New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty KomiksLi Yuanqing
What do you think of when it comes to Guangdong New Year Customs? Some customs such as visiting the flower street and washing the sloppy, which are still prosperous today; some customs such as worshiping the Kitchen God and worshiping the God of Wealth on the second day of the Chinese New Year, which were once an indispensable part of the Lingnan Spring Festival, but are gradually fading away with the development of the times. Recently, Southern Media and Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs, which not only include Foshan woodblock Babaylan and Guangdong Paper-cutting National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, but also Lingnan New Year Customs Publications, Traditional Lingnan Halls, and Lingnan famous paintings. The exhibition lasts until February 28thCinema.
The highlights of the exhibition are two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that are very Guangdong-style and integrate traditional New Year customs culture – Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper cutting. Foshan woodblock New Year paintings began in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty to Komiks in the early Republic of China. They were as famous as Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou, and Weifang in Shandong. They were one of the four major woodblock New Year paintings in China. It was once a festival in Lingnan. It was an important decoration for homes and houses. It was sold well in Lingnan in the past.It is sold overseas and even overseas, carrying people’s yearning and wishes for a better life.
Due to the changes of the times, it gradually declined due to the impact of modern lifestyles, and even disappeared completely for a time. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, son of Feng Jun, who was famous New Year painting art, gave up his original career and studied again in order to realize his father’s last wish, so that he could study and study again. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaNew Year paintings can be seen again. The Feng New Year Painting Workshop he founded is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition displays the complete set of production tools and production processes of Feng’s New Year Painting Workshop, as well as the works of “Door God” and “God of Wealth”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures are used to depict the deep and deep mark of Lingnan with a knife; one exquisite carved piece of Babaylan, passing on the unique Babaylan New Year customs and blessings from the past to the present.
Guangdong paper cutting is another national intangible cultural heritage project in this exhibition. The paper-cut exhibits in this exhibition are from Foshan, Shantou Chaoyang, and LeizhouIntangible cultural heritage inheritors and enthusiasts in other places not only inherit the ancient intangible cultural heritage skills in authenticity, showing the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, but also combining the preferences of modern people to boldly innovate in artistic style and picture content.