Multidimensional spatial forms in Chinese folk paper-cutting
Chinese culture is based on natural economy, and the formation of inland agricultural social culture and several traditions are related to this. Rural working people have lived in this cultural tradition for a long time, constantly enriching and developing these traditions through practice, and at the same time being affected and restricted by these cultural traditions. The traditional thinking habits displayed by people are the function and reflection of these cultural traditions. Thinking arises from practice and acts on practice. As a spiritual civilization, folk paper-cutting must be influenced and acted upon by traditional thinking habits. This influence and role not only makes Chinese folk paper-cutting consciously and diligently reflect and act on folk life, folk thoughts, and psychological states, but also plays a major role in the existence of paper-cutting based on folk life.
Farmers' hard-working and active habits are developed in the long-term labor process. From preparing land for farming to harvesting fields in autumn, they care about every aspect of the labor process. Their labor process is closely connected with the growth process of crops (or fish, chickens, sheep, etc. in fish farming). During the labor process, they used their sweat and hard work to spread the growth of crops, and carefully maintained and monitored the growth process. They hope for smooth weather, peace, and prosperity in order to ensure a smooth growing process and a happy ending. Only in this way can their lives be guaranteed. The adaptation and protection of "labor process" to "growth process" has become a conscious behavior of farmers. Their long-term habits have given them a "process complex". They not only pay attention to the objective conditions of "labor process" and "growth process", but also pay attention to the objective conditions of "labor process" and "growth process". I like to express my attention to the two "processes" in my paper-cutting art. This takes the labor process as the main expression clue, and at the same time unifies the two "processes" in the paper-cut art form. They are not satisfied with the artistic expression of every move and single scene. They want to try their best to express the "process" in a paper-cut. "Chicken Raising" shows the process from raising chickens to laying eggs. It not only shows housewives pouring feed, children chasing away chickens, chickens, etc.Eating food, and showing chickens laying eggs. Although the theme is to show how people get rich through labor, it mainly shows the process of "chickens growing and laying eggs", supplemented by the "labor process" of people. This form of expression highlights the happy ending of the "growth process", shows the rewards of the "labor process", and expresses the content of the theme well. "Raising Animals" expresses the labor process, from haying to the trough (the animal is called the trough when it goes to the trough). Every step in the filling, cleaning, and raising process is demonstrated one by one. The "labor process" represented in the authors other painting "The Breeder" has richer process content. The author said: "The breeders work day and night. On one side, the breeder who has just taken over is feeding the animals. On the right, his baby is coming back from outside to carry water, and on the left, another breeder is working in the yard. He was raking hay, and his baby was preparing hay for him next to him. On the right is the night shift breeder after get off work, taking a cigarette break." This obviously represents a labor process of collective livestock raising.
Womens sensitive psychology makes them notice the different changes in peoples own movements. This change becomes the expression material of "process" and the expression material of "change". They use the method of "clone technique" to express the different forms in the process of human activities, and combine the different characteristics in the "process" into one expression. This method is also used to express the process of animal activities. When a tiger in nature is looking for food, it must look forward and constantly turn its head and look sideways. In the art form of paper-cutting, they grasped the two typical forms of "looking forward" and "looking sideways" to express the process of twisting the head back and forth to watch. The tigers head looks forward with its big mouth open, showing "fierceness". Looking back and sideways, its eyes are bright and powerful. The tigers mighty momentum is fully demonstrated in the "twisting process" of the tigers head. The paper-cuts of ethnic minorities also have the same formal representation of dragons. In their paintings of farmers, they painted the image of a shepherd boy turning his head back and forth, looking after the horses on all sides, with three sides at one end. By showing the process of the shepherd boy taking care of the horses with his head constantly twisting, the image of a lively and serious shepherd boy emerges.
There is also a folk method similar to the "clone technique", in which the process of twisting the head back and forth is represented as multiple avatars on the twisting trajectory. This form is very similar to the art of photography that follows the continuous exposure during shooting. Nowadays, some sports projects This freeze-frame method is used to decompose athletes' postures during sports and study sports techniques to improve performance. There are also people who have absorbed this achievement and used meticulous paintings to express the crowds marching on the street, and even won awards in national art exhibitions.When I was collecting folk songs in Jinnan, Shanxi Province, I once saw a folk artist cut the tigers tail into two parts in order to show the majesty of the tiger. The two tails were at the two extreme positions of the swinging trajectory. . In the painting, a twisting and grazing horse is represented as having two heads. This form of expression is also found in folk clay sculptures. When I was collecting folk art in Junxian County, Henan, I saw a two-headed chicken among the small clay sculptures of Wang Lantian, a veteran "Nigugu" artist. I asked him why he had two heads, and he said that chickens always turn their heads left and right when looking at things, and they also move up and down when eating. Only by pinching two heads can they show this kind of look. The reason he said is to express chicken heads. The reason for the twisting process. Folks regard "eyes for six directions and ears for hearing in all directions" as the characteristics of capable and intelligent people. We must "see six directions for eyes and ears for all directions"
