Fully Understand the Cultural Context of Traditional Auspicious Patterns Commonly Used in China

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese traditions; auspicious patterns; Cultural contexts; Suitable designs

Abstract

This paper focuses on how to fully understand the cultural context of common Chinese auspicious patterns for the reason that a comprehensive understanding of them is the basis for designers and other persons to apply them accurately and appropriately. This paper develops in sequences of discovering the problem — analyzing the problem — solving the problem — verifying the problem-solving methods — obtaining the result. The first step is to raise the following questions: How to comprehensively understand commonly used auspicious patterns? What are the contents of cultural contexts of auspicious patterns? And then having an adequate understanding of their cultural contexts by summarizing the analysis of the following six aspects of auspicious patterns: Pattern contents, major elements, create methods, connotations applications and expression forms. Thirdly, a questionnaire is used to verify whether it is feasible to understand the cultural context through the analysis of these aspects above. And the data of the questionnaire show it’s available. This paper sampled and analyzed about 30 commonly used auspicious patterns from three categories of Chinese auspicious patterns, and uses mixed analysis method combining qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. It adopts quantitative analysis method to analyze each auspicious pattern, and adopts quantitative analysis method to verify the conclusion of the questionnaire survey.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jing Sun
AU  - Arba’iyah Bt Ab. Aziz
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Fully Understand the Cultural Context of Traditional Auspicious Patterns Commonly Used in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 874
EP  - 882
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_111
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_111
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