"Fancheng-Shihou" And Folk Belief

"Fangcheng—Shihou"was born in a little villiage of Dushu—town in Fangcheng country, which is called"Yanshan"villiage and famous for its"Huang—shi—yan".This essay choses the kind of individual case of folk art mold—the stone monkey as a research object, with the relation bettwen the folk art mold and the people's folk believe originally, and aim at pointing stone monkey――this kind of life topic in the folk art shape usually with the good luck,and surround folks going after real, kind, beauty which is traditional beauty ideal.The key and the main part, pays attention to the relation of stone monkey and the folk belief .The little"shihou"contains"good time"or"good luck"that all people expect to get . The stone monkey is the way of a kind of existence and life, which can body the life consciousness and emotion of the local common people.This characteristical art form is the public's traditional mental portrayal.The folk faith is a community consciousness with special race,and collective life.The first part ,it is discussed that Shihou has distinctive feature; the second part which is the focal point of whole essay expounds the relation between the regulation of this monkey mold and folk faith; the last part gives the prospect of stone monkey. The essay discusses the creation ideal of the handicraftsmen passing their practical life, this is the emphasis and the difficulty of the essay , which also discusses the regulation of mold and its folk function; the novel point is that the essay pays attention to the collective of the handicraftsman. The development of the shape feature, topic, and shape princieple of stone monkey needs long time. A question which should be concerned is that the stone monkey shape is subjected to the dual restriction , and that, to a degree , the"practical value"and"appreciate beauty value", the supervision of the"beauty value"is less than the practical value. Along with the change of ages, the function of stone monkey at people's custom from appreciation beauty to practical use alternately.Because the way of the people'life style and belief, mode of thinking changed sorrowfully, so the variety meaning in folk and cultural contention also takes place immediately. The carving technique of Fangcheng stone monkey depends on the oral-teaching and the intelligent-memory, so, this kind of skill transmits generation by generation. It relatively has clear system which could develop this technique always. At the same time, Fangcheng—shihou has the typical model of the non- material cultural inheritance with the historical sequence clearly. It hoped that relying on the overall protection of the stone monkey carvings craft, making this kind of excellent folk craft skill develop its function with new craft realm at the new original material. Therefore, protection and excavation is so imperative.