The image of Manchu folk paper-cutting
The study of folk paper-cutting can be traced back to the origin of primitive decoration. Fundamentally speaking, the desire for decoration is just like human appetite and sexual desire. It is an instinct of human beings, a special creature created by nature, rather than an accessory or extended product of other cultural phenomena. Manchu paper-cut art is also a branch of decorative art. It has various types and rich expression forms, and image modeling is its main form of decoration.
"Image" is a very important concept and category in Chinese classical aesthetics. As early as "Yi Zhuan" and "Zhuangzi", there were discussions on meaning and image. "Yi Zhuan·Xici" says: "The sage establishes images to express his thoughts." Here, establishing images refers to the expression of perceptual images. The use of images can help express the subjects emotions and thoughts. Zhuangzi said: "Those who catch fish will forget the turtle; those who catch the fish will forget the hooves; those who catch the rabbit will forget the hoof; those who speak will care about it, and they will forget their words if they are satisfied." The so-called "proud to forget words" means that you can understand it in your heart. "Image" is the core concept of traditional Chinese art, which contains the essence of humans spirit of examining the natural world and the way of thinking. The concept of "imagery" in Chinese national culture is completely different from the traditional Western concept of modeling in terms of shape, color, quality and other materialized forms. It shows its own philosophical characteristics, emphasizes the expression of ones own spirit, and incorporates objective objects into the order of subjective ideas. . "Image" is the organic unity of subjectivity and objectivity, that is, the idea of ??"unity of man and nature". "Image" is the use of images to capture images and images to express meanings. This "xiang" means attaching importance to the observation, ingestion, reconstruction and combination of images of the objective world; "meaning" means attaching importance to the creation of autonomous consciousness, thoughts and emotions.
The imagery expressed in Manchu paper-cutting is not a mechanical imitation of all natural phenomena, but a collective creation that focuses on the development and display of ones own consciousness, resulting in the integration of imagery and imagery. The so-called image modeling is a relatively abstract, diversifiedthe concept of. One is because the image itself is an uncertain psychological factor. Second, because aesthetic subjects are multi-level, different aesthetic subjects will produce different aesthetic images due to reasons such as culture, cultivation, way of thinking, and understanding of art. What kind of world view there is will have what kind of methodology. Therefore, under the guidance of different aesthetic images, different artistic shapes will be produced. Aesthetic image is the sense of beauty produced by the human mind corresponding to natural objects. Under the mutual comparison of subjective and objective objects, it strives to express the morphological characteristics of objective objects and the aesthetic artistic conception of subjective psychology. Its image not only contains the morphological characteristics of the objective image, but also contains peoples culture, emotions, personality, thinking and other psychological factors. It is the unity of spirit and reality, subjective and objective, and is an idealized aesthetic shape. The morphological composition of image modeling is different from that of naturalistic concrete modeling. The morphological language composition of image modeling is not a simple imitation and reproduction of natural objects, but relies on the visual thinking of personal subjective consciousness and the self with subjective ideas. Expression and externalization of inner emotional activity. Interest, connotation, meaning and craftsmanship constitute the image vocabulary of this form. This vocabulary seems very abstract, as mysterious as the Taoist expression "the elephant is invisible". However, it still conveys thoughts, emotions, and aesthetic views through visual image elements such as points, lines, and surfaces, so there are rules to follow.
