Marriage, love and reproduction in Chinese folk paper-cutting
my countrys traditional folk paper-cuts refer to those that have been produced for a long time. As a form of folk art, they are widely attached to folk activities and have become an indispensable image carrier in the completion and realization of folk activities. Survival and reproduction, as the most important things in the development of human society, continue to release motivation in the field of folk art and have almost become the leading spiritual inducement of various cultural factors. There are a large number of paper-cut shapes created around the images of marriage, love and life reproduction in traditional folk paper-cutting. They have the most primitive appearance. They have gradually formed their own procedures and norms in the inheritance of folk paper-cutting from generation to generation, establishing a collective nature. The aesthetic characteristics of imagery.
Feuerbach once said that primitive humans often project imaginary "meaning" or "causal relationships" into external reality, "turning natural things into a mood thing, into a "Subjective, that is, human thing" due to the penetration of some mysterious concepts, in the creation of artistic images, this kind of imagination of primitive people can quickly sublimate external natural phenomena into images. The perceived natural object breaks away from its unique natural form and becomes an image form. my countrys traditional paper-cut art, like other categories of folk art, is in the same vein as the original creative art and has a very clear image. These "meaningful" modeling combinations have evolved into fixed routines through the inheritance of folk people from generation to generation, and have become an important carrier of peoples spiritual life. They record the social functions of the era when they were created and the authors creative spirit, and express the aesthetics of an era. Require. (Reference: The culture of reproduction in Yu County paper-cutting)
To this day, many of the styles in the collection of paper-cut patterns that combine traditional images of marriage, love and reproduction, echo the customs and habits left over from history, and still exist among the people. However, with the penetration of modern civilization, the influence of local people on The concept of survival has fundamentally changed, and the cultural soil on which these traditional folk paper-cuts rely for survival has gradually been lost. With the changes of history, the distinctive artistic style, profound cultural heritage and clear direction of witchcraft and blessing in this kind of paper-cutting have gradually abandoned the original connotation in the variation of the old form, and its functional indicators have gradually changed.There have definitely been qualitative changes. For example, the wedding flowers posted in the bridal chamber are still a necessity for newlyweds to decorate their rooms and set off a festive atmosphere. However, almost no one knows that they were originally a talisman to pray for children... As the Those old people who still remember a little bit about it have also passed away one after another, and those stories and connotations that interpreted paper-cutting will become history today. Therefore, todays exploration of traditional folk paper-cut culture not only allows us to trace the evolution of folk paper-cut art in the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, but also reveals how the working people have faced harsh natural conditions in the process of historical development. The emotional temperament and psychological quality displayed in the social environment.
