Shulan folk art? The Oddballs? -Ma's Bugu

Ma's Muppets is a matrilineal inheritance, is a kind of ancient skills passed down in the northern folk. In recent years, the third generation of Ma's Puppet heirloom has also continued to innovate, not only will the Puppet works of art to new heights, of course, many of us for some of the Ma's Puppet in Jilin is not particularly well known.

So, let's look for the answer from the perspective of Jilin culture!

Ma's Muppet artwork classification

Ma's Muppet artwork according to folklore can be divided into: mandarin ducks pillow: also known as the mating pillow, is the two goblet tiger head a body, embroidered rooster and pomegranate or auspicious motifs. Symbolizing the men and women together, love is strong, old age, never leave; Evil tiger: cloth red background and black lines of the tiger. Put it on the edge of the kang in the new wedding room, which means to drive away disasters and evil spirits; Tiger of Wealth: also called Tiger of Wealth, a tiger with black patterns on a yellow background. Placed in front of the cabinet in the wedding room, symbolizing wealth and prosperity; Ai Tiger: a tiger with yellow, white and black patterns on a red cloth background. Placed in the wedding room under the feet of the bride and groom, symbolizing the smooth reproduction of descendants, healthy and safe.

Artistic Characteristics of Ma's Puppets

The core art of Ma's Puppets is to sew tigers of different sizes and shapes, mainly because tigers have many legends and values in folklore. Tiger in Chinese folklore is the god of protection, the legend that it can be for people to guard the household, shock the house, drive away evil sycophants, drive away the five poisons, etc., out of the people's worship of the tiger, how to the tiger's form and colorful with the art of puppet art embodied by the method of cloth tigers all over the cloth tigers have different shapes, the Ma's cloth puppets in the inheritance of tradition at the same time, and strive to integrate their own styles and features into the creation of the traditional style and the combination of modern styles, characteristics of the commonplace The traditional style and modern style combined, characterized by vulgarity and elegance blend.

Ma's Boudou modeling variety, and folk customs and rituals closely linked to the big cloth tiger, tiger hat, tiger pillow, incense packets, needle zipper, etc., each piece of chic ideas, exaggerated modeling, full of charm. In the creative style of anthropomorphic techniques, the pursuit of God-like, not like, like and like between. A piece of colored cloth after cutting, sewing, embroidery, sewing on a large "king" word, an expressive, vivid cloth tiger was born. Since ancient times, people have hoped that the family prosperity, good luck, peace and prosperity, and the tiger is a symbol of courage, robustness, majesty, and then naturally have a shock house tiger, drive away the evil tiger, disaster tiger.

Ma's Muppet art is to create each piece of work with the traditional Chinese five elements color system. Such as the black tiger, red tiger, yellow tiger, etc., each of which is powerful, full of spirit, raised eyebrows, gnarled tiger beard, the majestic tiger head "king", the traditional pattern of repelling evil and sycophancy, so that people look at the eyes, the love of the mood is born.

Another feature of Ma's Muppet art is to make full use of traditional Chinese patterns. Such as cloud pattern, water pattern, dragon pattern, phoenix pattern, back pattern, ten thousand characters pattern, Ruyi pattern, etc., these auspicious patterns into each piece of work, all permeated with good luck and goodwill.

Ma's Muppets have the value of art, entertainment and ornamental three aspects, fabric art attainment is deep, favored by the people. 1995, Ma Shuqin was named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the folk arts and crafts artists. Her cloth puppet works have been circulated in 13 foreign countries, and her works have been circulated and used in more than 30 big cities in China. "Ma's Muppets" is a beautiful flower in Shulan folk culture garden, it arises from the folk, from life, rooted in the black earth, by the public like, will be new vitality.