从“瓜娃打肚子”看泥塑玩具的传承与发展

Study the Inheritance and Develpment of Clay Sculpture from the Toy Named “Little Child Beats His Stomach”

"瓜娃打肚子"是甘肃成县竹篮寨泥塑玩具的品种之一,它造型夸张,色彩艳丽,声音清脆悦耳,既美观,又有趣,材料环保,是民间流传下来的艺术瑰宝。随着现代社会经济发展水平的提高,民间泥塑玩具逐渐淡出人们的视野,取而代之的是现代科技的产物——塑料、金属玩具,它因结构复杂,声光电一体化,结实耐用等优点,深受儿童青睐。如何在现代玩具风行的情况下,让泥塑玩具继续担当儿童认识世界,启迪智慧的重任,使传统文化传承有序,在现代化社会中创新发展,是我们亟待研究的课题。

That 'Little child beats his stomach' is a kind of clay sculpture toys in Zhulan village Chengxian, Gansu province. It not only has exaggerate and colorful expression, but clear and sweet sound when people knock on it gently. It looks beautiful and interesting, and made in environmental materials, so it is our folk art gem which has been inherited. But with modern economic improvement, children prefer to durable plastic and metal toys with electronic sounds and colorful lights and complicated structure instead of folk clay sculpture. How to make clay sculpture fulfill its duty to help children to get to known this world better and become cleverer is an urgent study topic nowadays.