Zigong Fancy Lantern Folk-art Aesthetics Research

Fancy lantern folk-art in Zigong district is the distillation of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and Folk art. Through long-term development, it has been rooted in the people's lives, created and inherited by working people. Since its appearance,fancy lantern folk-art has been experiencing sustaining inheritance and development to nurture the soul with pristine and pure beauty. As the times progress and technology advances, fancy lantern folk-art gradually becomes mature, is enjoyed by people all over the world and develops to be a very refined-popular and enduring modern fancy lantern folk-art culture.Zigong district which has the whole history of the fancy lantern culture is the source and treasure house of Chinese fancy lantern, keeps the most primal foundation of fancy lantern culture. Its unique geographical surroundings and culture characteristic affect the development and reform of fancy lantern folk-art. The fusion of salt culture gives fancy lantern folk-art in Zigong district different cultural connotation and displays its specific particularities and fascination.The culture of fancy lantern folk-art is not only the manner of delivering culture, but also an approaching to promote the economic development and information exchange. By the fusion of fancy lantern folk-art element in modern design, fancy lantern folk-art displays the traditional cultural connotation and adds new forms of expression to commodities.This paper is based on the in-depth analysis of the art style of fancy lantern folk-art, its art language and cultural connotation. By combination with local culture characteristics, the paper put the culture of fancy lantern folk-art into the modern design to make the art have new unique glamour. Several aspects will be introduced and studied as below:1.Analyze and study the history and source of Chinese traditional fancy lantern folk-art and its inheriting and development routes.2.Combining with the regional culture features of Zigong district, analyze the origination, flourish and development of fancy lantern folk-art, analyze the sorts, modeling characteristics of fancy lantern folk-art in Zigong district, and make an approach to its art language and culture connotation.3.To put the fancy lantern folk-art into modern design, meanwhile, apply fancy lantern folk-art element to modern design to provide the special art with new vitality.