Spirit And Form

The thesis sorts out and explores the artistic styles and characteristics of Shanxi traditional festivities and their cultural spirits on the basis of the study on the native folk arts-Shanxi traditional festivities, their decorative artistic forms as well as connotation, and thus makes up the weakness and films in the gaps in detailed division of the field.It begins with the investigation on decorative language (picture language) used in Shanxi traditional festivities, according to relevant literature knowledge existed, data collected directly from field, based on enormous pictures. It makes an investing and comprehensive study on the form language and cultural connotation of decorative arts of Shanxi traditional festivities form historical fine arts and sociology level, combining the knowledge of art psychology and culture anthropology. Case analysis and common issue analysis, dynamic and static analysis are integrated. The aim of the concrete study on the contents related to the topic, with is carried out form different angles and by various kinds of method is to make a deep understanding on Chinese traditional decorative arts as well as their cultural spirit, establish national , regional, folk and original arts status, fulfill their cultural functions that deserve, and spread and update then in current information and culture age.