Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The article considers the phenomenon ofChinese ornamental art, called “jianzhi”. Well-being in symbols of this art, Chinese paper-cutting, comes from ornamental figures, and they, in turn, reflect national mythological and religious ideas, life style and reality. It is a universal language of national mentality. Ancient Chinese with special attitude created paper compositions, because they believedthat it is an amulet. That’s why their semantics is so different and deep to take the paper-cutting works, also famous as “paper-lace” as national pride, which continue its development nowadays.All this allows claiming that this unique type of folk art, continuing the active development in various forms in the modern world, became recognizable "logo" of China.
Source: ASJ
Authors: N.V. Martynova, D.R. Slipeckaya
Institution: Pacific National University
Language: English
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3038071773