The more direct reason for the decline of traditional handicrafts in modern times is the separation from the lifestyle of industrialized societies. From the 1950s to the 1970s, although the Chinese people's lives were simple, they actually had a serious "Westernization" tendency.
Such as monotonous Western-style clothing, simple Western-style housing, non-speed-changing bicycles, steam locomotives, etc. In addition to exchanging foreign exchange for traditional handicrafts, it is far from the people's lives.
Since the mid-1980s, Chinese people’s lives have shifted from “satisfied” to “well-off” and “wealthy”. The trend of westernization has accelerated, the improvement of the living environment, the popularization of household appliances, the extension of highways, the increase of private cars, The rapid development of the information industry has caused fundamental changes in people's values, aesthetics, and space-time concepts. The needs for clothing, food, housing, and transportation mainly depend on industrialized products, which are cheap and good. Although the prices of handicrafts have risen, they are "overwhelming."
There is a female entrepreneur who invested heavily in establishing the Red Sandalwood Museum. How many others can do this? It can be seen that the modern lifestyle and cultural atmosphere will inevitably cause a contraction in the material level of traditional culture, and it is difficult for any nation to get rid of this law.