Zhongyang folk paper-cutting folk custom group development
According to Mr. Wu Bing'an, "vulgar people" exist among all people, and they represent the cultural characteristics of most people; vulgar people carry all folk culture; vulgar people are not all ordinary people. Typical characters express the characteristics of folk culture and are also individuals of the folk. "Volume individuals" are individuals among the vulgar people, or those individuals who make up the vulgar people. Individuals in the vulgar people group can be called "vulgar people individuals" together.
American folklorist Alan Dundes believes that in theory, a group must consist of at least two people, but generally speaking, most groups are composed of many people. A member of a group may not necessarily know all the other members, but he will know the common core traditions belonging to this group, which give the group a sense of collective unity. Among the folk individuals mentioned in this article, there are two types of people. One type is people who are currently engaged in paper-cutting skills or intend to engage in paper-cutting work, and the other type is people who have no or little interest in paper-cutting. These two types of people They all know a lot about paper-cutting, and the development of their paper-cutting custom can be said to be a customary process. In this process, the two types of people adopted two different attitudes and methods, thus forming different views on paper-cutting skills.
The premise of customization is the origin of human society. Every individual is born into the group to which he belongs. The group first agrees on its own customary system in its survival and life practice. In other words, when each individual individual is born, there is already a custom in the group that they need to practice. As far as the paper-cutting technique is concerned, whether it is for its original practical purpose or its current appreciation, it still exists in the daily life of the local people in Zhongyang. That is to say, after hundreds of years of development to this day, paper-cutting has become a part of the local peoples life. It is an indispensable part of daily life, and every individual layman will be exposed to it more or less in his or her daily life. The process of conventionalization is related to human "instinct", natural growth, re-conventionalization and personalization. The customization of the paper-cutting and window decoration skills of individual folk is mainly related to their own growth environment and individuality.
Every person’s growth environment includes two parts: the natural environment and the social environment. The main factor that affects the development of individual paper-cutting skills and customs is the social environment. When a folk individual is born in a family or family with a tradition of paper-cutting skills , subtly he will pay more attention to this skill, and then become interested, take the initiative to understand this custom, and personally participate in it, and finally become a paper-cutting enthusiast or paper-cutting expert. Among the ten paper-cutting artists interviewed by the author, most of them became interested in paper-cutting skills because of the influence of their families or families.
Among the top ten paper-cutting rookies in Zhongyang County, none of them are interested in paper-cutting skills. This is related to the above situation. The development of their paper-cutting skills and customs is mainly related to personalization. For folklore, personality does not lie in the different emotions, personalities and other exclusive ideas between him and other people, but in the development process of his unique concept of "self", because this process is closely related to his customization process. The formation process of individualization is mainly in the late adolescence. As for the formation process of paper-cutting skills and customs discussed in this article, it means that the acquisition of paper-cutting skills by some people is mainly related to their own personality and has nothing to do with family.
Among the top ten paper-cutting rookies of the authors vegetable vendors, they all have this situation, that is, there was no environment for paper-cutting since they were young, mainly because they later became interested in paper-cutting through watching and understanding paper-cutting, and thus began to become apprentices. Learn the art of paper cutting. Today, as paper-cutting skills have become a compulsory manual course in local primary and secondary schools, I believe that a group of young people who are interested in paper-cutting skills will emerge in the process and join paper-cutting activities, thus strengthening the local paper-cutting industry. Team. For the development of group paper-cutting skills and customs, the group here mainly refers to the small group formed by the part engaged in paper-cutting skills. They gather together because of their common hobbies and interests. For example, with the support of Zhongyang County Government Next, the University for the Elderly organized and run by a group of local old paper-cutting artists is a typical small group. The members of this group are all famous local old paper-cutting artists. They mainly gather regularly to exchange paper-cutting skills and prepare students for those who are interested in paper-cutting. Active youth teaching methods are used to enhance internal cohesion and collective identity. This small group carries the culture of paper-cutting skills and shares their own skills. With mutual support and help, they form a distinctive group and at the same time generate shared values, group consciousness and unanimous will. Because of their common interest in paper-cutting, And get together to improve their paper-cutting skills through mutual exchanges and discussions, so that their own skills can be improved. At the same time, they can use their own strengths and personalities to make their works unique, and jointly promote the development of Zhongyang folk paper-cutting and make their works more unique. It occupies a place in the forest of domestic folk art.
