Traditional Chinese Opera Renaissance and Aesthetic Cultivation in the Major of Art Design

Abstract

Traditional Chinese opera is one of the gems of Chinese cultural art which Chinese people are proud of for centuries. Traditional Chinese opera once was the main form of recreation of the mass and one of the main ways of spiritual ballast. However, in the ever-accelerating pace of life, pressure in work and study is increasing. Thus, modern people prefer more relaxing and convenient forms of recreation, rather than traditional Chinese opera. The rich background and artistic conception, the slow and prolonged tune of Chinese opera are rarely paid attention and enjoyed by modern people. Chinese opera ignored for a long time enter into the vision of the public at a time when the government is making efforts to support and pay close attention to intangible cultural heritage project. An enormous quantity of types of Chinese opera and opera houses start their road of renaissance of Chinese opera culture. Cultivation and guidance of aesthetic consciousness and direction have always been the main targets throughout current art education in colleges and universities at home and abroad, especially the education system of the major of art design. Modern colleges and universities should strong senses of the mission of inheritance and responsibility for Chinese opera art with distinctive Chinese traditional culture characteristics. This thesis applies the features of the major of art design in modern colleges and universities into extracting the visual elements in Chinese opera based on Chinese opera renaissance. Ideas mainly based on forms of manifestation and applied carrier is then proposed. As a result, contribution to the enlarging of the number of audience of Chinese opera and the acceleration to the process of Chinese opera renaissance will be made by utilizing the advantages of the major of art design.