Why folk artists like to "bun doll" as the subject of paper-cutting performance

I. The origin of paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk traditional decorative arts in China. Folk paper cutting contains culture far beyond the paper cutting itself, the durability of China's civilization is reflected in the distribution of different cultural zones in the regional culture, as well as in the different regional cultures in the early cultural convergence and fusion of change. The folk paper-cutting of different regions is the information of the early culture of the region, reflecting the cultural archetypes of different cultural periods. For example, the turtle, snake, fish, frogs in the northern Shaanxi paper-cutting doll snake coiled rabbit inverted deer tree of life coiled intestines, etc. are distinctly reflecting the early totem culture, belief in life, the concept of reproductive worship of cultural information. Folk paper-cutting as an important carrier of folk culture and the realization of the way, maintaining the most original cultural roots of the folk art. It should be said that Chinese folk paper-cutting is also an important factor in the durability of Chinese civilization, and folk paper-cutting is also a classic of traditional national culture. Second, the expression of paper-cutting art paper-cutting art, the expression of the content of a very wide range of forms, a wide variety of subjects. First of all, the art of paper-cutting in a wide range of materials, landscapes, flowers and trees, birds and animals, stories and legends are paper-cutting materials, especially in the family compound within the holy land of men and women dolls, cows, sheep, mules and horses, pigs, dogs, cats and rabbits, fruits and vegetables, have become the women's scissors under the permanent subject matter. They take these subjects through the cut to decorate and beautify the family environment, to express their understanding of life and feelings. Secondly, the content of paper-cutting is colorful and diverse, including the expression of auspiciousness and festivity, reflecting the traditional folklore of the two dragons playing with pearls and auspicious beasts, the camel entering the treasure, and the maqui presenting longevity; reflecting reproductive reproduction and love, the peacock playing peony, magpie stepping on plums, butterflies in love with the flowers, the fish drilling the lotus flower; blessing of peace and well-being, and praying for blessings to befall the beasts of fortune, the tiger coming down from the mountain to catch the bun doll, the lion rolling the embroidered ball and delivering the blessing to the dolls; a folktale of the Liu Hai playing with the toad and the tiger; and the expression of love of the labor Wang Xiang lying ice fruit favorite wheat, grain, melon, peach and apricot. These works have a strong local flavor, reflecting the people's living customs on the Loess Plateau, full of their understanding of life, feelings, love and pursuit. Once again, the expression method is flexible and the paper-cutting skill is skillful. The color of red and green monkeys stepping on the stone, human dogs sitting in the lotus mainly, monochrome, sets of colors, dyeing, etc.; cutting method of Yang cut, that is, to leave the outline of the image of the lines; Yin cut, that is, cut off the lines to leave the plane, there is a combination of yin and yang cuts, folding the symmetry of the paper and cut the cuts, shading cuts, pattern cuts, and so on. In order to line rich and varied, multi-colored, artists also created the use of plum blossom pattern, cloud hook pattern, jagged pattern, Tianhe pattern, crescent moon pattern, point pattern, water pattern, pattern and other cutting methods, they with a pair of dexterous hands, the life of the tailor to a thousand different, lively, interesting and poetic. Third, cultivate young children's interest in paper-cutting, the development of its image thinking paper-cutting is the premise of sensory perception, image thinking is an important way of thinking about the practical process. Paper-cutting activities are conducive to the development of students' perceptual ability, thus providing rich nutrition for thinking, and gradually cultivate students' image thinking ability and improve students' comprehensive thinking level. Through a period of practice, the author believes that paper-cutting is not only very consistent with the physical and mental development needs of students, but also can cultivate the spirit of patriotism, in paper-cutting teaching activities, stimulate children's interest in learning paper-cutting, form good learning habits and creative consciousness, can enhance children's aesthetic interest and aesthetic literacy, and to cultivate their love for life, the motherland, as well as to create a better life and the ability to desire. How to cultivate young children's interest in paper-cutting, I think the following points for reference: 1. create a game situation to enhance the interest of young children in paper-cutting we can design a paper-cutting works exhibition, in the children to watch lifelike works, the teacher guides the children to say: children are willing to learn paper-cutting? They are happy to say: yes! So we will cut out their own works to young children to show, and let them hold in their hands to see, observe and direct contact with physical objects, more stimulate the curiosity of young children, mobilized young children's interest in paper-cutting. Teachers and students **** with hands-on operation, and further increase the children's interest in learning. We