Text and pictures/Wang Yuanchang
ExploreCinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe year is gone with the sound of bamboo, and the spring breeze brings warmth to the summer. In the sun, thousands of households always replace the old charms with new peaches.
——”New Year’s Day” by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty
In the Lunar New Year, different regions have different folk customs; different families have different expectations. But the feelings rooted in the heart and praying for a better life are interconnected and difficult to change. The artistic expression that carries the profound feelings of Yan and Huang, interprets the folk customs and beautifies people’s lives. Babaylan 1990 cloth draw is indispensable for colorful New Year pictures.
The origin of Chinese New Year paintings can be traced back to the patron sacred paintings such as exorcism and evil spirits in the Qin and Han Dynasties or earlier, including Tao Talismans, Zhong Kui statues, Tianxing posts, etc. By the Song Dynasty, with the rise and maturity of woodblock printing technology, New Year’s paintings gradually evolved from patron sacred paintings to colored and colored woodblocked New Year’s paintings, which was the first precedent for woodblock New Year’s paintings in the history of Chinese painting.
In recent years, there have been woodblock New Year pictures of 17 major domestic production areas, including Tianjin Yangliuqing, Jiangsu Suzhou, Shandong Weifang, Sichuan Mianzhu, Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Kaifeng, Henan, Fengxiang, Shaanxi, etc., and have been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.
In my more than ten years of searching for New Year pictures, I discovered that the birthplace of Chinese woodblock New Year pictures, the New Year pictures of “Zhuxian Town” in Kaifeng have a strong aroma of yin and yellow, full of emotions, and vivid folk customs.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, and the Taohuawu, Suzhou and Yangliu Youth Paintings in Tianjin, which are praised by the world as “Tao and North Willows in the South”, are the most dazzling in the north and south. They create based on real life, highlighting the character characteristics of the characters, and the pictures are prosperous and lively, full of expressiveness and attractiveness.
TodayBabaylan 1990 cloth draw, woodblock New Year pictures with a long history and classic Chinese cultural heritage have been picked up by more and more people, from the past posting on the four walls of the house to exquisitely made and framed artworks, bidding farewell to the old and welcome the new, including daily houses, newlyweds, etc., and laying up hanging hall shops.
Especially, some courtyard houses in the streets and alleys of the New Year pictures, “always replace new peaches with old charms”, the New Year pictures hanging in the hall and the door gods posted outside the two courtyard doors form a beautiful New Year scenery with Jirui’s couplets and festive red lanterns. It highlights people’s yearning for a better life and exudes the youth that is hard to let go of in the hearts of the people.
The earliest expression of New Year paintings is the door paintings posted on the door of the New Year, namely the “door god”, with different colors and techniques in different regions. Figure 1 is the door god New Year painting created by Yin Guoquan, the national inheritor of Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year painting; Figure 2 is the door god New Year painting of Yang Liuqing; Figure 3 is the door god New Year painting created by Tai Liping, the national inheritor of Fengxiang woodblock New Year painting; Figure 4 is the door god New Year painting created by Yang Fuyuan, the national inheritor of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year painting. Zhuxian Town, Kaifeng
The precedent of woodblock New Year paintings
In ancient times, Zhuxian Town was ranked one of the “Four Ancient Towns in China”. What made its reputation famous was the woodblock New Year paintings that were flourishing here and passed down through the ages. Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year paintings, as an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese art, was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The day I went to Zhuxian Town, I caught a rare heavy snow in Kaifeng. The flying snowflakes in the sky made the morning of the ancient town less noisy, and the sight of some shops and vendors cleaning the snow in front of the door. This ancient town that has been in the wind and rain for thousands of years cannot imagine its glory. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw
The Yuewang Temple built here during the Ming Dynasty is located on the side of Yuemiao Street. It is a wooden New Year painting street in the ancient town. Now many old wooden New Year painting brands have been restored. On this old street, you can not only feel the charm of traditional wooden New Year paintings, but you can buy valuable works by your favorite New Year painting craftsmen for a few dozen yuan.
According to historical records, Zhuxian Town Wooden New Year paintings, known as the “ancestor of Chinese woodblock New Year paintings”, was born in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it reached more than 300 New Year painting workshops. The opening of the canal made Zhuxian Town a commercial center in the Central Plains, and the sales of New Year paintings flourished. Many merchants gathered here from the current Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Ningxia and other regions to buy two-thirds of the country’s New Year paintings.
The prosperity of Zhuxian Town Wooden New Year paintings is inseparable from the fertile land of Kaifeng. Kaifeng during the Northern Song Dynasty was the center of politics, economy and culture in the country. The huge urban class activated the demand for folk culture and provided the creation of New Year paintings. DrawThe rich soil and market.
Meng Yuanlao’s “Dream of Tokyo” records that “In recent years, the market has printed door gods, peach boards, peach talismans, etc. “Displaying the “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” which depicts the social life of the Northern Song Dynasty, the cover of the “Wang Family Paper Horse” shop near the beginning of the volume is clearly identifiable.
