Cultural and artistic dissemination of traditional Chinese silk patterns in the 17th-18th centuries in the context of big data

Abstract

Abstract Silk has evolved a unique silk culture in its long history, and silk patterns have condensed the external aesthetics of silk culture and shown distinctive national characteristics. This paper firstly constructs the cultural communication network of the 17th-18th century Maritime Silk Road through big data technology and uses social network analysis to study the structural characteristics of the cultural and artistic communication network. The MPI multidimensional spatio-temporal communication evolution model is used to delineate the network’s layers further, and exploratory spatial data analysis is introduced to explore the spatio-temporal communication evolution pattern of the network. Finally, in the empirical analysis, 200 years of silk pattern data from 1600-1800 in China were selected to establish four dimensions and 11 indicators data for measurement. A comprehensive MPI multidimensional spatio-temporal propagation evolution model was derived by principal component analysis to derive the contribution of each indicator. The results show that the multidimensional cultural dissemination index of traditional silk pattern culture and art from 1600 to 1800 was 0.7461 and approximated to 0.8, and the dissemination influence was 0.2252, respectively, rising to 97%, indicating that the dissemination of silk pattern culture and art in the 17th-18th centuries was a flourishing trend. The MPI multidimensional spatial and temporal communication evolution model proposed in this paper effectively visualizes and analyzes the communication channels of silk pattern culture and art, which provides a guiding reference for the revival and communication of modern Chinese traditional culture.