Analyze The Strength Of Symbol And Folk Cultural Connotation From The Modeling Of Dough Art In Shanxi

For thousands of years, the art of dough modeling is widespread in the Yellow River basin in China especially in Shanxi village. It is the precious works of art of the Sacrifice or gift in weddings and funerals, traditional festivals. As a kind of folk cultural art forms, the art of dough modeling is closely related to people’s life, customs, beliefs, worship and so on. The modeling of Shanxi dough art is simple and beautiful. Its various forms are rich of imagination and the style features which rough but not coarse, fine decorative but not cumbersome. Shanxi sculpture art inheritance and extension with its unique decorative style and folk language in folk custom activity for thousands of years. As a folk custom culture carrier and media, it expresses people’s yearning and prayer for ideal life, the desire of survive and thrive, and the psalm of life, delivered the cultural implication of the forms of folk custom.Based on field investigation and literature study method combining, Shanxi sculpture art development, decoration style and cultural connotation of research and analysis, to explore the Shanxi sculpture art form the philosophy idea and the cultural connotation, explore the folk sculpture art and folk culture, folk life Association, at the same time, through the perspective and analyzes the representation of dough modeling, understand its decorative motives and purposes.The discussion on Shanxi sculpture art heritage and development to think. This paper takes Shanxi Folk Dough modelling style, elements content description, and then by the shape symbol symbolic, folk meaning analysis, reveals the connotation of folk cultural connotation of Shanxi figurines, and the folk custom culture and sculpture art inheritance forward thinking. The first part is introduction, introduces the research purpose, significance and research methods. The second chapter summarizes Shanxi sculpture art production, distribution and development. The third chapter specifically analyzes the Shanxi folk sculpture art design elements and decorative style, analysis of common modeling category, on this foundation, put forward folk culture, symbol, symbol, symbol of moral concepts, explore the dough modeling in moral symbols used, including table number, harmonic tone symbol, the use of such methods. The fourth chapter analysis the dough modelling contains the philosophy idea, including the original religion and primitive worship, ingrained reproductive concepts of yin and Yang and the five elements, color concept, the original myths and legends and other factors. The fifth chapter on folk psychology is analyzed through the examples, folk customs, different to Shanxi folk rituals in the dough making and modeling are introduced in detail, and analyzes the folk-custom connotation thereof, and Kat Hannaford from flooding disaster, harm avoidance and other folk life ideal perspective. The sixth chapter summarize the dough art and folk culture, folk activities is the art of dough modeling survival foundation, at the same time, dough art is also rich and spread of the folk culture, has the symbolic dough modeling content rich folk culture connotation, and the connotation is the inheritance and development of folk art of dough modeling the inherent power.Thesis on the basis of field investigation, the accumulation of the material were summarized in this paper, comprehensive, select the representative case for autopsy, analysis, through the transverse, longitudinal comparative guide to the deepening of the research, to further explore the dough that folk art form of folk culture connotation.