Traditional Folk Chinese Art Research

Every nation has its own intact and systematic cultural system which is based on the profound traditional culture. Having experienced thousands of years of cultural development,Chinese characters not only witness the evolution of the civilization, but also become the most cohesive central symbol among the traditional culture. This kind of ideographic symbol is the only one character which has been inheriting continuously.Chinese folk characters are the real and vivid reflection of common people's thoughts. They are spontaneously created on the basis of the indigenous cultures in order to reflect the life of common people. They are unique character art because of their own common aesthetic pursuit.Chinese traditional philosophical view always pursue a sense of natural and harmonious beauty in many aspects like human and nature, theory of li and qi, object and mind, body and function,beauty and elegance and so on. The creator of the Chinese folk characters unintentionally created the aesthetic realm which attracts the artists to pursue. This kind of aesthetic realm is endowed by the nature. Although it doesn't have the elegance and rational senses as the pure artistic form does, it does have the sense of freshness and plain. Art originates from life. Now we regard this kind of creation which is based on this view as art because it can attracts a large number of appreciators and acceptors and it can express the primarily wishes and pursuits of human beings.This kind of deep-rooted cultural tradition, to some degree, remains the most basic, the most essential and also the most traditional aesthetic standards.