The impact of traditional commodity markets on paper-cut window grilles in Yu County
“When traditional folk art appears in the form of commodities, it means that its function and marketability take precedence over quality and artistry.” “The production of folk art mobilizes various production methods and even industrialized mass reproduction to be put on the market. , the motive of obtaining profits seriously affects the form and nature of folk art. The requirement for utilitarianism exceeds the quality itself, and the artistic nature gives way to the amount of profit obtained from market exchange. "Under this situation, the artistic taste that led to Yu County paper-cutting is changing.
With the increasing demand for paper-cutting products in Yu County, the enterprise management method adopts traditional paper-cutting techniques according to the needs of the market and customers, and innovatively develops and produces modern handicraft paper-cutting. For traditional paper-cutting, there is only limited production. Even if it is discontinued, it will be displayed in the exhibition hall as a historical collection. Although there are still a large number of old houses in remote towns and vast rural areas with old wooden windows and the folk custom of putting up window grilles during the New Year. However, with the process of social modernization, it is foreseeable that people can still put up window grilles during the New Year. As fewer and fewer people stick to window grilles, will traditional window grilles decrease or even disappear?
If Yu Countys paper-cut window grille production technology disappears from the history of Chinese handicraft production civilization, it will definitely be a major loss to human cultural and historical heritage, and this loss often cannot be measured in economic or material terms, let alone Most of them are the damage and losses caused by human civilization. Therefore, it must attract the attention of all protectors of Chinese handicrafts. (More reading: Problems in the development of paper-cutting in Yu County)
