| Paper-cutpaper_cut is the art carrier and expression form of folk culture. It is a folk handicraft with long history, widely distributed, and a large number of participants. Regional differences make folk art come into being different genres. Among them northern Shaanxi paper-cut is an important genre.As the birthplace of northern Shaanxi culture, Yulin is the representative area of northern Shaanxi paper-cut. Yulin folk paper-cut is primitive simplicity massiness and vivid and elegant, which combines bold and vigorous character of the paper-cut in north part of China and meticulous, realistic character in south part of China. It is invested with rich cultural connotation of ethnology, anthropology and history. It also shows national ecology artistic charm by its special regional, folk custom.With the changing of modern aesthetic opinion and lacking of confidence of their local culture, pseudo-folk paper-cut filled the market by mutual plagiarism. Paper-cut’s styles become more and more same, losing their authenticity. Paper cutting as a non-material cultural heritage, the protection of the status is urgent.The first chapter mainly describes both the geographical environment and human environment which Yulin paper-cut lying on; the second chapter narrates the conditions of Yulin paper-cut survival status and inheritance by analyzing the field survey data; the third chapter analyzes Yulin paper-cut in the view of styling techniques and aesthetic modeling; the fourth chapter elaborates conceptions of Yulin paper-cut art and multi-cultural connotations; as the conclusion part, the last chapter analyzes and elaborates Yulin paper-cut art in three aspects. They are the inheritance present situation, problems and Consideration of the protection of heritage. Then we draw the discussion that, folk paper-cut art is a vivid manifestation, symbol, and quintessence of national traditional culture. In the process of inheritance and protection, we should pay more attention to the cultural space and the inheritress of Yulin paper-cut art. And then it need to format cultural consciousness. |