The High Vis A Vis The Low

It has always been classified as a confrontational relationship between the"high"and the"low"culture when interpreting the main stream culture endorsed by the literati and the official versus the folk art backed by the country populace. As the two main realms of Chinese culture, they coexisted in the same cultural frame, with certain consequential interchanges and fusions. Guanzhong of Shaanxi province is highly developed culture region with booming folk and main stream culture. The paper cutting art from Doucun village at the Zhouzhi prefecture has time-honored and diverse features, exemplified the weaving relations of"high"and"low"in Chinese traditional cultural fame. During the long period of practice, Doucun paper cutting has established diverse varieties of styles, vocabularies, and programs, with complete systematic folk art mechanism, which has been infiltrated by the fusions and conflicts of cultural and aesthetic characteristics of high and low cultures, showing the confrontational, conflicting, complimenting, and coexisting state of existence of high and low cultures, incarnating the broad tolerance and strong vitality of Chinese culture. Fading into history, the collectively created, time-tested traditional folk art, which has embodied the aesthetic spirits, has become the essential component of traditional culture.