The Exploration And Research Of The Shape Of Paper-cut Art In Traditional Folk Of ShanXi

In the 21-st century ,human civilization has entered a new space-time. Whether you admitted or not, each of culture tradition, culture element or even culture gene have confronted with decisive choices. Paper-cut is one of the shape pattern of traditional art, which goes back to ancient times in our nation. Futhermore, ShanXi is one of the birthplace of Chinese Culture,where exists a heavy atmosphere of customs in local residence and wide-spread distribution of paper-cut art. On the other hand, because it was inherited the ancient modeling patterns of our nation completely, which was considered as "living fossil" by experts. Based on the unique advantage of paper-cut in ShanXi, the thesis will dialysis the modeling patterns hopefully in the multi-directional perspective, in an attempt to grasp its spirit and meaning of culture better through the exploration and research of the reason of modeling development.From the Neolithic antiques and voluminous image stones of Han dynasty in Shaanxi Province, a lot of familiarities could be found with the traditional Shaanxi paper-cutting. The art of Shaanxi paper-cutting is not only the continuity of the primitive consciousness of genitals worship, but also is influenced by the 'martial' concept of Han Dynasty and the worldly culture, therefore, the figure of Shaanxi traditional paper-cutting is manifested with a valiant, bold, soft and vivid character. The fact that its artistic form could be inherited after such a long time is because of its wide correlation with the folk culture, and its existence is the combined product of practicability and spirituality, inside which the specific Chinese dialectal philosophical concept of 'oneness between man and nature' is embodied The law of its image model is different with the mainstream western 'focus' perspective law, manifesting the 'self-centered' omni-directional spatial modeling method. Many of the images in Shaanxi paper-cutting is no longer the original natural form, but embedded with a magical power through the modeling concept of 'everything has a magic' and through their combination with each other to satisfy the need to make up the deficiency of the human beings. Many themes are produced to express the eternal topic—the lust for 'living' of the human beings, and as time passed, it became a symbolic logo spread in the public. As to the traditional art at nowadays, the attention usually goes to the facial phenomenon of the unfamiliarization, therefore, when it comes to use the traditional art elements, we usually linger on its form by mechanical copy and paste. Thus, this could only make the folk art stay on the memories of the past, and could not be acknowledged and recognized by being fused into the ideology of the contemporary people. In fact, only based on the understanding can we talk about how to inherit and develop the traditional arts, or it is just a big talk.When we study on the artistic characteristics of the folk modeling, the human factor which plays a leading role behind the form should be given special attention. In this article the Shaanxi traditional folk paper-cutting is studied from the productive thinking of the human being and we should stand on a historical position through which the original factors forming this old modeling could be better understood. Based on the accumulations of our ancestors, the characteristics of Shaanxi traditional paper-cutting modeling is understood through the historic culture, folk culture, figure culture, productive thinking, formational analysis etc., and some of the problems existing in the paper-cutting are analyzed from the status quo in order to have a deeper understanding of the hidden meaning of the existence of the artistic life. Art is related with each other, therefore, in this article, the inner relationship of the formational layers of Shaanxi traditional paper-cutting is also studied from the aesthetic angle, and it is also put forward in this article that the study of the folk modeling art should be deepened to its artistic layer for this is the backbone of the popularity of the folk art.