Explore The Folk Tendency Of Chinese Film

As an ancient nation, China has accumulated profound culture over the development of thousands of years. The unique and distinctive culture has close relationship with the daily life and production of the diligent and kind-hearted Chinese people, especially those of the masses of the working people. With the development of the time and the progress of the society, human being have gradually become mature; during the long historical evolution process, all kinds of aspects, such as human material, spirit, social and so on, have gradually formed some conventional culture, which is called folk custom. Chinese folk culture represents the characteristics of Chinese nation, which distinguishes the ancient Chinese nation from the other nations. No matter it is progressive or backward, its formation and development is carried out by the masses of the working people on their own account, without any forces and resistances involved. Therefore, it represents creation and collective wisdom of the working people.Originating from life, art is much higher than life. The theory of "art originating form labor" tells us that it is during the constantly recurrence of the working people’s production and life that various patterns of literature and art appear; and they also express all sorts of their own feelings and experiences in the process. At the same time, the formation of various literary and artistic patterns also enriches the working people’s spare time life and makes them enjoy entertainment and recreation over the boring and heavy work.Film as a kind of art category is the product of modern science and technology and the humanistic spirit, it is not free from the influence of the folk culture. And both them affect each other in deeper and broader degree and scope. For a long time, the Chinese film shows the distinct national styles and characteristics and shines with dazzling exuberance in the global world, which is not separated from the great help of the folk culture. Among the generations of directors in China, there is no shortage of directors, who could understand and love folk custom, and add folk culture into the screen. They express the folk custom in the form of film and enrich the latter through the folk custom. Not only do they make out a series of "folk spectacle" for the majority of audiences, but also open the door for the foreign artists to understand the ancient Chinese culture. The reason that they simultaneously choose folk custom as elements of a film is that because folk custom is precisely the thing representing the essential characteristic of Chinese nation. Being completely different from western civilization, it can best deep into the origin of the national spirit and do best in making the gorgeous landscape of the national characteristics.What belongs to a nation is what belongs to the world. This paper tries to discuss what kind of form folk custom could adopt to aid the development of the film in the Chinese movies on folk custom, presents what kind of aesthetic value and aesthetic function, and make both such a kind of modern artistic form film and ancient folk culture shine each other and play their own roles together. We try to make Chinese folk custom more international and let the Chinese film more typical.