Northern Shaanxi folk cultural expressions and Northern Shaanxi origami

Because of the relatively special geographical location of the folk culture in northern Shaanxi, the environment for local folk cultural exchanges is relatively closed, and the cultural inheritance relationship within the region is relatively simple. Therefore, compared with some other regions, the folk culture of northern Shaanxi is relatively small. Most of the features of native folk art and many traditional art styles have been preserved, becoming a beautiful scenery with distinctive regional characteristics and colorful content in the forest of Chinese national art.

The main forms of expression of folk art in the folk culture of northern Shaanxi include: northern Shaanxi folk songs, northern Shaanxi Yangge, northern Shaanxi distillers song, northern Shaanxi Daoqing, northern Shaanxi duo, Yulin Xiaoqu, northern Shaanxi Suona, waist drum dance, paper-cutting, Suide Kang-head stone lions and other expression styles. Corresponding to the local cultural characteristics, folk art in northern Shaanxi generally has the dual characteristics of agricultural culture and nomadic culture, has obvious historical imprints, and has a "rustic" style formed by long-term accumulation and effects of the special natural geographical environment and social life. "Three major artistic characteristics: "atmosphere" and "life style".

The custom culture of northern Shaanxi is an excellent resource in the creation process of folk art in northern Shaanxi. The customary culture of northern Shaanxi is the accumulation of long-term practical life of northern Shaanxi people in the process of social life, and is restricted by the social environment and historical conditions at that time. In the land of northern Shaanxi, the customs of each local area have certain differences, and the folk culture of each local area is also relatively distinct. Folk paper-cutting art can be roughly divided into the following categories: festival folk paper-cutting, belief folk paper-cutting, daily life folk paper-cutting, ceremonial folk paper-cutting and funeral custom paper-cutting. Common ones include window flowers, kang surround flowers, hanging signs, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, etc.