Veiled Beauty - Chinese Folk Art Culture

Author: Hu Ping
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Chinese needlecraft holds significant importance in shaping the character of the entire Chinese culture. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural functions, humanistic connotations, cultural types, and artistic characteristics of needlecraft. The functional theory highlights the feature of needlecraft as "one product with multiple functions"; the cultural theory points out the symbolic nature of needlecraft and proposes the concept of "needlecraft cultural complex"; the typological theory introduces the concept of "interest-based cultural circle"; and the artistic theory analyzes that the spiritual creative motivation of needlecraft as an art lies in "simple goodness" and "aesthetically pleasing beauty," pointing out that needlecraft art is "poetic imagery," and discusses the features of needlecraft's elegant, subtle, and graceful feminine temperament. This book attempts to construct a narrative style for the theory of needlecraft culture using the concepts and methods of cultural anthropology, presenting and reinforcing this theoretical expression through field surveys and literature analysis, supplemented by numerous authentic and vivid needlecraft images and field footage.