From the 1950s to the 1960s, traditional handicrafts experienced a rare period of revival. Under the direct guidance of government departments at all levels, collective ownership has replaced scattered individual workshops, training successors in two ways: the establishment of arts and crafts colleges and the inheritance of fathers.
During the process of economic system transformation to market system under the economic leverage of planned foreign trade, many factories were difficult to maintain or even closed down.
Individual workshops are gradually emerging. Handicraft production is mainly manual. Product design and production can be completed one by one, which is completely different from industrial mass production.
The clustered pipeline operations and graded salary system flooded the enthusiasm of individual creation in the "big pot", which is bound to be in trouble in the new economic system. The result is that a large number of practical products are mass-produced by industrialization, such as daily-use ceramics and furniture; a small number of special crafts are carved by the workshop, such as jewelry, gold and silver jewelry, etc., polarization has occurred.