Strive on a New Year Painting Street close to the ancient canal. The old houses on both sides are mottled and the rugged eaves indicate the years it has experienced. DrawThe vicissitudes of life, the original taste is full of nostalgia.
A two-story shop has a high “profile” with black background and yellow characters, and the letter “Tiancheng Old Store” is written on it. There is no decoration in the old house with peeling paint. The four walls are full of New Year pictures, including the mighty door god, the iron-faced and curly bearded Zhong Kui’s head, the five sons win the championship, the pine crane and the longevity of the lotus, the lotus gives birth to a noble son and other representative themes.
The fifth generation successor of the “Tiancheng Old Store” and the seventy The old man Yin Guoquan, who was a man in a very simple dress, sat in front of the stage where various colors of paints were piled up. With the help of his grandson, he repeatedly applied different paints and printed New Year pictures in color. It took the old man a month to place a newly-engraved set of carved plates on the stage.
The iron rack next to it was full of colorful greens, and the New Year pictures that had just been printed and dried were very beautiful. Behind the counter was Mr. Yin’s wife, the production table was connected to the counter, a typical traditional workshop.
Every year, it begins to enter the peak period of New Year’s painting production. The picture shows Yin Guoquan, who is fully focused on printing New Year’s paintings. In Yin Guoquan’s view, the authentic traditional skills are facing the danger of losing. Over the past few decades, he has created more than 300 sets of carved plates and more than 1,500 pieces. He said: “The pigments I printed in New Year’s paintings are carefully processed and boiled with plants such as pine smoke, locust rice, and Zhangdan. Although it takes time and effort, the color is correct compared to the current industrial pigments. ”
”The things passed down by the older generation cannot be lost. My two sons and grandsons are heirs. “Looking at his hands that were slightly rougher than ordinary people, and the wrinkles on his face that were gullyed by the years, a shocking heart filled with Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw bottom.
The “Tiancheng Old Store” connected to the counter of the production stand is full of vicissitudes of time. The content of the woodblock New Year pictures in Zhuxian Town is mostly based on familiar historical stories and myths and legends. The printing technique is mainly made of woodblocked and water-colored overprints, six versions, and some are as many as nine versions. The red, yellow, green and purple colors are bright and exaggerated. The characters have big heads and small bodies, and look rustic and cute. Most characters have white faces on their faces , red eyelids, this is its unique technique and also the representative style of Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year paintings.
The vigorous and ancient lines, simple and symmetrical patterns, and rough and thick atmosphere reflect the strong local art style of Zhuxian Town located in the heart of the Central Plains. Mr. Lu Xun once commented on Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year paintings, “These woodblocks are simple, with thick and powerful engravings, and they are not stained with powder. The characters have no charm, the colors are strong and very local. ”
The special stamp of “Zhuxian Town Wooden Print New Year Pictures” issued in 2008 is taken from the classic story, Sanniang teaches her children, returning home with a full load, and Feng Xianglan
The real-life theme park Qingming Shanghe Park, which was opened to the public in 1998, Babaylan 1990 clothes draw is located on the west bank of Longting Lake, Kaifeng City. It is a large historical and cultural park with the theme of Song culture as a 5A scenic spot based on the actual painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” written by Northern Song painter Zhang Zeduan.
The Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year pictures are sold all year round. You can learn about the traditional woodblock New Year pictures production in the retro New Year pictures store. Visitors can not only appreciate and purchase, but also participate in the interaction on site.
In the ancient and vigorous Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year pictures, the red, yellow, green and purple are bright and thick, the characters are exaggerated, with a big head and a small body, looking rustic and cute.
Suzhou Taohuawu
Carrying beautiful expectations
The ancient city of Suzhou is gentle and colorful, and has a thousand years of cultural heritage, giving Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures a brilliant and outstanding character. During the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, the prosperous period of Taohuawu New Year paintings. Hundreds of painters and printing craftsmen gathered here. The New Year paintings were sold to Southeast Asia, and “Taohuawu” became synonymous with Suzhou woodblock New Year paintings.
See some books recording Suzhou’s cultural tourism or wandering in historical districts such as Shantang Street and Pingjiang Road. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw You can see Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw to the shop of “Taohuawu New Year Painting”. There is also a Taohuawu Street in Suzhou, which is a stone road that is not wide. Houses with pink walls and black tiles are arranged on both sides. The hanging lanterns and Spring Festival couplets exude the joy of the New Year.
In the shops on Taohuawu Street, it is not difficult to find the shadow of New Year pictures. In Puyuan on Xiaochangqiao Road, which intersects Taohuawu Avenue, the Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Painting Museum was found. Walking in, a fresh and elegant garden comes into view, and the New Year Painting Museum is quietly hidden in the lush green shade.
Small bridges and flowing water in Suzhou can be used in paintings
The museum currently collects hundreds of ancient New Year painting collections. There is Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe character “Fu” is a picture of “Fu” and “Family Love” and “Magu’s Birthday Picture, “Shuangmei Love Flower Picture”, “Gusu Xuanmiao Temple” and other rare items are displayed. In the real scene display part, the living room is covered with “three stars shining” and “eight immortals crossing the sea”, which means the seats are full of guests; the bedroom is covered with “flowers bloom and wealth” and “become a noble son early”, which means the harmony of couples. These New Year pictures that reflect the living conditions of the people in ancient times are loved by modern people. Komiks 1960 witch clothes draw.
