Cultural Implication And Cultural Characteristic Of The Huizhou Woodcarving

As a radiant pearl in the field of folk woodcarving decoration art originated from Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Huizhou woodcarving, which is innovative from the intense Huizhou culture, engages brilliant local culture characteristic and the esthetic value, in respects of its theme and the content, the creation method and the modeling form with the profound cultural implication. Based on the methods of sociology, cultural science, ethnology, esthetics, artistic analysis, this article summarizes the motivation of creating the Huizhou woodcarving, affected by all sorts of factors inclusive of political economy, geographical environment and humanities background, Furthermore according to the theme types divided into the person character depict, the ritual life, the scenery, the prose annotation, the creature aspect, the design and style, it exclusively analyzes cultural connotation in the Huizhou woodcarving, and through elaborating creation methods, the characteristics of plan, design, modeling etc, it illustrates the esthetic value in line with integrity, modishness, nature, vibrancy etc.As a final point, on the foundation of above overview to the Huizhou woodcarving, it points out the four features in the last part of this paper: 1st, the Huizhou woodcarving art takes as one cultural existence of the folk culture. 2nd, the Huizhou woodcarving concentrates the commingle expression for the China traditional culture, which primarily refers the Confucianism culture, and mutually Huizhou folk custom culture. 3rd, the esthetic sense of the Huizhou woodcarving is in favor of general pleasance of the folk. Lastly, as the widespread folk amusement, the Huizhou woodcarving presents the characteristics enjoyed by both elite and popular tastes.