Study On New Year Wood-block Prints In Hua County From The Perspective Of Cultural Ecology

Hua County New Year wood-block prints are a traditional Chinese folk art born in the farming civilization,which contains rich humanistic resource value in its unique regional artistic characteristics and cultural connotation.It was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.Under the radiation of agricultural civilization,the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,as the symbol form of the regional cultural representation system where the cultures of the Central Plains and the Yellow River come together,have been well inherited and developed in the cultural ecosystem formed under the interactive influence of cultural factors such as natural environment,social system,economic form,folk customs and beliefs,ethnic character,habits of thinking,mental memory and ethical emotions.However,in the process of social civilization evolution and cultural changes,the contradiction and conflict between the inheritance and development of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints and the modern social and cultural modes of industrialization,globalization and urbanization are constantly escalating,which brings up the dilemma of the inheritance of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints in the contemporary era.From the perspective of cultural ecology,time as the line,based on the research method of art anthropology,this paper deeply describes the local cultural space of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,and conducts an all-round,multi-level and three-dimensional dynamic study from the perspective of the combination of time,space and people.Therefore,in accordance with the time order of cultural changes,this paper is divided into the following five chapters to discuss this.The first chapter,starting from the historical origin of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,based on the previous research results and personal field investigation and evidence collection,supplements the temporal and spatial source points of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,and interprets the content of their basic themes,so as to affirm the research value of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints and define the specific scope of local cultural space.The second chapter,from a macro perspective,puts the Hua County New Year wood-block prints in the cultural context of "agricultural society",analyzes the cultural ecosystem on which the Hua County New Year wood-block prints depend to survive,and deeply understands the internal relationship between the Hua County New Year wood-block prints and the local cultural ecosystem.From the four aspects of natural ecosystem,geographical and cultural space,folk belief system,folk rituals and taboos,this paper makes a local interpretation of the mechanism and cultural roots of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints.The third chapter discusses the interactivity and symbiosis between Hua County New Year wood-block prints and other art categories within the same cultural ecosystem.This paper mainly focuses on the interaction,interpenetration and symbiosis between the Hua County New Year Pictures and the folk arts such as folk literature,folk ballads and local operas in the common ecology to further explain the internal relationship between the Hua County New Year wood-block prints and the local cultural ecosystem.The fourth chapter puts the research on the aesthetic connotation of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints in the context of local culture,deeply analyzes the aesthetic connotation and cultural root of the symbol of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,and explores the interinfiltration mode among culture,personality and social system in a situational way.This paper mainly focuses on the local cultural space and cultural groups of Hua County New Year wood-block prints,and starts with the cultural ecological factors such as local cultural tradition,social system,ethical concept,ethnic character,aesthetic tendency,emotional attitude,etc.,so as to deeply describe the Confucian culture and Taoist thoughts contained in Hua County New Year wood-block prints,and make local explanations.The fifth chapter puts the Hua County New Year wood-block prints in the cultural context of "industrial civilization" and "post-industrial civilization".Starting from the central argument that the evolution of social civilization and cultural changes lead to the imbalance of cultural ecology,the development status and dilemma of the Hua County New Year wood-block prints in the process of industrialization,urbanization and modernization are specifically discussed.And how the Hua County New Year wood-block prints,as intangible cultural heritage,can be reproduced in the reconstruction of cultural ecosystem.Finally,in the cultural context of "post-industrial society","metacosmic society" and "post-agricultural society" under the ideal construction of the future,the cultural ecology constructed by"agricultural society" is taken as a reference,and the trend of Hua County New Year wood-block prints under the reconstruction of cultural ecology in the future is analyzed from the perspective of human civilization and cultural diversity.