800 words of high school composition with the theme of "Look"

(analysis: to reflect the depth, it is generally necessary to start with materials such as country, culture and national spirit, such as the development of China's space industry. In short, it is to be positive. You must practice like this to improve your test-taking ability. Especially in the college entrance examination, I tell you that many candidates write well, but some of them are world-weary, anti-party and money-worshipping because of improper content. . These articles can only get low marks or even zero marks. Also, you should learn to draw inferences from others. Specifically, writing about the Wenchuan earthquake, for example, should not be restricted. If you change to snowstorms and mudslides, you should follow suit. Personally, I think it's easy to get high marks. Let's just say so much. . . . . )

I saw the traditional culture of China-paper-cutting technology.

Paper-cutting is a popular art form with a long history and wide spread in China. The so-called paper-cutting is to cut the paper into various patterns with scissors, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceiling flowers, snuff and so on. Every holiday or wedding celebration, people will stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on windows, walls, doors and lanterns at home, and the festive atmosphere will be more enthusiastic. In rural areas, paper-cutting is usually done by women and girls. In the past, paper-cutting was a handicraft art that almost every girl had to master, and it was also a standard for people to judge brides.

Technically speaking, paper-cutting is actually cutting and carving on paper to present the image to be expressed. Working people have perfected this art form in their long-term artistic practice and life practice by virtue of their own intelligence. Formed a variety of techniques such as tearing paper, ironing paper, color matching, color matching, dyeing, sketching, etc., so that the expressive force of paper-cutting extends infinitely in depth and breadth. As thin as a silkworm spinning silk and as thick as a big brush. Its different forms can be attached to the pendulum lining or hung in the air. Because the tools and materials of paper-cutting are simple and popular, and the techniques are easy to master, it has irreplaceable characteristics of other art categories. Therefore, this art form has spread almost all over China's urban and rural areas since ancient times, and won the people's love.

In human childhood, there is no distinction between "folk" and "non-folk". With the continuous development of civilization, the emergence of social classes and the division of functions, the historical concept of "folk art" relative to "court art" and "literati art" has been formed. Different types of works reflect the aesthetic standards of different classes and should be the basis of their boundaries. As far as paper-cutting is concerned, not all works cut and carved with paper can be described as "folk paper-cutting". In the history, there are many artists who cut paper specifically for the holiday customs of aristocratic citizens, and there are also many examples of literati painters painting for artists or professional artists using paper-cutting techniques to create. This kind of work is qualitatively different from the works created by working people for themselves, and most of them have been divorced from the aesthetic nature of workers, so it is impossible to be generally accepted by the public. Although some works are also circulated in some areas, they will eventually be unrecognizable in the variation because they are not created by the people themselves. Even today, paper-cut works in mass artistic creation activities in many areas cannot be confused with folk paper-cut. Mass creative activities can also take the form of folk paper-cutting, creating good works that the masses love and enjoy, and then spreading them among the people, but its creative purpose is often divorced from the needs of their own lives, and even expresses the intention of counselors. Although closely related, it is not a concept.

Therefore, when studying the scope of folk paper-cutting, we can't just look at the superficial form and think that all paper-cutting is folk paper-cutting, but ignore whether it is necessary for people's own spiritual life, whether it is understood and accepted by the masses, and whether it is widely circulated among the people. At present, the weakness of the basic theory of folk culture has caused confusion in understanding, which makes many people think that anything made by artists or craftsmen living in the folk, such as ivory carving and snuff bottles, can be classified into the category of folk art, which should be corrected. Folk art, including folk paper-cutting, is inseparable from the soil where workers live in terms of creation, aesthetics and application, which makes it obviously different from other works of art that coexist with it.

Most of the folk paper-cut works that can best reflect its true colors are preserved in remote mountainous rural areas, that is, rural women are the basic team. 1. Unity of dependence and independence.

Folk paper-cutting is a necessary artistic activity in line with folk customs. Its existence must depend on people's specific cultural background and living environment. There are white things at home, and the windows can't stick out great prosperity; The doll is not sick, and the grandmother refuses to cut a string of little people who hang their souls; Used to decorate gifts to see if it is a wedding, funeral or birthday; If the old couple put up a pair of wedding flowers at home, it must be a joke of young people; If there is no rain after a long drought, many people will curse it if it is not the "only daughter" who beats a wooden stick for rain, but the "lady sweeping the sky" who asks for sunshine. This dependent feature, which is restricted by the purpose of existence, is manifested in the composition treatment of specific works, that is, the decorative characteristics of works. Such as hanging door tags, bowl racks, clouds, etc. , must be connected by wire; Sticking the window requires sticking to the pane and hollowing it out, otherwise it will only look like a big piece of paper in the light; It is best to cut less fragmentary patterns when sticking around the kang, otherwise it will be damaged easily after a long time.

