Shanghai Xijiao Peasant Paintings—Generate A Culture Of Memory

Originated in the 1980s in the western suburbs of Shanghai farmers’ paintings because of its unique techniques, high artistic level, rich content, unique in the Chinese peasant paintings, it is a unique type of Chinese peasant paintings. Shanghai Xijiao peasant painting, development, interruption, an important part of rehabilitation, and the development of forms of non-heritage protection under all this research.As the identity of the local population in the western suburbs of memory, west of peasant painting is an important object of the people we look at the background of the spiritual life of the town. In this paper, the development of the western suburbs of peasant paintings, the decline and revival of history as a base material, the traditional construction and inventive ideas, through cultural memory theory, from the micro-individual figurative, analyzes the western suburbs of this cultural phenomenon peasant paintings political background, psychosocial and other factors behind the cultural memory, showing the mechanical forces govern the interaction between cultural phenomenon behind interleaved between. At the same time how people in the western suburbs of urbanization and non-heritage protection of dual background, how to retain nostalgia, memories of how to keep its identity, through the western suburbs of peasant painting study, in fact, for this region of rapid urbanization process The local people grasp the spiritual world, to reach for a cultural symbol of understanding, so as to better protect the western suburbs of peasant paintings, heritage building blocks, memories and emotions concluded that cultural heritage is a source of power.