Study On The Magpie Image In Folk Art

Magpie is the common bird adored by Chinese people. It is not only existed as a creature in cosmos, but it is also a materialized shape embodies spirit and emotion in people’s Notion. People endured it with image besides its picture. Based on different times, the notion of Magpie went through many stages, including the germination of the auspiciousness Notion in early time, the co-existence of auspice and ominous notion, the unity of auspice and ominous notion and finally it develops into the mainstream notion of auspiciousness and happiness notion. Magpie’s auspiciousness notion materialized in the form of folk art and finally became the united auspiciousness image of form and content. It is not only the artistic form that delights the mass to decorate life but also expresses the simplest psychology and the spiritual demand with the deep meaning hiding behind its artistic activity.This thesis is from the view of folk art, combining Art, Folk Art, Folklore, Iconography, Anthropology of Art and other related theories and ways and taking Magpie’s auspiciousness notion as subject object to have deep research for the generation and development of auspiciousness notion, the manifestation of Magpie Image and the auspiciousness connotation. Through the research of the subject, it deepens the Magpie’s auspiciousness notion and explores the symbolized meaning of images. It enriches the folk art theories and inherit and develops auspiciousness culture.The thesis firstly talks about the analysis of the generation of Magpie’s auspiciousness notion and the deepening and development of Magpie’s auspiciousness notion in folk society. Then, this thesis studies the creation and manifestation of Magpie image under the spiritual pursuit of auspiciousness. Finally, the thesis studies the symbolized meaning of Magpie image and points out its many kinds of auspiciousness meanings. The Magpie image is one of the most important subjects in folk art and there are many kinds of Magpie’s images existing. The Magpie acts as the artistic manifestation of Magpie’s auspiciousness notion, which shows particularly the trait of auspiciousness and and an important part of auspiciousness culture, which become the psychological precipitation of the mass and promote the wide spread of Magpie image and have a profound influence.