The status of ethnic minority folk paper-cutting
Ethnic minority folk paper-cutting emerged and developed along with the long history of the Chinese nation. It is a treasure house of wisdom with rich connotations and accumulated deep psychological information of the Chinese nation. In the context of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, it is a concentrated expression of It embodies the simple desire of the broad masses of people to uphold etiquette and reproduce, and embodies the spiritual needs of the broad masses of the people to pray for good fortune and wealth, to ward off disasters and evil spirits, and to have many children and good fortune. Most ethnic minorities do not have their own written language, and information about national culture is transmitted through oral literature and conventional visual symbols.
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From a regional perspective, most of the ethnic groups in all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country have paper-cutting art. It is an art rich in ethnic characteristics and widely popular among the folk arts of ethnic minorities in China. It reflects the life and life of ethnic minorities. Thoughts, emotions and ideals are art forms rooted in the lives of the masses. As an integral part of Chinese folk paper-cutting, folk paper-cutting of various ethnic groups is not only the carrier of folk culture of various ethnic groups, but also the product of their folk life art. At the same time, it is also a growing folk "living" culture. On the one hand, they still survive tenaciously in modern society, showing unique vitality; on the other hand, due to the rapid economic development, migrant workers continue to flock to cities, the countryside gradually urbanizes, and the impact of modern lifestyles, etc., ancient folk customs Being far away from people’s daily lives. Even ethnic minorities living in remote villages are being affected as never before. The pastoral picture of men farming and women weaving no longer exists. Rural girls no longer use embroidery and cutting flowers to show their ingenuity and improve their social status. The "flower-cutting man" who once traveled through villages and alleys with his unique skills has also become a landscape that is about to disappear. A large number of "living fossils" of paper-cutting that record and inherit the culture of various ethnic groups are gradually disappearing as old artists who are good at folk unique skills pass away one after another. Most of their descendants no longer inherit the ancestral business, and many distinctive folk paper-cuttings are in the process of being lost. Endangered status of people.
In the past, some scholars who studied folk narratives in folklore collected and studied oral texts of folk narratives, but did not pay enough attention to the graphic texts embedded in folk art. This part of graphic dataPrecisely because of the vivid images and intuitive performance, the information content is greater. Sometimes, paper-cut stories inherited from the folk image system are closer to the original state of the story.
