The Heart Of Ruralist

With economic development nowadays, people are satisfied with their wealth and fortune, but they loss quiet mind and calm heart. At the same time, people's life are glutted with living style of western modern culture and western modern thoughts, which make people feel themselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit. Worry, dullness, despair and fear bow the heart and turn the spirit back to the dust. Thus, to care about traditional inheritance of folk art plays an important role in cultural ecology. That is, in modern society, more traditional culture and spiritual folk art need to melt into our life. Learn these handicraftsman and keep positive attitude in pursuit of art, recognize our spiritual world and construct harmonious society.Based on the point of view of traditional folk art, the thesis expounds the life of Mrs. Pengfeng and art of paper-cut from artistic anthropology and cultural ecology. By means of natural environment, humanities environment and folk custom environment and related living style, custom, emotion, the thesis probes into origin of style of Mrs. Peng's paper-cut, and her aesthetic standards. It attempts to answer the following questions: What is the difference between Mrs. Peng's life and other paper-cut handicraftsmen? What does her style spring from? What does she think of the art of paper-cut in the bottom of her heart? What do we draw inspiration from her life attitude in pursuit of art of paper-cut?The thesis is serious academic research in folk arts and crafts, avoiding singular thoughts and research methods. In actual life, various folk arts are closely related. If we didn't understand profound culture accumulates in the artistic soil and related custom and other art style, our research would have lacked depth and breadth. Hence, the thesis quotes a large number of ballads and songs of Gan Su Province, which enrich the content and raise vividness of folk art. Meanwhile, based on practical survey, it adopts artistic anthropology, quotes Mrs. Peng's self description including folk riddles, twists, folk songs, which make dissertation vivid and create actual atmosphere. In addition, it collects plenty of pictures which are chief works of paper-cuts, her life photos and 80 live demonstration photos. The purpose is to fill the gap of deficiency of record and oral description, reducing dullness. Those above mentioned lead people to find the difference between Mrs. Peng and other handicraftsmen.The thesis presents charming of paper-cut by common language and new point of views. Hence, more people are nearer to folk art and have a taste of Chinese traditional and local art and life world of artists. The research Mrs. Peng'paper-cut aims to make more researcher care about"last"folk artists and their life, to learn them in pursuit of paper-cut. We have to attach great importance to folk art and cause it to blossom and bear fruit on the motherland.