What are the folk cultural symbols on the wood carved furniture of the Tujia family?

The wood carving patterns on the Tujia furniture mainly have the following cultural symbols:

1.Image symbols.

The likeness symbol points to the object is similarity, because the visual similarity is the likeness of the image, and the image is the direct manifestation of the influence of nature, so the likeness symbol can be called the image symbol in the wood carving folk culture symbol. Image symbols need to rely on cultural norms to symbolize. Through the precipitation of image content culture, wood carving finally forms Tujia image symbols.

Tujia artisans recreated the traditional Shou script, simplifying and rounding its strokes, which eventually evolved into pictorial symbols. The longevity pattern in the flower window is a good embodiment, which conveys the idea of auspiciousness and happiness.

2.Indicator symbols.

The main function of the indicator is that the interpreter directs the interpreter's attention to the object that the interpreter wants to specify. The simplest indicator is the finger, which not only indicates the object, but also gives a hint of direction and force. The animals and plants carved by the Tujia family embody the indication function through two techniques: homophonic meaning and image meaning.

The first is the homophonic meaning: such as a bat indicating blessing; The combination of magpie and plum blossom refers to the meaning of happy eyebrows (plum) tips; The lotus flower is matched with the fish, indicating that there is more than one (lotus) year (fish). The second is the image meaning:

Peaches carved in doors and windows indicate longevity, peony flowers.

Indicates wealth, pumpkin indicates fertility and blessing. Stilted building.

The highly recognizable patterns and fixed combinations in the wood carving patterns form the indication symbols of Tujia folk etiquette.

3.Symbols.

<> statute symbol means that the interpreter needs to rely on the statute to determine the relationship between a symbol and meaning, and in the Tujia family, the content of the wood carving pattern gives symbolic meaning, which can be called a symbol. in Yongshun County.

The flower window of the main house where the elderly live in the stilted building of Naqiu Village is often engraved with the word "longevity", which means longevity and auspiciousness. From semiotics.

From the perspective of the concept, the meaning of symbolic symbols is that people express a special language, behavior, and feelings on specific things through lines, patterns, and words. The symbolic meaning of the wood carving pattern of the stilted building is closely related to the local folk customs. The Tujia people invented a complete set of folk cultural symbols, and continuously developed, enriched, and integrated them into cultural thought.

Image symbols, similar symbols point to the object is similarity, because the visual similarity is the image of the image, the image is the direct manifestation of the influence of nature, so in the wood carving folk culture symbols, the similar symbols can be called image symbols. Image symbols need to rely on cultural norms to symbolize.

There are symbols with images, there are symbols with instructions, there are some special symbols, there are symbolic symbols, and there are some symbols with very good meanings, which are relatively common.