Research On Ritual Art

This thesis centered on the village corridor bridge rewarding gods of Qingshui She in Central Fujian,studied the ritual art activity that arise from them,returned the art research narrative to concrete social life as well as dynamic time.Firstly,the researcher investigated three aspects of basic information on which the ritual art is based,which were the identification of the main crowd of ritual art,cultural background of clan-community geo-symbiosis,the function of the corridor bridge as the main place of ritual art in rural society and its architectural language,and the detailed description and social function interpretation of the corridor bridge rewarding gods.In this way,it revealed the cultural background,spatial attributes and specific events on which the art of the ritual of the corridor bridge rewarding gods depends.Then,taking the ontology of ritual art as the research object,it tried to use the methods of classification analysis and systematic interpretation,from the perspectives of ritual function,formal characteristics,expression logic,life restoration,etc.,to clarify the various types of ritual art that continue to appear in the process of corridor bridge rewarding gods.And the three characteristics that these ritual arts have in common as a whole system: born for the ritual,interdependent,and self-needed.Finally,the existing status of ritual art was investigated,and three basic variables were re-analyzed,which can be seen that economic demands have changed the spatial nature of the place where ritual art occurred and the ritual system has also changed accordingly.From this analysis,it can be concluded that the internal nature and external form of ritual art have changed,and the various forms of existence of ritual art were developed in the changes of the times.The research method of this thesis was mainly influenced by the research paradigm of regional art history under the influence of "New Historiography",focusing the research vision on specific and micro social life and widely absorbing and applying the theories and methods of other humanities besides fine arts.The specific operation level mainly implemented the field investigation method and the literature analysis method,used a large number of first-hand materials obtained in the field investigation,and strengthened the literature reading and analysis to form theoretical speculation.The conclusion is stated on two levels.From the academic level,this study attempts to break through the general taxonomy of traditional folk art research by focusing on ritual art as the main narrative line;and it places ritual art in a specific context for discussion,establishing a research text with a realistic research text.From the perspective of reality,it is believed that ritual art for the ceremony of rewarding gods is a carrier of cultural practices of the villagers,which gains and losses in the changes of the times.By correlating the factors of profit and loss with contemporary society,it examines the values of ritual art in different generational contexts,reveals the continuity and change of values,so as to grasp the direction of cultural transmission and development,in order to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of Chinese rural society.