Cultural Activation: A Study of the Impact of the Image of Hutongs Shaped by Yao-Chinese Folktales on the Transformation of Cultural Spaces in Old Town Areas

Abstract

This paper takes the transformation of the image of cultural space in the old city as the starting point, and starts from the perspective of “Beijing Hutong” in animation art, based on the background of the existing research on animation in many fields, to seize the innovation point of new art to help cultural transformation. This paper focuses on the artistic presentation and logical conception of the work “The Kiosk” in the widely acclaimed Chinese animation ” Yao-Chinese Folktales “, and further analyzes the effect of “Beijing Hutong” on enhancing residents’ cultural identity and promoting socially virtuous construction and transformation of cultural space in the old city with the aid of artistic creation. This paper adopts a questionnaire survey to investigate whether the scenes of hutong life have enhanced the cultural confidence of the residents and to analyze the unique artistic form and creation mechanism of the work “The Kiosk”.