Auspicious Patterns And Messages-Aesthetic Connotations Of Shanxi Paper-cut

In the folk custom life of Shanxi people, there is a handicraft of paper-cut which is spread in people’s lives for a long history. The Shanxi paper-cut is created by laboring people for meeting their spiritual life’s needs and it is a style of art which is applied and spread to people’s lives. It exists in laboring people’s lives and contains people’s devotion of life and the rich imagination of laborers, which expresses the thinking of people that is loving life, loving reality, and pursuing the wonderful life and future.According to the author’s understanding, the paper-cut is based on people’s emotion and imagination and grasps and reflects laborers’real lives. It is a creative activity which is from the figurative art to the abstract artwork; it presents the actuality and the emotional ideal; it switches roles from the aesthetic subject to the aesthetic object via the imagination.In a word, the topic of this paper is "Auspicious Patterns and Messages--Aesthetic Connotations of Shanxi Paper-cut". Based on the custom of Shanxi, the author describes the humanistic spirits and the aesthetic ideas which are involved in the art of paper-cut, and tries to discover the implied meanings and symbols of pictures. The aesthetic ideas originated in the reality, but beyond the reality, it is the special mental world and the pursuit of values, which belongs to the Shanxi folk culture.