A Study of Folk Aesthetic Culture of Minnan Ancestral Hall in the Context

of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

QINJIE LIU*, KE ZHANG

Krirk University

Bangkok, 10700

THAILAND

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

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.

Key-Words: - Big data, Internet of things, Minnan ancestral halls, folk aesthetic culture

Received: May 19, 2022. Revised: August 21, 2023. Accepted: September 23, 2023. Available online: October 25, 2023.

causing a dramatic increase in the scale of data, thus

entering the era of Big data. The era of Big data has

made people realize the preciousness of data, and how

to excavate useful information from the massive data

has become an urgent problem to be solved. Artificial

continuously expand its knowledge base, and

eventually be able to solve some problems that human

beings cannot solve. The application model of Big data

and AI in various industries is shown in Figure 1. For

example, data is acquired and a model is set to

optimize the knowledge base of AI and improve the

learning ability. If a specific problem is required to be

solved, certain parameters should be set in conjunction

with the problem itself for the final solution, [1], [2].

the same family name gathered in an area 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. Southern

Fujian is one of the regions with the largest number of

temples and ancestral halls in China. Because of its

special geographical location, the ancestral halls in

traditional Chinese architectural aesthetics. The

architecture of ancestral halls in the southern Fujian

region takes the wooden frame as the central structure

of ancestral halls, and the arrangement of the main

structures strictly follows the characteristics of

symmetry, balance, and coordination of proportions.

They abandoned the traditional concept of using the

external majestic building as a symbol of the ancestral

hall and adopted the idea of turning spatial culture into

temporal culture, building courtyards in single rooms

and thus constructing a large number of building

groups, forming an uneven, high-low architectural

plane. Most of the ancestral hall buildings in southern

is the folk shape. In the early days, due to strong

religious beliefs, ancestral halls were one of the places

of popular activities, and the various architectural

shapes of ancestral halls also left a deep impression on

the people and influenced the development of their

aesthetic consciousness. In the process of historical

iteration and development, the formation of folk

aesthetic consciousness is influenced by a variety of

factors, but due to the stability and inheritance of the

development of folk aesthetic art. Nowadays, a stable

historical inheritance, and stability of the formation

process, while folk aesthetic consciousness mostly

comes from folk production practices and has

traceability, [5].

literature are as follows: (1) From the perspective of

folk aesthetic culture, this paper makes an in-depth

analysis of the aesthetic characteristics of ancestral

Fujian, extracts representative aesthetic features, and

explores the relationship between aesthetic elements

and aesthetic consciousness through an artificial

intelligence decision-making model. This is an

innovative research method, and the existing literature

uses more traditional literature review, case analysis,

questionnaire survey, and other methods.

throughout the year, high air humidity, and is located

on the coast and often receives typhoon disturbances.

To avoid building decay and to achieve the effect of

ventilation and moisture prevention, the ancestral halls

in southern Fujian adopt a “square and whole” layout,

so that the small doors in the two compartments can be

ventilated, as well as the halls in the front and rear

directions. This layout can provide a good ventilation

environment for the ancestral halls in southern Fujian

and ensure the service life of the buildings, [6], [7].

applies to temples and ancestral halls, while the latter

applies to daily dwellings, etc. Ancestral halls are areas

where people worship incense, so the former is

generally used to avoid accidents such as fires, while

Minnan ancestral halls are built with the sitting beam

frame because of its aesthetic elements. The

sitting-beam construction can make a sense of

unevenness, [8], [9].

structure, form, color, and other characteristics of

ancestral temple is a microcosm of the history of a

family, recording the family's inheritance, rise and fall,

origin, and other stories, [10]. This paper analyzes the

two types of earth buildings in southern Fujian and

Hakka earth buildings and compares and distinguishes

them from the aspects of function, type, and structure.

The article points out that Minnan Tulou and Hakka

Tulou are collective houses built with rammed earth

and wood, but there are obvious differences in shape,

scale, layout, and decoration. The article also discusses

the protection and restoration of earth buildings, [11].

This paper introduces the characteristics and style of

Minnan Tulou buildings, as well as their status and

style of stone carving today is lapidary relief, which is

development of a family and is a building with

monumental and inherited significance. Ancestral

halls hold the sentiment of thoughts, and they are often

built by villagers on their initiative because they are a

remembrance of their ancestors, at the same time, they

allow wanderers in foreign countries to remember their

ancestors and hold the pain of homesickness. Ancestral

halls are also the prosperity and development of a

family. Ancestral halls arrange the ancestors in the

family according to the traditional Chinese order of

eldest and youngest, and branch the ancestral halls

according to the proximity of blood, and eldest and

youngest respect and blood relationships are the core

promoted by the Chinese people. Every child is taught

from childhood to respect his or her teachers, and the

shrine is also a form of filial piety.

people were obtained by means of questionnaire

of the questionnaire survey are shown in Table 1, [16],

researchers conducted a reliability analysis and

validity analysis of the questionnaire. Section 3.3

introduces the reliability and validity analysis methods

and results of the questionnaire survey.

questionnaire is an important guarantee of the

original variables, and four common factors were

extracted, named Factor 1, Factor 2, Factor 3, and

Factor 4. Before rotation, the eigenvalues of these four

factors are 3.196,1.287,2.898 and 2.999, respectively,

indicating that the first factor contains the most

information and the second factor contains the least

information. The variance interpretation rates of these

four factors are 19.62 %, 9.64 %, 10.90 %, and 8.97 %,

respectively, indicating that the first factor can explain

19.62 % of the variance of the original variable, the

second factor can explain 9.64 % of the variance of the

original variable, and so on.

the most information and the second factor contains

the least information. The variance interpretation rates

of these four factors were 86.89, respectively.

the credibility of the questionnaire survey is when the

reliability result is between 0.8 and 1, which means

that the questionnaire has good credibility. As shown

in Table 3, the reliability coefficient of this experiment

is 0.802, which is between 0.8 and 1 and has a high

reliability. From Table 2, it can be seen that after

rotation processing, both the eigenvalue, difference

interpretation rate and cumulative variance

interpretation rate showed a high degree of

aesthetic consciousness of the people in Minnan. The

questionnaire data obtained from 1000 respondents

through questionnaire survey are as follows.

