Chinese folk art: primitive culture and the cultural symbols of heritage

In the early 1970s, in order to more in-depth study of Chinese folk art, I left the long-term job as the Higher Academy of Fine Arts and Institute of the Arts, came to the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Yan'an reside. This is on the Loess Plateau is a brilliant historical and cultural traditions, and later closed because of traffic and culture, so as to preserve an extremely strong Chinese primitive culture of the land. Yan'an in the grassroots masses Museum of Art and heritage management work of the Committee 13 years, I had the opportunity to conduct in-depth folk arts, folk customs, folk culture of field visits and cultural and archaeological excavations on the census, cultural, archaeological culture and history Legend of Ancient History of Literature combination, mutual proven way to enter China primitive culture and philosophy of the deep primitive areas. , I also from the Yellow River valley into the Yangtze River, Liaohe River, Pearl River Basin, Xinjiang completed by the Shandong and Taiwan, from Heilongjiang to Hainan Island in the field of culture nationwide inspection; Since the 1990s, I am from China to India, Pakistan, the West Asian countries, Turkey, Egypt, from Europe to America, folk culture, archaeology and cultural history and culture of field visits to the Chinese folk art from primitive to the Chinese culture and philosophy of primitive, placed in human Cultural background, the culture of human common sense and unique ethnic culture and primitive primitive philosophy.
In the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the Loess Plateau of the ravine in rural areas, paper cutting, embroidery and the art of flower shape as the representative of the protection of God as a totem of all animal-based turtles, snakes, fish, frog, half of the turtles are Banshou people face, Yishen people face, supposed people face, frogs are people face, and all-round-the personification of God "grasping Ji dolls", it is overwhelming. These folk art works accumulated by the matriarchal society to the patriarchal social and cultural development and evolution of the totem course of the three, I think the beginning of a cultural totem ancient world, entered a group of ancient tribal cultural center. In the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Shaanxi Xi'an Banpo cultural underground archaeological excavations unearthed in Yangshao culture 6,000 years ago painted pottery on the Beas people face patterns and pottery pots on the so-called "net" symbols, remains popular today here in the rural areas; life as a God, and multiply, the god of life and symbols of supernatural symbol of today still live in people's social life. Similarly, the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Qinghai unearthed in 5000 before the Majiayao culture hand in hand painted pottery pots on five of the so-called "dancing doll," painted symbols, the people here today witch popular paper-cut art, was still calling back the soul of evil spirits as life God, "five dolls" (God five parties in the South and the North East and West), active in the rural social life. Underground archaeological relics unearthed will not speak, but now here are still living in the Loess Plateau in the Lao Tainiang cave for them to make a doubt, because in today's witch folk customs and social life, they still use these five 6000BC before the cultural symbols password. When I complete the study into the Yellow River culture Yangtze River basin, the depth to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in Hunan, Jiangxi, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Pingxiang between the rural, then in full swing "Wuli a Nuo God (Nuo God Temple), a General Wangsimni (Nuo the temple of God) "Nuo-Nuo opera-Nuo exorcise Nuo culture, and people wearing face masks horns Shenzhu the personification of God Pan Gu" jungle ", but also made me feel like entering a group of ancient tribal totem witch world culture .
China's ancient history documented by the legendary ancient history, this area was wearing a copper head horns Ngau Tau personal totem masks to Chiyou for the leaders of the three tribal groups MILLER Jiuli the center of this band and the ground floor of the Shang Dynasty unearthed Nuo bronze horns and face masks Taofan, has been confirmed to each other. In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Miaozhai mountains, is popular with people face to mask the main horns of God "jungle" Nuo-Nuo opera-Nuo exorcise Nuo culture. Miao totem of the cattle that Tauren the personification of God Chiyou (Pangu "jungle") is their ancestors, the ancestral home in Hunan, Jiangxi area; Guizhou Nuo Miaozhai no ancient temple, but not the underground unearthed bronze masks and horns Taofan mask, confirmed the original ancestors of the Miao nationality is not here, is Chiyou and Yanhuang tribal groups after World War II defeat from Hunan, Jiangxi border area here quite Liuxi to the historical legends.
Alive the folk culture such as Chinese folk art can be as the study of Chinese culture of primitive living fossil. For the study of Chinese history and culture, primarily through the archaeologist with the Archaeological Finds of cultural sites to explore and study, the historians mainly through the study of historical documents written records. But not speak archaeological artifacts, historical documents, ancient history, legends difficile opinion authenticity, as neither seen archaeological excavations, historical documents not seen a cultural phenomenon, a complete blank on the issues. China, known as the four ancient civilizations of mankind, its long-standing historical and cultural traditions, there have been no cultural faults, it has many of the nation, a vast area of land and other unique historical and geographical conditions, in its folk arts, folk culture Folk culture, still maintains an extremely rich and ancient history and culture remains. Especially those of Chinese civilization, as the ancestor of several tribal groups primitive society the geographical birthplace of the clan culture, history has there been brilliant cultural peak of the clan, was due to natural and manmade disasters natural ecology has been seriously damaged, a closed and traffic of cultural closed Geographical. In these regions the cultural and social life, including civil works of art, can still see the very rich and the ecological integrity of the original primitive Chinese culture and philosophy of primitive form of expression. Underground relics unearthed will not speak on the heritage of living for them to make a stunning interpretation. Scholars 100 Spring and Autumn as the source of the philosophy of the Chinese system of philosophy primitive, folk culture is still as the philosophical foundation and the main content, pervasive, comprehensive accumulation of ethnic groups in social life, accumulated in the various folk art Works.
Chinese folk art in rural working women as the main body of China's rural areas to create hundreds of millions of working masses of the civil culture and the arts, culture and arts groups, arts and culture of the Chinese nation is the mother. It into ethnic groups in the Community, the festive customs, taboos and beliefs in life rituals of social life; it is from primitive society to today's China primitive culture heritage renewal, and have a distinct national identity and geographical features of it is Chinese culture in the form of the longest history, the masses of the most extensive and most distinctive geographic features, historical and cultural connotations of the most abundant one of a long history of cultural patterns. Its cultural content and artistic form, the Chinese nation from primitive society to today's Qibaqiannian for the historical and cultural accumulation. So its value far beyond its own artistic value, with rich and profound philosophy, aesthetics, art science, archaeology, history, ethnology, sociology and the study of human culture, and so on multidisciplinary cultural values. From the national culture as a whole, Chinese folk art reflects the philosophy of the entire nation, cultural awareness, emotional and psychological quality of temperament. Life and reproduction is the universe of things all the instincts, awareness and to propagate life is a basic human sense of cultural awareness, and thus for the distillation of the chaos of yin and yang, yin and yang, consistency, chemical and biological things, all things going primitive philosophy of the Chinese world view. This concept of Yin and Yang and Sang Sang of China's reunification of the primitive system of philosophy, was born in China Liuqiqiannian before the primitive society, a primitive Chinese culture the core of the universe. Human Genetic rely on the genetic inheritance of all human culture heritage, is also on the national cultural heritage of that nation primitive culture and philosophy of the primitive tradition, the Chinese folk art reflects the culture on the Memory, this book will also introduce this point of view and interpretation of Chinese folk art.