Analysis Of The Cause Of Aesthetic Transmutation Of Manchu Pattern Under Urban Context

Manchu is one of the most important part of China, which is a country of various peoples with a long history. Manchu fortune pattern is a major carrier of psychology of Manchu people. In the meantime, it is also a type of Chinese national art forms which can be ignored. This dissertation chooses Manchu fortune pattern, which is widely liked by normal people and also a symbol of popular culture, as a representative to discuss its vital cultural gene and aesthetic value in both ethnic and folk culture. This discussion is supposed to present the transmutation of the aesthetic particularity and ethnic psychology under modern urban cultural context, which aims to provide some reference for the heritage of ethnic art and some theory reference of the confusion of aesthetic of urban group of people. As such, Manchu fortune pattern can be used better, more exactly and more healthily for people’s life.The whole body of this dissertation is divided in for sections. The first section is introduction, which illustrates the reason for choosing this thesis, the meaning of it, research thinking and methods. In the meantime, this section explains the major concepts and references mentioned throughout the whole dissertation.The second section is deeply researches and concluded the transmutation of the aesthetic particularity and the trend of the development of Manchu fortune patterns. Through the research and argument about the variety materials of bibliography, this essay has analyzed three different types of Manchu fortune patterns. In that case, current situation of Manchu patterns in modern context is concluded. And five different change trends have been presented in the dissertation. The third section is the focus of the whole dissertation. Based on the research of aesthetic particularity of Manchu fortune patterns and its changing trend, this part illustrates the deep cause of this changing process. This part discusses this issue from two points of view. On the one hand, it discusses the context of the development of urban culture and modern lifestyle. On the other hand, it presents the reducing ethnic self-conscious and the collective unconsciousness during the development of urban culture. As a matter of fact, this part is trying to explore the cause of the changing of Manchu aesthetic particularity both objectively and subjectively. Based on this discussion, the essay presents the modern heritage of considering ethnic arts and reconsiders the urban inspiration of the aesthetic problems of modern people.Through the analyses in the whole essay, conclusions can be got as followed: 1) The necessity of logic of urban culture development leading to the change of aesthetic particularity of Manchu patterns.2) The ethnic character and culture are the elementary power of the development of ethnic arts under modern urban context.3) The core cause of the influence on the aesthetic particularity of Manchu patterns is the collective unconsciousness and ethnic self-consciousness.4) The analysis of cause of the changing of aesthetic of Manchu fortune patterns has come to the conclusion, which can provide some reasonable thinking and valuable inspiration for heritage of ethnic arts and aesthetic difficulties.