Artistic Study On Neiqiu Zhima

Neiqiu Zhima has become one of the wonderful works of folk art because of its worship to nature, its simple and special artistic modeling and technique. And because of its originality, it deserves the title of"the living fossil of Chinese woodcut", and has become the valuable cultural heritage of Chinese nation.The New Year pictures of Neiqiu are produced under the guidance of animalism. People there use different forms of pictures to present the images they worship by their own imagination. This is a kind of voluntary folk religion and belief activity, which reflects the worship and belief to nature, animals, plants and other things that have a close relation with peoples'daily life, which also reflects the desire and expectation of the public for a better life in those days.The main content of Neiqiu Zhima is the worship to nature. In the minds of people, everything has become the gods, including mountains, the earth, etc. In fact, this kind of worship is the oriental peculiar philosophy of the harmony of man and nature. The models of Neiqiu Zhima are characterized of being simple and being unsophisticated with certain abstractive and mysterious elements. With their unique local features, the models are the languages of this original and popular art.There's a big difference between Neiqiu Zhima and the other traditional Chinese Zhima representing by Yangliuqing Zhima. Because of the shorter time for studying on Neiqiu Zhima within the academic circle, people have little knowledge of it. However, the art of Neiqiu Zhima, with a simple and primitive farming background, has a close relation with so many fields such as anthropology, folklore, art theory. Therefore, this kind of art deserves investigation and study.To learn about Neiqiu Zhima is to learn about a kind of symbol, a kind of spiritual ballast. That also means people have entered a peaceful world with the harmony between man and nature.