Table 4. Aesthetic culture of Minnan residents

questions on aesthetic feeling, aesthetic orientation,

aesthetic experience, and aesthetic concept, each with

through Big data and artificial intelligence technology.

The data in the information database involved several

dimensions, and we analyzed the data of Minnan

Ancestral Hall in the database through Big data and

artificial intelligence technology and conducted cluster

analysis to select representative dimensions for the

next experiment. As the data for the experimental

investigation. The first category is the color dimension,

this part of the data is the color parameters and

materials used in various parts of Minnan architecture

including the main building and the small decorations.

The second part is the material dimension, which is the

material used in each part of Minnan architecture,

including the cultural connotation represented by each

part of the Minnan ancestral hall including the

extremely decorative items. Through the analysis and

decision-making ability of Big data and artificial

intelligence, we initially screened out several

representative dimensions. I use data mining

technology to analyze the factors that affect the

characteristics of temples in southern Fujian. Firstly, I

collected temple data in southern Fujian, including

architectural style, sacrificial objects, historical

artificial intelligence-related technologies, and its core

steps are divided into the following five steps.

data from the questionnaire survey on the aesthetic

culture of Minnan residents and the standardization of

the four dimensions of data derived from the cluster

analysis of, respectively, the data related to Minnan

ancestral halls.

(1)

the normalized results in Equation (1).

(2)

of the results of different dimensions derived from the

according to the operation result of formula c1 for

further operation.

(4)

data to make relevant analyses and decisions using Big

data and artificial intelligence technology. We found

that what temperature of Minnan ancestral halls affects

the folk aesthetic consciousness of Minnan residents in

different aspects. In terms of the dimension of color,

Minnan residents tend to use relatively bright colors to

decorate their houses, which is consistent with the fact

that Minnan's ancestral halls tend to use colors such as

red and black. In terms of shape, the architectural style

of Minnan ancestral halls also influenced the

development of folk aesthetic consciousness is echoed

by the core values of blood and clan ties transmitted by

the Minnan ancestral halls left, [17], [18], [19].

3.3.2 Model Significance

The aesthetic dimensions of Minnan ancestral halls in

this study and the relevant data derived from the

questionnaire survey were planned and analyzed

according to artificial intelligence and Big data

analysis techniques. The selection of the model will

calculation model in the article was ultimately

selected.

3.3.3 Technical Value

Vigorously promoting the development of national

aesthetic culture has been an important measure for

China to implement cultural strategies in recent years.

It has a very important impact on promoting national

characteristics of Minnan ancestral halls as the

research object, taking into account the combination of

national aesthetics and regional characteristics.

Secondly, the selected model is more optimized. In the

process of selecting the model, this study not only fully

draws on the advantages of existing research results,

but we also used a comparative calculation method to

select a calculation model that is more suitable for this

study. This enables this study to better reflect the

evolution of cultural aesthetic characteristics in the

context of Big data and artificial intelligence.

The influence of Minnan's ancestral halls on folk

Fig. 3: The influence of Minnan ancestral halls on folk

aesthetics

Architectural aesthetics is a region's experience of the

overall construction of a building and the shape and

color matching of each component of a building after a

long period of time and is influenced by many factors.

such as personal emotions, religious beliefs, and

architecture embodied in Minnan ancestral halls

influence the development of Minnan residents'

aesthetic consciousness from several angles, and the

specific proportion of their influence is shown in

Figure 4. From Figure 4, it can be seen that the

architectural characteristics of Minnan ancestral halls

influence aesthetic consciousness in many ways,

specifically, the proportion of influence of

architectural shape is the largest, followed by cultural

connotation. However, this experiment only selected

dimensions such as size, color, shape, material, and

culture for the study, ignoring some factors that have a

smaller proportion of influence, [20], [21].

and are a very important part of a family’s heritage,

for analysis. The various aesthetic features of the

obtained by means of 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 the

two 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

echoed by the core values of blood and clan ties

transmitted by the Minnan ancestral halls left. Finally,

the influence of the southern Fujian ancestral hall on

folk aesthetics is summarized as :(1) The influence of

the southern Fujian Ancestral Hall on architectural

aesthetics in southern Fujian. A large number of

ancestral halls in southern Fujian adopt single-fall and

double-fall architectural structures, which can still be

seen everywhere in southern Fujian. (2) The influence

of ancestral halls in southern Fujian on the humanistic

goal of education. (3) The influence of ancestral hall in

southern Fujian on aesthetic emotion in southern

Fujian. The main color of many rural buildings in

southern Fujian is highly similar to that of their

ancestral halls, with red or black as the main color.

a kind of traditional architecture but also a kind of

aesthetic consciousness and cultural characteristics in

southern Fujian. We hope that this paper will stimulate

more discussions and explorations on Southern Min

ancestral hall architecture and Southern Min folk

aesthetic consciousness.