The ideological connotation of traditional handicrafts is very rich, it is difficult to explain in a word. But fundamentally speaking, it is integrated with the traditional Chinese culture's respectful hierarchical concept, the religious thought of respecting the ancestors and ancestors, the cosmic thinking induced by heaven and man, the inheritance consciousness that never forgets the root, and the folk tradition of warding off evil spirit of. However, social changes often force the formal level of traditional handicrafts to be separated from the spiritual qualities, or to inject new ideological connotations into old forms, or to express old ideas in new forms.
Nothing is more typical of the new connotation of the old form than the Imperial Palace in Beijing from the royal forbidden garden to the museum, and the Jiangnan garden from the private garden to the people's park. In addition, it is common for us to decorate with Peking opera masks and Nuo opera masks. What role or god they are is not important, what is important is to embody the charm and style of Chinese national culture.
The modern man Peiyu is just for auspiciousness, who remembers Confucius's teaching about the gentleman surpassing jade? The so-called combination of old connotation and new form refers to the use of modern techniques to reflect ancient concepts and ideas. Another example is that the Yin and Yang Five Elements theory is a very ancient concept of the universe. In traditional crafts, the four gods representing the four directions are the most intuitive reflection of this concept. The series of posters of the "Art and Science" seminar in 2001, "Golden Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth" (see "Decoration", 2001, Issue 4, Cover 2), used a brand-new visual image to express the concept of five elements and five colors. The sculpture "The Way of Things" created by Li Zhengdao (see "Decoration", 2001, color page 4) is a modern work with the meaning of "yin and yang embracing each other".