A Study of Folk Aesthetic Culture of Minnan Ancestral Hall in the Context of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Liu Qinjie , Zhang Ke 
Published: January 2024

In the past, people with the same family name gathered in a region were made into a family, and each family had its family temple for worshipping ancestors and remembering their forefathers, and such family temples with special significance were called ancestral halls. The southern Min region has experienced more hardships compared to the northern region, so it pays more attention to the family and places an important place on the transmission of blood ties. The values of people are subtly changed in this environment, and through the inculcation of generations, the people of southern Fujian internalized the values inherited from this architecture of ancestral halls into their aesthetic consciousness. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of technological development on the evolution of regional aesthetic characteristics in the context of Big data and Artificial intelligence, starting from the folk aesthetic culture of Minnan ancestral halls. The architecture of Minnan ancestral halls is characterized by the adaptation of ancestral hall architecture to the climate of Southern Fujian, the unique architectural framework of ancestral halls, the use of vibrant colors in Minnan ancestral halls, and the Minnan ancestral halls. The art of stone carving and aesthetic literacy are two major aesthetic features of Minnan's ancestral halls. The number of Minnan ancestral halls is huge, and to analyze their aesthetic characteristics it is necessary to use the ability of Big data storage to analyze massive data and to extract some representative ancestral hall buildings from the database of Minnan ancestral halls for analysis. The various aesthetic features of the database are clustered and analyzed through Big data analysis technology to summarize the representative aesthetic features of Minnan ancestral halls. At the same time, some people in the Minnan area were selected as the research subjects, and the data related to the folk aesthetic consciousness of the people were obtained using a questionnaire survey, and then the "aesthetic elements" and "aesthetic consciousness" were input into the artificial intelligence training model by combining Big data and Artificial intelligence technology. The relationship between elements is explored through artificial intelligence decision-making. Finally, this conclusion is illustrated in four dimensions. From the dimension of color, the residents of Minnan mostly use relatively bright colors to decorate their houses, which is consistent with the use of red and black colors in Minnan's ancestral halls. In terms of shape, the architectural style of Minnan ancestral halls also influenced the development of later buildings, some of which evolved from Minnan ancestral halls as prototypes. In terms of materials, the Minnan ancestral halls were built with a combination of wood and stone, while later generations only increased the proportion of stone. In terms of culture, the development of folk aesthetic consciousness is echoed by the core values of blood and clan ties transmitted by the Minnan ancestral halls left.