To address the needs for the inheritance and innovation of the shadow puppet intangible cultural heritage in the Tianjin region, the work aims to employ semiotic analysis to explore the design approach for a Tianjin-style shadow puppet pattern library with the focus on its graphic symbol system and compositional rules and propose a digitally-readable primitive library for scholars and shadow puppet artisans. Based on the semiotic system of Tianjin-style shadow puppets, the approach to symbolic analysis was highlighted, the meanings of typical patterns were extracted, the digital imaging systems were used for storage, and the complete case studies of Tianjin-style shadow puppet figures were provided. Thus, the feasibility of integrating traditional inheritance with innovative design was explored. By establishing a symbolic analysis approach for Tianjin-style shadow puppet patterns, it is demonstrated that the semantic model of symbols can achieve an accurate mapping from visual elements to cultural connotations. This effectively generates patterns amenable to analysis within both traditional aesthetics and contemporary culture, provides expandable data resources for large language model training, and offers exploratory approaches and support for the innovative design of Tianjin-style shadow puppets.
Key words
Tianjin-style shadow puppetry /
visual elements /
symbolic analysis /
semantic extraction
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