, called folk art museum.

Folk art refers to mastering established traditional styles and skills, and also refers to works of art, handicrafts and decorative decorations made by ordinary people. A country or region may produce a typical folk art.

Folk art is put forward according to the concepts of academic art and literati art. In a broad sense, folk art is an art created by workers to meet their own life and aesthetic needs, including folk arts and crafts, folk music, folk dance and opera. Folk art in a narrow sense refers to folk plastic arts, including various forms of expression of folk art and arts and crafts.

According to the classification of materials, folk handicrafts are made of different materials, such as paper, cloth, bamboo, wood, stone, leather, metal, noodles, mud, ceramics, grass willow, rattan, paint and so on. They are mainly made of natural materials, local materials and traditional handwork, with strong local characteristics and national style, closely combined with folk activities and life. Folk art is accompanied by life etiquette from birth to death, food, clothing, housing and transportation in daily life all year round.

According to different production techniques, folk art can be divided into painting, modeling, weaving, cutting, printing and dyeing.