Insight into the "Mother River"--A Practitioner Walking on the Folk Road
Dong Yongjun
Abstract: Qiao Xiaoguang is a pioneer in Chinese intangible cultural heritage education and a watcher of folk art. He upholds the practical spirit of "seeking knowledge by earnest practice". He retrieves the origin of the "Mother River" himself, and expresses his aesthetics in his aircrafts. He made China known to the world from the Chinese folk people. Deeply rooted in the rural area, his goal in art and sence of life is pursued continuously. This paper takes Qiao Xiaoguang's paper cutting as a clue, discussing from the aspects of folk-art ideological context, intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance, artistic observation of the rural female and his localized narrative artistic creation. It also unfolds Qiao Xiaoguang's efforts in his"China Experience" creation and tells Chinese stories to the world with his unique paper-cutting.
Key words:Qiao Xiaoguang; folk arts; intangible cultural heritage;China Experience
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