first cut a few simple and beautiful window 2. create a paper-cutting atmosphere teachers should first create a good paper-cutting environment for children, such as enjoying some of our famous paper-cutting artists of paper-cutting works, so that they feel the rich national flavor and atmosphere, feel the charm of the art of paper-cutting. For example, decorate the walls with folk paper cuttings, and put colorful window flowers on the windows. Regarding paper-cutting, what children usually know most about are window flowers and the various kinds of happy and lucky characters they see when they are married. Window flowers have triangular, pentagonal and hexagonal shapes; and happy and lucky characters come in different forms, which are also of special interest to them. Therefore, the children were assigned to collect these joyful characters and window flowers after class and bring them to share with each other. The children asked me to teach them how to cut these happy characters, so I asked them to learn the simplest way to cut double happiness with me. After the activity, each child held their work with a happy smile on their face. Since then, they have been very interested in paper-cutting and often cut all kinds of window flowers in the regional corner.3. Gradually guiding the children to carry out paper-cutting activitiesWe let the children start from practicing tearing the paper to cultivate the children's ability to perceive the whole image. The first step: we put some images related to the children's daily life experience, punched holes for the children to tear, the children tearing while telling what they are tearing? From tearing straight paper to tearing simple shapes, children exercise their small hand muscles and hand-eye coordination. The second step: we draw these images on the paper, no longer punch holes, let the children tear along the contour line, the children's overall perception of the image of things stronger. In the process of tearing the paper, the teacher respects the wishes of the children and affirms what else the image torn out by the children looks like. Continuously strengthen the impression in children's minds. Step 3: Gradually transitioned to the direct tearing of paper away from the drawing line, to the extent that they want to tear what they can tear. Introduce the use of scissors at an appropriate time and establish rules and requirements for their use. As children become more and more skillful in using scissors, they go through the process of cutting along the outline to cutting off the lines. In the younger grades, children can initially master folding and cutting in half, and rotating paper without scissors during the cutting process. By the middle and older classes, children's paper-cutting skills are becoming more and more skillful, especially in the older classes, they need more than one or two techniques taught by the teacher every day, but through the guidance and prompting of the teacher, to do a three, by analogy. Focus on cultivating young children to freely create paper-cutting. 4. Use of parental resources to learn the "Guide" pointed out that: make full use of the educational resources of the family, expand the space of young children's life and learning, home and family cooperation, *** with the promotion of young children's healthy growth. For example: we carry out animal theme activities, in order to create an environment, we invited Wang Minzhi father cut some small animals. I did not expect the unintentional willows into shade. A lifelike little goldfish, live little crabs, let the children marveled, I also quickly said: to learn, I also want to cut such small animals. Looking at the children's enthusiasm, the father patiently guided and helped the children to cut paper. With his help, many of the children's minds opened up a lot. With the cooperation of parents, we use the paper cuttings to beautify the environment. Give children a creative space, encourage children according to their own imagination, boldly create new patterns, cut flowers, window decorations, can be decorated classrooms and offices. Children see their own works of art to enrich the wall to beautify their own living and learning environment, not only can stimulate interest in paper-cutting, but also help to improve children's keen observation, stimulate young children to feel the beauty of the expression of the beauty of the creation of the interest of beauty. Children's series of paper-cutting activities to change the passive state of what teachers teach children to learn, so that children in the mastery of certain skills on the basis of free choice of their favorite objects for paper-cutting, because it is the children's own choices, it is bound to hold a serious attitude to take the initiative to explore, to overcome certain difficulties to complete, every time they complete a piece of work, they are very happy, and really experience the joy of success, but also for the next time, the children will be very happy. Whenever they finish a piece of work, they feel very happy and really experience the joy of success, but also for the next paper-cutting to add internal drive. In short, early childhood paper-cutting art education is a practical and strong applied research topics, need to explore and research aspects of the problem is still a lot of problems, we only find the art of paper-cutting and the reality of the combination of theory and practice of education, with modern education methods and means to teach the art of paper-cutting knowledge and skills, in order to make paper-cutting education across the time, to achieve better results.