Shaanxi East Road Shadow Play Color Study

The shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province serves for local operas such as Wan Wan Qiang,Huayin Laoqiang and have continued to prosper with the growth of local opera art in China.The shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province has continued to communicate and integrate with other local art forms,and developed with the art of shadow play in the surrounding areas,forming a folk art form with stylized characteristics.From the perspective of color theory,The shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province embodies the use rules of Chinese traditional color,and confirms the discipline concept of Western color science since the 16 th and 17 th centuries.In the current era,the color use rules contained in shadow play still meet the needs of social development and market.The process of "practice-theory-re-practice" is not only a successful case of color application in shadow play of Shaanxi East Road,but also the result of the deepening research on color science of various ethnic groups.The color of The shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province started from "plain paper carving " to "a few colors",and then gradually used colors to reflect the characters' personality,emotions,sorrows and joys.This is a process in which color gradually adapts to and stabilizes in the service of shadow plays.It is also a process of transforming the natural attribute of color into social attribute.This process makes the puppet more flexible in the eyes of the audience,the performance plot is more reasonable,and the shadow play in educating and passing down the generations is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.The existence of the shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province refines the life elements of the local people,contains a lot of local characteristics,and expresses the emotional sustenance of the local people through the form of opera,and expresses the people's expectation for a better life.This paper selects more than 100 shadow puppets of the eastern part of Shaanxi province as the physical basis,mainly based on the color science research method,supplemented by the relevant theories of optics,iconology,fine arts,folklore and other disciplines,to study the color of Shaanxi East Road shadow play.In the process of research,one is to start with the lighting of shadow puppets,and consider the influence of light on the color presentation of shadow puppets;the other is to learn from the modeling and color of Jinnan shadow play,Yuxi shadow play and Longdong shadow play to analyze the mutual influence between the color of Shaanxi East Road Shadow Puppet and the surrounding shadow puppet color;the third is to investigate the local grotto statues,murals,social fire facial masks in Shaanxi,and compare various art forms in the process of development,the rules of color use of various art forms are explored and compared;The fourth is,after a comparative investigation of various carriers of color use,the color folk custom contained in the color use of Shaanxi East Road shadow puppet is extracted;finally,the application of Shaanxi East Road shadow play color at present is explored,such as the "Nezha Naohai" airport mural and the animation design of "The Monkey King".The appearance of Shadow provides a new carrier for color,and the development and evolution of color in Shadow promote the spread of shadow play.The colour application of The shadow in The eastern part of Shaanxi province is not only the understanding and application of the mature color theory system before the shadow puppet production,but also the color innovation based on shadow play by craftsmen,after the shadow puppet production and development is mature.The color using method,from mouth to mouth,of shadow puppet craftsmen,color science,and even modern natural science,have a certain significance of promoting human understanding of the world and transforming the world.