China Moon Cake Mold Of Traditional Arts And Crafts And Design Patterns

Chinese folk arts and crafts are an important Chinese cultural heritage. The study of which and its exploration and development are every Chinese people's responsibilities and obligations. Mid-Autumn Festival is our traditional festival, and eating moon cake is our traditional practice on this occasion. We have been keeping a guardian of this tradition for a millennium, despite the fact that the moon cake made before no longer exists, moon cake molds scattered in the folk world can provide us with many clues, through a careful research of its shapes, patterns, forms and content of the text, you can explore people's different expression of folk culture on Mid-Autumn Festival. Taken as a window through which we can also explore the social progress and social changes, as well as the traditional sources of Chinese culture. These provide a new perspective for us to see the evolution of the traditional auspicious decorative patterns in various periods of history.Talking of moon cakes, certainly it is inseparable from Mid-Autumn Festival. There can be found a close connection between the evolution of moon cake mold's shape and patterns and the increasing importance of this festival in people's minds. From the formation and development of Tang and Song Dynasty until the flourishing Ming and. Qing period, Mid-Autumn festival was not only as a traditional festival, the rich cultural connotation behind the festival is of more importance too. That might include worship the moon on festival month, celebrating the harvest, sharing and feeding "reunion cake", praying on marriage and offspring, burning lamps of pagoda and the settlement of accounts. These customs influence moon cake mold patterns and themes of decoration in various degrees, while there can be seen the richness and colorfulness in form and technique of expression, the main theme is limited and fixed relatively speaking.Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival in the past, people take moon cake making almost an indispensable program at every household. In this way, home made moon cake molds became common people's indispensable utensil for daily use. Since Moon cake is a self-made with unique character of each household, making moon cake mold naturally shows difference in shapes, with varied and rich pattern. As food of a festival, Moon cake character and pattern embody the rich culture connotation. Every piece of exquisitely carved moon cake mold can be called exquisite folk crafts. These patterns are inextricably linked with the Chinese traditional culture and every image and decoration has ancient origins, and each decoration is rooted in the fertile soil of traditional culture. As the traditional Chinese culture stresses festivity, old-style moon cake mold often carved with fortune in graphics "FuLuShouXi" and so forth. In addition, the moon-palace, Goddess Chang E, the Jade Rabbit, peach, flower fans, and flower baskets are also common patterns used.on moon cake molds. Furthermore, unicorn, bats and other auspicious animal sometimes are held on.patterns as well. The means of its decoration is extremely rich, there are pattern of interlock branch, broken branches stripes, animal patterns and geometric patterns to name a few. Besides the interludes and transform use of these patterns, the moon cake mold shows a usual rule of using the shape of a circle lace to make it more attractive. The main and decorative pattern plus the lacework decoration---all these elements of the traditional moon cake mold form some sort of specifications. With the development and maturity of this technology, such norms and specifications are gradually changing, making the style become more flexible, which also lead to the birth of more and varied types of moon cake mold. The variety of patterns of the moon cake mold in different times is simply amazing.The old moon cake mold shows changes in uniform of shape, in addition to the common round and square shape, there are some strange style moon cake molds, which is made of a special pattern design, mostly animal graphics, small and lively; sometimes the shape of petals and plant graphics are used. Most of these shapes have cultural roots. Mid-Autumn Festival hosted by our ancestors is loaded with wishing for auspiciousness and happiness, which is reflected in each moon cake mold. This article, through studies of a large number of moon cake molds, summarizes the form of art shown on moon cake mold from several perspectives so that the apparently loose and Fragmented moon cake molds are endowed with systematic and wholesome feature.Today, the moon cake mold has long been disappeared in our lives. Modern large-scale mechanized production takes place of the original production crafts, and mold making process is more mature to make today's moon cake beautiful. Decoration patterns are added with a great deal of modern elements in addition to following the traditional design. So old-fashioned traditional moon cake molds become increasingly rare exquisite collections, at the same time, these molds become a valuable witness of development and changes in our social life.