The connotation and beauty reflected in folk paper-cutting
The unity of beauty and goodness refers to the unity of form and content in a certain sense. This aesthetic concept is reflected in ancient Chinese design culture, that is, the principle of the unity of practicality and aesthetics. Paper-cuts of various forms clearly embody the principle of both beauty and kindness. Folk paper-cutting not only reflects the aesthetic ideals and motivations of folk artists, but more importantly, it has functional practicability in real life.
Northern Shaanxi Folk Paper-cut Fish Playing with Lotus
For example, if a child of a family gets married, the window must be pasted with paper-cut window grilles of "Fish Playing with Lotus", which not only has an interior decoration effect, but also has an element of beauty. It can also play the role of cold protection, ventilation and air circulation, which is a good factor. It not only enhances the festive atmosphere, but also acts like a curtain to separate indoors and outdoors. Based on the principle of combining beauty and goodness, all kinds of paper-cuts not only embody good practicality, but also pay attention to the decorative effect of formal rendering, and use beautiful patterns to embody intuitive beauty and decorative effects. It constitutes a rich visual cultural landscape and profound folk cultural connotation of Chinese folk paper-cutting.
Traditional Chinese art is mainly freehand brushwork, pursuing a beautiful artistic conception that blends scenes and complements reality and reality. Folk paper-cutting is no exception. Folk artists often perform artistic processing of natural forms. Through the vivid fusion of sensory rendering of formal representations and conveying symbolic meanings, paper-cutting not only has objective and practical value in life, but also embodies emotions in objects. Expressive and freehand painting constitute a vivid and beautiful artistic conception, which embodies high artistic value. Paper-cutting art can closely connect instrumental music and dance outside the picture, allowing people to feel the beauty of the body and the beauty of the melody outside the picture. For example, the paper-cut scene of "Spring River with Flowers and Moonlight Night" vividly depicts the beauty of artistic conception in the beautiful scenery of the good time in the world: when the evening drums send off the sunset, and the sound of the flute welcomes the evening of the full moon. People are roaming in the calm spring river in small boats. The green mountains on both sides are verdant, the shadows of flowers and branches are reflected, the moon is dancing in the center of the water surface, and the oar grooves are adding sound. Not only the tangible artistic conception, but also the intangible phonological artistic conception. Excellent paper-cut works integrate poetry and artistic conception. They not only have visual artistic conception, but also have wonderful phonological artistic conception flowing from the picture.
