山西面塑艺术是山西民间文化的映射和视觉表达，它与民间民俗生活息息相关，是人们美好期望的承载物。本文阐述了面塑艺术的概念、价值，以及与民俗文化的关系。总结并介绍了面塑艺术的艺术价值、艺术特点及面塑艺术的寓意包涵，对其传承方式与传播环境进行分析。在现代文明高速发展的今天，面塑艺术渐渐淡出生活舞台的当下，笔者提出发展建议，认为应当加强对面塑艺术的学术研究;加强面塑美术与市场的联系;加强面塑艺术传承的建设;借鉴其他艺术形式发展的模式。

ShanXi Dough Sculpture is the Shanxi folk culture mapping and the visual expression, it is closely linked with the folk custom life, is load bearing which the people happily expected. This article elaborated the Dough Sculpture's concept, the value, as well as with folk custom culture relations. Summarized and introduced the Dough Sculpture's artistic value, the artistic characteristic and the Dough Sculpture's implication to forgive, carried on the analysis to its inheritance way and the dissemination environment. In modern civilization high speed development today, the Dough Sculpture gradually to fade out the life stage immediately, the author proposed the development suggestion, it must strengthen oppositely Dough Sculpture's the scholarly research; Strengthens the Dough Sculpture and the market relation; Strengthens the Dough Sculpture's inheritance and construction;Profits from other artistic.