Research On The Visual Symbols Of Shanxi Steamed Flower Art

According to historical records,the earliest relevant textual materials of steamed flour art were in the Han Dynasty.After a long history of more than 1,000 years,this folk art has become an integral part of traditional Chinese folk culture and art.The development of the steamed flour in Shanxi has changed from the original exchange of gifts and relationships in the circle of relatives and friends to the emergence of multiple business models such as enterprises and small family workshops,which not only improved the lives of craftsmen and injected new life into the development of the local economy vitality.As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization,Shanxi contains rich cultural history and art collections.Steamed flour art has experienced a history of more than a thousand years.It is a typical representative of Shanxi folk culture and art.It also plays an important role in Jin culture.As a representative of Shanxi folk art,the steamed flour art is the external expression of the spiritual culture and moral traditions of the Shanxi people.It is an art that materializes the folk cultural traditions and aesthetics.Shanxi steamed flour art plays an important role in various age festivals and life etiquette.The mysterious "symbols" produced over a long period of time have rich folk cultural connotations and folk customs.The derivative design practice of the characteristic visual symbols of Shanxi steamed flour art will not only help to promote the inheritance and development of folk culture and art,better disseminate steamed flour this intangible cultural heritage,but also inject new vitality and vitality into modern design and enhance cultural connotation.Based on consulting domestic and foreign literature,relevant books and design practices,this thesis uses semiotic theory to study the visual symbols of Shanxi steamed flour and the deep folklore behind it.The research on the visual symbols of steamed flour in Shanxi from the direction of modern art and semiotic theory can expand the research and application fields of semiotics and visual art.By analyzing and extracting the art symbols of steamed flour,the decorative patterns of flowers and plants in steamed flour are designed and applied to the design of modern diversified red envelopes.The main contents of this paper are as follows:First,collect and analyze the research status of Shanxi steamed flour art and visual symbol theory at home and abroad,to provide a certain theoretical basis and research methods for this research.Second,deeply study the origin and development of the folk steamed flour art,explore the differences in the shape,style,and color of the steamed flour art in north and south Shanxi,and then analyze the characteristics of steamed flour art visual symbols and deep cultural implications.Third,analyze the vocabulary and semantics of Shanxi steamed flour visual symbols in depth,and collects representative steamed flour works according to the principle of typicality,extracts highly recognizable visual symbols,and establishes a visual symbol semantic table and typical color ratio table.Fourth,analyze the rules of the formation of the visual symbols of Shanxi steamed flour,and make a deep understanding of the selection and composition of the symbols from the perspective of the textual symbols of Shanxi steamed flour.Using the deduction rules of shape grammar,the visual symbols of steamed flour are broken up,reconstructed and deduced,so as to derive more visual symbols of steamed flour.Fifth,take the festival gift red envelope design as a case,carry on the derivative design of Shanxi steamed flour visual symbol in modern design,inherits and develops the folk culture of steamed flour,and designs modern products with more cultural connotation.Studying the visual symbols of Shanxi steamed flour art expands the field of semiotics in the study of folk culture,helps to construct the visual symbol system of steamed flour art patterns,and also has a certain reference for the national development of modern art design.The derivative design of the highly recognizable visual symbol of steamed flour is conducive to increasing the public's awareness of steamed flour,thereby promotes and protects the ancient intangible cultural heritage of the steamed flour art in Shanxi.