Research On The Educational Function Of The Zhuang Brocade Designs

Zhuang Brocade is the traditional handicraft made by Zhuang women, which has a long history and tradition. Zhuang brocade is not only accessory and supply in Zhuang people’s daily life, but also the indispensable "needlework" of Zhuang women and is essential of female dowry. The color of Zhuang brocade is brilliant; the pattern is exquisite, durable, and full of strong ethnic characteristics. It not only has a special aesthetic value and practical value, but also has high value of academic research. To a certain extent, under the impact of the modernization, the traditional culture of Zhuang Nationality is rapidly reduced or disappeared, and the decoration as a carrier of the traditional culture of Zhuang nationality, which record and reflect Zhuang people’s social life style and reflects the dual value of history and society. Therefore, to research and protect is necessary for Zhuang culture.Taking Zhuang ornamentation as the research object, through the analysis of the patterns of literature data, combined with field investigation, using learning theory, theory of educational anthropology and cultural anthropology; explain educational functions of Zhuang brocade patterns. This paper is mainly made of by the analysis of Zhuang brocade decoration and its education function.Firstly, through literature review and investigation, there are three main kinds of Zhuang brocade decoration. They are geometric decorative decoration, decoration of plants and decoration of animals. Geometric patterns are mainly based on grid lines, plant decoration is the main pattern, and animal pattern is mainly to phoenix. The color style of Zhuang brocade patterns is shading highlights, contrasting. Strong sense of Zhuang brocade is neat symmetry, exaggerated, rhythm patterns abstract. The rich brocade decoration is Zhuang people create in the interaction of natural environment and social environment, the geometric patterns, plant grain or animal pattern, its creation mainly comes from the real material world, reflects the features of natural and social nature.Based on describing the design modeling, the main decoration for interpretation, combined with Zhuang myths and ancient poetry of animal and plant the decoration in the related description data, analysis of the content contained in the decoration of the Zhuang psychology, ideology and worship, mainly includes the following three aspects:1. The carrier of Zhuang nationality brocade patterns of historical memory.2. The national religion of the Zhuang brocade patterns shows the image.3. Decoration also reflects women’s culture and ethnic culture characteristic.In the interpretation of the next based on the analysis of the connotation of ornamentation, further discusses the educational function of Zhuang brocade patterns. The educational function of Zhuang brocade decoration mainly has the aesthetic educational function, cultural knowledge, behavior norms, and promotes the teaching function of collective values and other aspects of the multilayer surface. Through the analysis of the function of the Zhuang brocade patterns, formation and development of Zhuang brocade decoration function has experienced the process of practical--aesthetics. The decoration is Zhuang population ethics, aesthetic and cultural character of the comprehensive embodiment is a reflection of certain social environment and social consciousness in social behavior.