Explaining The Art Of Chinese Paper Cutting From The Angle Of Semiotics

Symbols are media for human understandings of the world. They're material tools for him to express his thoughts and feelings. Only by symbols can human convey his knowledge and communicate with each other. Indeed human's conscious mind is a world of symbols This article explain the Chinese paper-cut from the symbol semiotics view. Its purpose makes a new space for studying symbol of folk custom by using the way and the view of symbol semiotics and provide a new way of thinking and a kind of theory resources. It excavate new sense from the traditional culture. So we can deepen our comprehension on the Chinese paper-cut. This article; use the theory of symbol semiotics to analyze atom symbol of the Chinese paper-cut. Let us have a new look on the Chinese paper-cut and on the same time it replenish the folk-art.This thesis is divided into five parts: Study the theory of the Chinese paper-cut semiotics. The classify and display the symbol of Chinese paper-cut. The semantic meaning express of the Chinese paper-cut symbol and the composition of semiotics on the paper-cut, to analyze the design skill on the paper-cut and so on. This thesis analyze the Chinese paper-cut from the theory of semiotics to find the connections between the paper-cut with semiotics. To analyze the characteristic of semiotics from the combination of symbol of the Chinese paper-cut; To analyze the intension and arrangement of symbol of the paper-cut from the semantic meaning of the Chinese paper-cut; To find the using ways in the paper-cut which can be used on the modern design to analyze the design skill on the paper-cut. I hope to make a new space for the Chinese paper-cut by using the view and the way of symbol semiotics.