What is a decorative design symbol? What does it have to do with culture?

What is a decorative design symbol? Decorative design symbols are a medium to carry and transmit information, and decorative design symbols can also be used as a simplified means to understand things. Talking about the relationship between decorative design symbols and culture is a very complicated topic.

Decorative symbols are often a representation and promotion of history and culture, or represented by animals and plants, or transformed by words, or combined with geometric figures, or painted by a certain cultural totem. There are many ways to embody their culture.

The Chinese nation has a history of 5,000 years and has incomparable advantages in cultural inheritance in other countries. When this cultural wealth is applied to architectural decoration, it will make ordinary decoration more common and present a profound artistic conception, thus showing a strong national style and traditional artistic effect. Related decorative design symbols can be summarized as follows:

I. Special Geometry

Compared with complex pattern design, geometric figures have the characteristics of saving materials, being generous and concise. Any pattern is composed of points, lines and faces. The simple combination of geometric figures can not only give people unlimited imagination space, but also show the fashion of the times for decoration design, form a simple and clear visual feeling, and form a sharp contrast with the complicated social life, so as to get rid of the noise and relax.

Second, the application of animals and plants

Animals and plants are one of the main manifestations of traditional culture in China. According to their different growth and life characteristics, China traditional culture endows them with higher spiritual meaning. For example, the "four gentlemen" often mentioned in poetry and Chinese painting-plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum-all have their own unique properties, which reflect the different qualities of people with noble sentiments. In addition, there are animals and plants in some proverbs, such as longevity and rejuvenation on Nanshan Mountain.

Third, wonderful totem.

China has had various totems since ancient times. For example, the "Dragon" totem representing the Chinese nation is a well-known one. In fact, in a long culture, China has various totems, such as "Brave", "Phoenix", "Xuanwu", "Xianbei Ruishou", "Eagle" and "Wolf". It is not necessarily a real animal or plant. Totem plays an irreplaceable role in our national culture. For example, the dragon totem has become a symbol of the soul of the Chinese nation. Some of these totems exist in the objective world, and some are invented by us subjectively. No matter what kind of totem it is, the ancients gave an extremely exaggerated description in image design because of its powerful implication. Although the totem image originated from life, it is far higher than life.

Fourth, complaint.

Chinese characters are another embodiment of China culture. In addition to various forms of calligraphy, Chinese characters have a long road of development in our whole history, and on this road, each form of writing can be used as a traditional decorative symbol of interior decoration in China. Successful decorative design symbols are not only visual satisfaction. It should be a kind of spiritual enjoyment, and the intuitive expression and brief introduction of words is a good means to set off the design theme. For example, a casual single Chinese character or a string of flowing words (mostly poems and songs) can bring different artistic conception to the design concept, whether it is the aesthetic feeling of the words themselves or the emotional connotation.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) changes in cultural forms.

In the traditional culture of China, in addition to the above specific decorative design symbols, there are some abstract cultural forms, such as "blank space" in the picture, "symmetry" and "asymmetry" in the pattern (unbalanced expression), and plain, elegant, brown-black, gray and so on in color, which can all be expressed as a kind of detachment, relaxation and leisure, which is also the design of traditional culture.

In short, your topic is relatively large, and it is difficult to express it only by these short sentences on the Internet.