A Study On The Phenomenon Of Clay Man In Huishan In Modern Times

The development history of Huishan clay figurines in Wuxi,with a history of more than 400 years,can be summarized in three sentences: they were born from "crude goods",brilliant because of their literary creation,and famous for their "fine goods".The change of Huishan clay figurines has undergone the transformation from clay figurines to hand-made playwrights.Since the founding of New China,the economic attributes of clay products have been constantly highlighted,becoming a hot-selling practical commodity at home and abroad,and one of the important foreign exchange earni ng products in Wuxi at that time,and reached an unprecedented peak in the late 1970 s and early 1980 s.When the market changes from planned economy to market economy,Huishan clay figurines are sublimated to folk art,and their artistic value is constantly rising.However,the consequent sequelae gradually emerge: too much neglect of Huishan clay figurines as commercial attributes of products makes their market competitiveness gradually weak,and the development of Huishan clay figurines has entered a dark period.After that,as a traditional culture,Huishan clay figurines were protected,while overemphasizing their artistry,the product attributes were further weakened or even disappeared.At the same time,the aesthetic and cultural accumulation of the practitioners has hardly kept up with the pace of market aesthetics,and has almost been eliminated by the market.Some of the older generation of master practitioners began to realize that only from the artistic point of view to protect,not to guide and de velop the commodity.Then Huishan clay man still has the possibility of extinction in protection.