Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings: cultural ecology and representation in the context of social change in China

Abstract

Research Topic: Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings: cultural ecology and representation in the context of social change in China. Research Methods:This research used qualitative research methods. Methods of information collection: This research adopted two methods ofinformation collection: Fieldwork and Literature Research. In theresearch process, the thesis adopted two information collection methods fieldworkand Literature Research to complete information collection. Purpose of the Research as follows:

1 To study the social and historical background of peasant life painting of Dong nationality in Sanjiang.

2 To study and analyze the correlation between Sanjiang cultural ecology and Sanjiang Dong peasant life painting in Sanjiang.

3 To study and analyze the representation of dong peasant life painting in Sanjiang.

4 To analysis of the cultural ecology and representation of Dong peasants 'life paintings in Sanjiang through the "2023 Guangxi peasant's Life Painting Exhibition".

The Socio-Historical Background of Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings.The culture formed by the ecology of Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County and the political, social, historical and economic aspects of the country in all periods have influenced Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings. This led to the formation of three art types with different styles of art in Sanjiang Dong peasant life painting in three periods respectively.

The association between the ecology of Sanjiang and peasant paintings is interpreted through Cultural Ecology. The association between the cultural ecology of Sanjiang and Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings in three periods: from the founding of New China to the pre-Reform and Opening-up period, from the beginning of the Reform period to the 21st century, and from the 21st century to the present day. From the perspective of the creators of peasant life paintings, the real life of Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings is influenced by different factors such as politics, counsellors, and creators in different periods, and therefore, three different artistic styles, namely, "Old Chinese Painting", "Transplantation", and "Synthesis", are formed. "Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings of Life painting of three different artistic styles.Analyse the process by which real life becomes peasant life paintings.

Representation enables the circulation of ideas and meaning in the whole society, and there are two levels of representation, one is symbol and the other is expression. Through the first level, we can interpret what kind of life scenes or cultures the painters of Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings chose as the representation of their whole culture? Through the second level, to whom does the artist paint Sanjiang Dong peasant life painting? What do they want to express? By analysing three schools of Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings in three periods, in different periods, Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings represent different backgrounds of the times. In the absence of a drastic change in the natural environment, the relationship between people and society, and between people and nature, was transformed, and therefore the culture was transformed as well. Study what kind of ecology and culture Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings specifically represent.

The concepts of the cultural ecology and the representation are used to interpret the Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings in the 2023 Guangxi Peasant Life Paintings Exhibition.The society, economy and politics around 2023 have an impact on the artistic characteristics of peasant life paintings. Peasant life painting can represent the background of the era, the era is different, the relationship between human and nature, human and society has been transformed, and the culture has been transformed.

The conclusion of this paper is that three different styles of Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings are formed by interpreting Sanjiang Dong peasant life paintings through the concepts of the cultural ecology and the representation, and by looking at the cultural ecology of Sanjiang Dong from the viewpoint of the creators of peasant life paintings. The peasant life painting can represent the background of the times, the times are different, the relationship between man and nature, man and society has been transformed, and the culture has also been transformed.

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