Knowledge and history of the Horse Spoon Face Painting

Horse Spoon Face Painting

The horse spoon is a utensil used to feed the horse, the round shape is used to hold water, and the long shape is used to add fodder, the pattern on the horse spoon is the divine spells engraved by the people in order to make their animals free from the harm of nature's pests and diseases to ensure that they can survive peacefully with the help of the horses and cattle and lead a fulfilling life, reflecting people's desire for peace and happiness, which is still the legacy of the Shang and Zhou cultures. The remnants of the Shang and Zhou cultures.

Horse Spoon Social Fire Face Painting

The Horse Spoon is used as the "paper" for painting, and the composition of social fire face painting is based on the social fire face painting. Sketching, coloring, focusing on eyebrows, eyes, mouth decorations, it is from the character and appearance characteristics of the characters, the parts of the five senses and skin color with exaggerated techniques to depict, and then highlight the inner nature of the various types of characters, emphasizing the contrast of colors, sensibility and bold, with a strong symbolic nature, such as: red loyalty and courage, white for the treacherous, black for the steel and straight gray and courageous, yellow and fierce, reckless and 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 warrior, 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 poor people, accidental disasters, we ask 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