Abstract: As one of the most historic social existences, folk art embodies profound cultural traditions of history, nationality and era. The transformation of folk art into cultural capital can not only provide a way out of the material age and rebuild a harmonious and orderly value system for the development of modern society, but also renew the root of culture in the fragmented post-modern cultural landscape and maintain the subjectivity of national culture in the tide of globalization; aiming at the confusion of modern people’ s values and the disappearance of moral standards, we can construct modern people’s healthy spiritual ecology. On the basis of the existing research on folk art economy, this paper probes into the eco -economic characteristics of folk art from the angles of origin, inheritance and development, and infers that folk art will transcend its own significance in the form of symbols and
provide the spiritual core of modern social economy with profound humanistic connotations.

Key words:  ecological economy, folk art economy, review