A Study Of The Symbol Form And Meaning In Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting

Gaomi Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting is one of the traditional folk art in the Shandong Province, it has a distinctive regional cultural features and symbolic characteristics. Paintiting reflects the labor people’s understanding of life, nature and society in the agrarian times. At the same time, through metaphor,symbol, harmonics, and other visual forms to expression people’s life yearning and pursuit. It vividly recorded the Gaomi varieties local conditions and customs and it become an important vehicle for dedicating people’s emotional and information. According to Susan·Lundgren’s theory that art is creation of human feeling in the symbolic form. Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting is the art of put the people’s emotional concept into visible symbols.This paper intends to analyse the Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting’s image structure, semantic representation and rhetoric with Saussure, Pierce and Cahill semiotics theory. From all levels to grasp of Paintiting’s symbol structure, and then explain the Paintiting’s symbolic representation of the connotation and denotation significance. Based on semiotics method and theoretical analysis on the Paintiting. To recognize the Paintiting’s cultural value and better protect and pass on the Paintiting. Generally speaking, the thesis is divided into three parts as follows:The first part mainly describes the origin and definition of symbols. Firstly, from the four development modes of semiotics, semiology application and symbols constitute to explain the art symbol characteristics, at the same time to carding genre style, theme, artistic features of the Paintiting. Secondly, from semiotics perspective to explain the Paintiting symbols text of points, lines, planes and color element. Finally, combining western semiology theory of biaxial inductive the Paintiting polymerization principle of shaft and the grammar of the composite shaft.The second part from the ideographic symbols to express the meaning of the Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting’s connotation and extension meaning, at the same time with the reference of Saussure and Pearce symbol theory, to divide the Paintiting into image symbols to narrative and symbolic symbols to associate based. Then discusses the connotation and extension meaning of each symbol, and explain the Paintiting symbols appoint.The third part is based on the basic principles of rhetoric and communication to discuse rhetoric method of the Flapping Ash New Year Paintiting symbols used, and explain the Paintings from the code symbol to establish the process of deconstruction, analyzes the symbolic process and transfer, finally analysis the Paintings symbol context, symbolic reasons, explore how to protect and inherit the Paintings of this cultural heritage.From the semiotic theory to research the Paintings is not only a kind of exploration, and review the Paintings is not to repeat the past. In fact, any kind of folk art should have its own position, all the folk art are closely linked with production and way of life, customs, religious beliefs, when sending a change in lifestyle it means that some customs changed, and in this process will have some folk art disappeared in the tide of history, the Paintings drifting further and further away from the people’s daily life, but the meaning of symbols did not disappear. The Paintings practical value continue to retreat, but the culture and value to the collection is concerned gradually, for a while emergence of the Paintings combined with government participation in the operation of the market chaos, drive up prices of reality, the academic circles unable to agree on which is right, the author thinks that rational use is the method of creating preservation of dust New Year paintings best, just as Shiono Matsu said "as long as alive, will the wind again".