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The application of image modeling method in Chinese folk paper-cutting

The application of image modeling method in Chinese folk paper-cutting The application of image modeling method in Chinese folk paper-cutting

In primitive societies, people often use human beings as analogies to understand and understand objective and natural things. For example, they believe that people have joy, anger, sorrow, and heaven also have joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. They even think that all objective and natural things are Have the same thoughts and feelings as humans. The development of this ideological concept, on the one hand, led people to worship objective natural things in various ways, paving the way for the emergence of religion, and on the other hand, it caused people to form a concrete analogy thinking method. The characteristic of this method of thinking is that when one intuitively understands a thing or emotion, he or she uses various specific things to compare or symbolize it, especially typical things that are popular among the people to strengthen the power of the thing or the expression of the emotion. Some people call this method circular thinking, which places a theme in the middle and then uses multiple specific metaphors to explain it and strengthen its power. For example: "Good" is an abstract concept. Working people use concrete things to make analogies based on their own understanding to visualize and concretize it. In the early days of liberation, farmers' understanding of a "good" life was "two acres of land, one cow, and a wife and children on the hot bed." In the early 1960s, the "good" socialist life was believed to be: "upstairs and downstairs, lights and telephones." In the early days of reform and opening up, the "good" life was: "household with ten thousand yuan", and "household with ten thousand yuan" has also become a symbol of "ability" and "talent". In modern families, the four major items that people use to compare their living standards range from the initial sewing machines, bicycles, watches, and radios to air conditioners, computers, cars, and suites. Working people in rural areas are mostly exposed to and understand things related to agricultural civilization, so the objects they use for analogies in their analogical thinking are also mostly related to agricultural civilization. "Sheep belly handkerchief, white sugar, Wang Guigui fell in love with Li Xiangxiang", this is a poem written by the poet Li Ji using folk analogy language, which is very impressive.


The application of image modeling method in Chinese folk paper-cutting


Thinking about concrete analogiesThe method is widely used in the creative thinking of Chinese folk paper-cutting. The art form of paper-cutting can be divided into units and multiples. The unit is to use an object to make an analogy. For example, there is a folk saying that "a girl is a flower". Gao Fenglian directly decorated the girls face with flowers in her paper-cutting. Flowers are beautiful and are often used as analogous objects in paper-cutting. Whenever they think the content of the expression is beautiful and beautiful, they will cut one or more flowers for analogy. If the house is beautifully built, a flower should be cut on the house; if the clothes are beautiful, a flower should be cut on the clothes; if the furniture and utensils are beautiful, flowers should be cut on them; if the livestock and animals are beautiful, flowers should be cut on them (excluding those with special meanings and regulations). flower). For example, "peach" and "pine" are often used for "longevity", "mandarin duck" is used for "love and marriage", etc. These are all unit analogies. Multiple analogy is an analogy using multiple objects. Wang Lanpans "Peasant Painting" from Luochuan, northern Shaanxi, because she first used paper-cut shapes, this painting can be viewed as paper-cut. In addition to various people and things related to apples, this work also uses the method of "following the shape" to add dragons, phoenixes, lions, monkeys, etc. These seemingly unrelated things are not for pure decoration and atmosphere. . This is the author using these specific objects to compare peoples lively mental outlook and healthy life of dragons and phoenixes. Without monkeys, birds, cats, rabbits and other objects used for analogy in daily life, peoples mental outlook and colorful life interest will be greatly reduced, and the individual style of the works will not be as brilliant as it is now. In addition to the method of analogy based on the content of things, there is also the method of analogy based on the form of things. This method uses some similar morphological characteristics between an object and the object being compared to express it. The method of using the names of two things to express similarity is even more common in the art form of Chinese folk paper-cutting. This method is generally called the "homonym method", which just illustrates the characteristic form used in the analogy. , and the purpose is not clearly stated. This concrete analogy thinking method among the people is more lively and not as rigorous as the "analogical reasoning" at the scientific level. This method is also used in Chinese folk paper-cutting to express psychological activities, and peasant women especially use this method to metaphorically express their pursuit of sex (see "Unique Experience and Understanding" for details). When Chinese folk paper-cutting uses analogy, it will use multiple forms of analogy at the same time, including meaningful analogy, morphological analogy, homophonic analogy, as well as multiple analogies and local unit analogies. There are also many forms of analogy use, including the overlapping type, in which the object used for analogy is superimposed on the object used for analogy, and the substitution type, in which the object being compared is replaced by the object being compared. This method is often used to express mental states. and abstract things; surround, putThe objects used for analogy are arranged around the objects being compared. These forms can also be used simultaneously, including overlapping, surrounding and replacing. A kind of paper-cut pattern popular in Ansai County, northern Shaanxi Province, which uses a variety of analogy techniques. The theme of the performance is the reproduction and survival of life. In the middle of the pattern is a cross-shaped radish (partial overlapping analogy). The three lush leaves show that the radish is full of vitality. The peony flower is analogous to the female, and the radish is analogous to the male. The matching of the radish and the center of the flower represents the intercourse between men and women (content analogy). The petals are connected to cut out a pomegranate, which is a symbol of fertility (partial unit analogy). At this point, the artistic expression of the theme is completed. The theme shape is located in the center of the paper-cut, and other things are used as analogies around it to strengthen the artistic expression of the theme. Cut out a lotus (female) next to the mouth of the pomegranate (male), showing the compatibility of men and women, connecting the (lotus)