Many restrictions have also formed a unique language in art. Folk paper-cutting not only completes some folk functions, but also shows its independence-that is, the characteristics of beauty in its existence. No matter what occasion a paper-cut is used for, the author should pay attention to his own aesthetic feelings in the process of creation. As long as people use the standard of beauty to affirm it, it also has the aesthetic value of existence. Of course, the independence of folk paper-cutting does not restrict folk customs, but completely controls the free will of folk customs. Therefore. Its existence value also goes beyond the behavioral purpose of setting off folk customs.

This artistic independence is becoming more and more obvious with the changes of society and the gradual disappearance of old folk customs.

2. Unity of collectivity and individuality

In an absolute sense, any artistic creation cannot be simply considered as a purely personal product. People's social attributes inevitably reflect the artistic interest of a certain class. Personality is only developed on the basis of collectivity or tradition.

The collective characteristics of folk paper-cutting are obviously manifested in the final ownership of its works. Works are no longer the author's private property, but belong to the whole society and collective. Therefore, its final appearance must be the product of directly concentrating the wisdom of the masses and integrating the artistic talent and aesthetic preferences of thousands of people. In particular, some works that have been solidified over the years, after repeated carving and revision by generations, have basically taken shape and are generally recognized, circulated and preserved. For example, the prototypes of chariots, horses and weaving cannot be studied in detail. There are similar works circulating all over the country, and they are very different. It is hard to say which one is entirely created by one author. Then, an important reason for the formation of collectivity should be the anonymity of folk paper-cutting. Folk art is different from the creation of professional artists. The work does not indicate the author's name, nor does it have personal copyright. Good works spread around the world, and once spread, they become the source of a large number of plagiarism and variation works, and the author has integrated into the group concept of "laborer".

It is true that this kind of worker art without personal utility is indeed based on the solid collective consciousness of folk culture, but this is not enough to deny the artistic personality of folk paper-cut artists. Just as professional artists strive for artistic self-expression, but they will never lose their position in society and history, folk paper-cutting will certainly not lose their artistic self while expressing the national collective psychological consciousness. If the personality expression of literati artists is "the ego deliberately pursues the position in the' big ego'", then the personality expression of folk paper-cut artists is the natural expression of the ego in the' big ego'. Not to mention the artistic styles and characteristics of the east, west, north and south regions, together with the works of different authors in a region, they obviously have their own obvious personalities. If you look at flowers with contempt, it is naturally difficult to see through them.

Take the skillful hands of Zhang and Wang Lanpan in northern Shaanxi as examples. They are only a hundred miles apart, close in age and basically the same in customs and habits. Zhang's family was rich since childhood, and he liked to watch plays and listen to books, and was educated by the feudal middle class ethics. But he suffered all his life, lost his husband three times, got married four times, and gave birth to 13 children, all of which died. Therefore, the external character is melancholy, withdrawn, not talkative and idealistic about life. His creation is "forgetting chaos" and is rarely interfered by others. It can be seen that the burning pain in the heart is contradictory to its hidden character. In the process of creation, I am eager to achieve psychological balance through emotional venting. On the shore of Wang Lan, she felt that "people should be busy when they are alive, so that they can be happy." I don't expect much from life and the world, but pay attention to my contribution to society, which belongs to the type of "contented people are happy". His wife, Li Xinan, is a distinguished minister. She introduced apples to the northern Shaanxi Plateau, but she never expected anything in return. Therefore, his personality is cheerful and lively, straightforward and open-minded, confident and willful, positive and always informal. She cut the flowers because "I was asked to cut them, which means I cut them well. This is a compliment." If you can't do anything else, you can hinge a flower, which will be beautiful in your heart. "It can be seen that his inner world tends to emphasize self-worth. In their works, there are personal images with clear shadows, which can be described as "painting as a person". The existence of this personality not only conforms to the collective characteristics of local cultural traditions, but also makes no secret of the author's spiritual world, which is in sharp contrast with the hesitation and groaning in the performance of literati art and court art.

For a long time, folk paper-cutting has been regarded as repetitive work or the reproduction of traditional patterns, ignoring the personality creation of workers and artists, which is unfair in history. This is inherited or created by laborers according to folk customs and personal aesthetic preferences. Therefore, promoting the diversified development of paper-cut culture has become a major task of today's cultural development.