Challenge: What are the tattoos on the face of the horse spoon? What are the symbols?

The horse spoon was originally a living utensil of the ancestors. From the summer and Shang Dynasty to the present, the use of high-quality tung wood, spring wood, mahogany and other raw materials, through the hand knife by knife carving and become. Shehu Ma Spoon Face inherits the profound civilization of China for five thousand years, and records the most brilliant folklore process of the Zhou and Qin cultures. Today's Shehu Ma Spoon Face Painting comes from the hands of poor and experienced folk artists. Their deep and solid workmanship, together with multi-layered patterns, makes the works highlight the western characteristics of big red and big green. The style is steady and far-reaching. Their rough shapes, childish patterns, strong colors, peculiar imagery, interspersed with changing lines, make the loyal and the wicked, the good and the evil have their own characteristics, which are both simple and delicate. The personality is fresh, free, bold, exaggerated and colorful, fully demonstrating the rich imagination and extraordinary wisdom of the working people. The pattern content of the social fire horse spoon face painting is mostly taken from the folklore of "Fengshen Bang" and other figures with magic power and justice, which is meant to suppress the house, ward off evil spirits, drive away loneliness and loneliness, and express people's good wishes for blessings and good fortune. Aesthetic decorative effect is excellent, is not lost as an extremely valuable handmade art collection.

Horse spoon face is an ancient large-scale social fire performance blueprint, by the folk artists from generation to generation secret. The origin of social fire can be traced back to ancient sacrificial activities. So far, Baoji area there is "play social fire" this traditional habit, Baoji social fire face to exaggerate the bold use of color, black for the positive, red for the loyal, white for the treacherous, yellow for the violent, blue for the reckless, green for righteousness, and so on. Performance of character features, especially to express the history of Zhou and Qin and the legend of the character is long, the social fire face image carved in clay, paper mold, wooden horse spoon, pike, wooden shovel, and its pen The roundabout smooth up, even and not board, work and not rigid, rough and bold, bright colors.

Social fire face painting, is the use of a horse spoon as a painting "paper", to social fire face as the content of the composition of social fire face painting. Outlining, coloring, focusing on eyebrows, eyes, mouth decoration, it is from the character of the character and appearance characteristics, to exaggerate the method of depicting the parts of the five senses and skin color, and then highlight the inner nature of various types of characters, emphasizing color contrast, feeling and bold, with strong symbolism, such as: red loyalty and courage white for treachery, black for steel straight gray brave, yellow fierce reckless blue and so on. The Shaanxi social fire horse spoon face painting shows the profundity of traditional opera with its gorgeous colors, sensual and simple style, and simple and peculiar artistic modeling. Horse spoon face painting, with its long history, mysterious and deep cultural connotation, is loved by people at home and abroad. Its ornamentation proves that the original symbols on the colored pottery five or six thousand years ago have been inherited completely in the face painting. The social fire face painting is based on the appearance and character traits of the characters, using different combinations of sun and moon patterns, fire patterns, swirl patterns, frog patterns and other decorations to show the character's personality. The colors are used to identify the character's loyalty, treachery, goodness and evil, red for loyalty, white for treachery, black for righteousness, yellow for brutality, orchid for recklessness, green for the Yi Chivalry, evil and wild, and gold and silver for the gods and demons. Wooden spoon face painting is very popular among people at home and abroad, and has a history of 1,500 years. Guanzhong area in Shaanxi Province and southern Shaanxi Province, the history of the popularity of hanging painted with colorful good face graphics of the wooden horse spoon to town house to ward off evil customs. Where the family encountered bad things, such as people not prosperous, accidental disasters occur, the social fire artists in the weekday scooping wooden horse spoon painted a good face graphics, hanging in the door frame or under the porch, it is said to be able to suppress the house to ward off evil spirits.