| Along with various folk activities, including changes of climate and seasons,ceremonies and holidays and etc., paper cutting came into existence. Closely related tofolk life, paper cutting has been inherited and developed among kinds of folk festivalsand folk activities. As a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festivalitself embodies rich folk culture connotations and also contains various forms of folkactivities, one of which is paper cutting. As the visual carrier of the Dragon BoatFestival folk-custom culture, Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting is alwayspresenting itself as being in the need of the Dragon Boat Festival customs, whichshows completely in Changdao County.Unique geographical location and thick maritime culture helped in creating adistinctive Dragon Boat Festival custom culture of Changdao County. In ChangdaoCounty, Dragon Boat Festival consists of two parts, which are the "small Dragon BoatFestival" on May first in the lunar calendar and the" big Dragon Boat Festival" on Mayfifth in the lunar calendar. To exorcise evil spirit and pray for safety, local residentswill hold various folk activities. Putting up paper cuts in every family during theDragon Boat Festival season is one of the long-established special folk activities inChangdao. Its paper cutting has various themes and forms, also with rich culturalconnotations.Based on the traditional folk festival--the Dragon Boat Festival in ChangdaoCounty, this essay gives a deep research and study on local folk customs and folk papercutting about Dragon boat festival, consisting of six following parts:The first part is the preface. At the beginning, it introduces the background ofchoosing this subject. And then it summarizes the conception of the relationshipbetween folk customs and paper cutting.The second part offers an overview of northern Shandong paper cutting, which isregarded as the ancestor of Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting in ChangdaoCounty. It conducts discourses from3aspects, respectively the development andfeatures of northern Shandong paper cutting, representative paper cutting regions andthe impact of northern Shandong religious culture on its paper cutting.The third part is about the Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting in Changdao County, Yantai City, which is the focus of this article. Based on deep research on localsand bibliography, it discusses respectively from following aspects in detail, includingCounty Dragon Boat Festival customs in Changdao county, the origin, developingenvironment and present situation of Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting and thestyles and themes of the Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting.The fourth part elaborates the folk activities of Dragon Boat Festival in ChangdaoCounty in classification.The fifth part talks about the inheritance and protection of Dragon Boat Festivalfolk paper cutting in Changdao County. Through discussing the status quo of folkpaper cutting in Changdao County, it analyzes and concludes the reasons and conductsdiscourses on the way of inheritance, inheritors and the protection of the Dragon BoatFestival paper cutting in Changdao County in order to raise awareness of the public onthe importance of the Dragon Boat Festival folk paper cutting.The sixth part is the conclusion, giving a brief summary on the content of thisessay. |
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