A Case Study of Ningxia Paper Cuts Culture

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.343How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Yellow River culture, Ningxia papercuts, categories, spiritual culture

Abstract

The Yellow River, known as the Mother River in China, is ranked as the root of Chinese traditional culture. The Yellow River runs through Ningxia province and has great influence on its culture. Culture in Ningxia is only one little part in the grand Yellow River culture. The Yellow River provides not only living materials for the localities, but also nurtures the local culture, and influences many special cultures along the river. Paper-cutting is one of the local intangible heritage cultures, which is famous and popular for patterns cut by the common people and some inheritors. Theme of each pattern shows the Yellow River culture in its unique artistic language. This paper aims to illustrate cultural values of the papercuts in Ningxia province according to the papercut patterns’ categories, features of humanities spirit in papercut culture from the traditional and modern perspectives, exploring the spiritual life and the idea of the localities by general introduction of the papercuts in the north and south part of Ningxia. Finally, a conclusion is drawn that new innovative ways are adopted for papercut culture’ development in the new era. Data in the paper are collected by authors themselves and afforded by the intangible culture inheritors in Ningxia Province.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yinping Lv
AU  - Rui Huang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - A Case Study of Ningxia Paper Cuts Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 270
EP  - 274
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.343
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.343
ID  - Lv2020
ER  -