The Village Folk ¡¤ Folk Art

In recent years many research focus on folk arts. The academia had extensively discussed related issues when they carried out field investigation; solving many important issues and some remained to be investigated. This thesis selects folk bread flowers in Xiaocheng village, Yanchuan county, Shanxi province as research object, makes synthetic study on village, folk-custom and folk arts by thorough investigation in small area, aims to reflect the academic history of past research and think some new probl ems on thi s basi sThe thesis is divided into three parts The first part describes in detail the living background of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village with three chapters Chapter 1 introduces location space of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village, and analyzes the whole situation of Xiaocheng village including geographic position, natural environment, humanistic environment, historical change, agriculture and economic status and the like, moreover, shows establishment status of Xiaocheng folk arts village. Chapter 2 introduces folk-custom living space of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village, and discusses the basic necessities of life, faith, marriage and bearing status, entertainment and education, and folk-custom etiquette of villager. Chapter 3 analyzes the cultural context of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village including source of folk arts concept, understandi ng of the concept and cogni zance of fol k arts by villager, al so i ntroduces several representati ve f ol k arts i n the village.The second part gives emphasis to analyze the manufacture, use and development of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village. Chapter 4 introduces in detail manufacture and use of bread flowers in various folk-custom etiquette of Xiaocheng village, and analyzes the folk-custom connotation thereof. Chapter 5 describes some important change of village in recent years including economic development, changes of villager's life style, and change of traditional folk arts and so on, wherein folk paper-cut has the greatest change, not only developing much novel subject matter, but also becoming article by economic intervention. Chapter 6 analyzes the change and development of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village; by comparison with paper-cut and comparing the history of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village, knowing that manufacture and use of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village do not greatly vary with change of village.On the basis of the aforementioned two parts, the third part makes analysis and discussion on some specific problems. Chapter 7 analyzes the origin and material characteristics of bread flowers Chapter 8 discusses the functions, artistic features and inheritance characteristics, considers that the mainly functions of bread flowers in Xiaocheng village are fete and pray for blessing, and because of the simple artistic feature thereof, making the inheritance not to be greatly changed, also relates to regionality and diversity problems. Chapter 9 makes analysis and comparison to bread flowers of other regions, poi nts out that bread flowers have new development in many regions such as becoming special article, occurring male bread flowers fabricator and making innovation to bread flowers subject matter and decoration and the like, thereby observing the change of folk arts occurring at the fluctuant society environment.