YongZhou ZhiMa Art

Paper horse known as the \From a process point of view , it is woodblock printing , or combination of hand- drawn by , and therefore belongs to a kind of Chinese folk art prints . As part of China 's intangible cultural heritage , the paper horse once widespread in the Chinese folk , the day-to-day activities of civil life , and also to bring some comfort to the hearts of the people , people send Italy life of devotion and hope . On Yongzhou paper horse , as the local varieties in the art of paper horses , although born in a unique cultural soil Han Yao , but because the edge remote , backward civilization , had not been caused by the attention it deserves . Attracted the attention of scholars until the 1990s , Yongzhou paper horses in a folklore expedition in Jiangyong County , Hunan Province , a large number of discovered before . This paper intends to Yongzhou paper horses as a case study - to study the value of its folk culture , folk life function , its conditions of existence , its artistic characteristics . Put it in a living study in the context of the concept of \On this basis , further analysis of present situation and development prospects of survival of Yongzhou paper horse , and put forward their point of view in order to better protect and rescue this folk art .