A Study Of Ceremony Paper-Cut Of Jingxi Zhuang National Minority

The folk paper-cut is one forms that it is the most Universal and is also the works is most in Chinese folk art . Its vitality is very strong, it can adapt to different cultural reforming. It is one kind of artistic style which is created to satisfy with spiritual life of the working people and applied widly in the middle of them. The academic circle always pays great attention in the north Han Nationality area in the Chinese paper-cut art's research, pays few to attention the south area specially southern national minority's paper-cut art. The southern paper-cut is folk custom culture product in south of our country. The Jingxi Zhuang national minority ceremony paper-cut is inseparable with the witch matter sacrificial offering ceremony. As one folk fine arts, it takes root in the Zhuang national minority folk, has the deep national culture soil, expresses the Zhuang national minority people's simple folk belief and the religious belief directly.The present paper utilizations research methods of art anthropology, takes the Jingxi Zhuang national minority ceremony paper-cut art as the object of study, pays great attention to grasp of the origin, the vicissitude and the present situation of the Zhuang national minority ceremony paper-cut art, tries to discuss the connection of cultural space, the paper-cut and the sacrificial offering ceremony's cultural of the Zhuang national minority ceremony paper-cut, then researches the cultural status of ceremony paper-cut art which has in the Jingxi Zhuang national minority area, promulgates the Jingxi Zhuang national minority of the folk belief culture in the field inspection's foundation. This is helpful to protect the non-material cultural heritage of national minority, strengthens understanding the diversity of the human culture, provides the material for the study of our country's south national minority paper-cut art, provides the reference for the north and south as well as the Chinese strong paper-cut art contrast research.The dissertation includes three parts: preface, text and conclusion. The preface introduces the cause of the research , the relative materials, the aim ,significance and methods. The text concludes five chapters: chapter one introduces the natural and cultural environment of the field; chapter two introduces the inheritance mechanism and the activity process of the Zhuang people's art of the ritual paper–cutting in Jingxi County; chapter three introduces the people working for the art, including ritual experts, ritual assistants, believers and so on; chapter four classifies the art systematically; chapter five makes cultural interpretation and function analysis on it. According to the study of the art, the dissertation concludes that the ritual expert uses the art pattern of the ritual paper-cutting as a symbol of the witchcraft during the process of the witch rituals, so it greatly shows the symbol of the ritual expert's witch power . The ritual paper-cutting , the belief and ritual of the Zhuang in Jingxi forms a folk belief system of their own, which supports and confirms each other.