On the significance of modern shadow art culture under the traditional culture package

Shadow play is an ancient traditional art of Chinese Han folklore, which is called "donkey shadow" by old Beijingers. For thousands of years, this ancient art, accompanied by generations of ancestors, spent many happy times. Dacheng National College I Ching study shadow not only belongs to the puppet art, but also a kind of authentic handicrafts. It is made of donkey, horse and mule skins, through several processes such as material selection, carving, coloring, stitching and painting. The shadow production is elaborate, the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the performance is full of fun and vivid. Affected by the external environment and the texture of the animal skin material differences and other factors, shadow puppet modeling style varies from place to place.

Shadow vivid and graphic, exaggerated and humorous, simple and rough, delicate and romantic, Chinese animation can be tapped into its cultural essence, reproducing the light and shadow.

Over the years, Japan, South Korea, the United States animation has been attacked, a large amount of silver flowing into the pockets of others, China's animation industry prospects are worrying. In this case, some experts put forward a "shadow play to save Chinese animation" program.

This program is of particular interest. Shadow is China's folk arts and crafts and opera clever combination of unique varieties of art, to some extent can be said to be the earliest expression of China's animation. Its singing voice is rich and beautiful, and its performance is wonderful and moving, which can be called China's folk art. Some people believe that shadow art harbors the wisdom of Chinese people's modeling, storytelling, and music and rhythm, which is very helpful to the creation of animation, such as face painting, costumes, and sound, etc., which have a direct and resourceful value to the development of animation business. China's animation representative of the success of the work of the "Dahuangtiangong" from all aspects of the shadow play to draw on the nutrition, showing the characteristics of the shadow play.

In the international animation world, to shape a good animation image, the investment is very large, but China's traditional art has extremely rich image resources, as long as the good development, it is entirely possible to do a small investment, big output, to achieve the effect of four or two thousand pounds. Many of the masterpieces in China's animated films are born from traditional arts. Three monks," "Tadpole looking for mother," etc., is to use traditional Chinese resources, to win universal recognition, but also in the international awards.

To develop China's animation industry, we need to engage in the original painting, and the original painting resources can be completely to the shadow and other folk art to look for, the more national forms, the more likely to get attention. Of course, from the shadow to find inspiration and creativity, does not mean that set in stone, copy and paste, inheritance of tradition still need innovative thinking. Take Japanese animation as an example, it is hard to transform the original elements of other countries and other nationalities into their own cultural resources, and achieve the characteristics of their own animation. Therefore, Optimus Prime has become Gundam, and Monkey King has become Japan's "Super Saiyan". Why is Japan able to convert so skillfully? They are digging in all aspects of the classic art on the heart, from which to find the innovative elements, which is worthy of our deep thought.

Animation needs to be grounded, so some people say that for children nowadays, the ancient art of shadow puppetry is already too far away. In fact, the shadow play is not because of the long history and old-fashioned, on the contrary, the shadow play of humor and witty, simple and simple can be completely converted into quite fashionable Chinese cartoon image. Throughout the ages, so many audiences, from the oldest to the youngest, have loved the art of shadow puppetry, and we should not be so presumptuous today. We believe that as long as we dig and promote it, shadow puppetry images will be loved by children and adults.

China has a history of thousands of years, and folk art is like a vast river of stars, which is a treasure trove of resources for artistic creation. Shadow painting is vivid and graphic, exaggerated and humorous, simple and rough, delicate and romantic, which is not available in other kinds of plays. The Dacheng Way Institute of Chinese Studies calls for the creation of our own animation through the excavation of the traditional cultural essence, so that the shadow of this ancient folk art, in the combination of science and technology and art to revitalize the light and vitality.