I saw a table with engraving tools such as engraving, engraving platform, printing platform, brown brush, brown rub, fist knife, etc., and several inheritors in their early thirties were engraving the version meticulously. Holding a knife in his right hand, Babaylan 1990 cloth draw skillfully carved lines on the woodblock, and a little sweat came out of the tip of his nose but he didn’t care to wipe it off. His concentration looked like making the most precious treasure in the world.
The antique Taohuawu historical classic woodblock New Year painting “Flowers Bloom and Rich”
According to reports, a Taohuawu woodblock New Year painting is not completed by a painter alone. It requires three steps: painting, engraving and printing, and is created by a collective creation. Compared with New Year pictures in other regions, the characteristic of Taohuawu New Year pictures is that they rely entirely on plate printing, and there is no stroke after printing, which is known for their excellence.
A fist knife that is just clenched by the palm can evolve into four methods: starting knife, placing knife, picking knife, and re-knife. It pays attention to “firmly launching the knife, picking the knife, and shoveling the bottom”. The lines should be natural and vigorous, clean and neat. Generally speaking, it takes 5 years to learn the paintings of Taohuawu New Year paintings, 4 years to engrave and 2 years to print.
One of the main steps of traditional Chinese woodblock New Year paintings. In early 2008, a New Year painting “A Mutual Qi” created during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty was successfully copied in Puyuan. This can be called the pioneering work of Taohuawu New Year paintings. “A Mutual” warns the people of the palace to live in harmony and spread to the people’s desire to unite and fulfill their wishes.
《A Mutual Qi” is one of the representative works of Taohuawu woodblock New Year paintings
Since history, Taohuawu woodblock New Year paintings have carved a unique folk custom, that is, from content to social effects, called woodblock New Year paintings, but not limited to New Year’s posting and hanging. Instead, in accordance with the seasons, when different festivals and solar terms come every year, woodblock New Year paintings should be used to express different beautiful expectations.
For example, when bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, “Happy Picture” should be posted at the beginning of spring; when the Mid-Autumn Festival, “Moon Palace Picture” should be posted… and the new year is here again.
Tianjin Yangliuqing
So deeply influenced by multiculturalism
During the Spring Festival, when we came to Yangliuqing Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin, an antique buildings with carved beams and painted buildings immediately came into view. The frozen ancient canal quietly “hibernates” in the town, and several beautiful arch bridges span the ice surface.
Tianjin Yangliuqing, surrounded by Ziya River, Nan Canal and Daqing River, was an important wharf for north-south cargo circulation and overseas trade in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures are therefore deeply influenced by multiculturalism.
Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street is a Scenery
According to historical records, Yangliuqing painting first appeared in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and reached unprecedented prosperity during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1958, the state established the Yangliuqing Painting Club to rescue the New Year painting art, collected and organized Yangliuqing Painting, and cultivated a group of excellent New Year painting artists.
In recent years, with the prosperity of the reform and opening up and the prosperity of the cultural and tourism market, the demand for Yangliuqing Painting has expanded, bringing this ancient folk art back to the lives of the people. At the same time, Yangliuqing Painting has also entered the international art sales and collection market.
If Taohuawu New Year’s paintings are like implicit and beautiful beauty, then Yangliuqing New Year’s paintings are lively and straightforward men. From the picture of fat dolls holding carp and lotus in hand to the three-star picture of good fortune and longevity, a unique style of vivid, lively, joyful and full of emotions was created.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawYangliuqing New Year’s paintings inherited the tradition of Song and Yuan paintings, and absorbed the forms of woodcuts, arts and crafts, and drama stages in the Ming Dynasty. The early craftsmanship was basically the same as Taohuawu New Year’s paintings, and both used the stereotyped drawings.Printing; when it comes to post-production, it takes a lot of time to be used for hand-painting.
Yang LiuqingBabaylan 1990 cloth drawNew Year’s painting Five sons of the Lotus were selected as stamps
A New Year’s painting requires five main processes: drawing, carving and drawing, woodblock overprinting, hand-painting, and mounting, plus more than three monochrome overprinting. Because of the combination of printing and painting, it has the visual effect of quiet, elegant and lively Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, which is beyond the reach of other folk New Year pictures.
The content of the picture is mainly folk life, fat dolls, maids and historical stories. The most classic one is “After Years of Life”, the doll in the painting has a baby face and a Buddha body, a playful posture, a martial arts stand, a carp in his arms, and a lotus in his hands, which caters to the folk’s beautiful wishes of “praying for blessings and blessings” and “more children and blessings”.
Yangliuqing Door God New Year’s Picture
On the antique Ming and Qing Streets, Yuchengha, Yichengyong, Gu Liuxiang, Huayunzhai and others are dazzled, New Year’s painting workshops one by one, and there are more than 60 New Year’s painting production workshops and sales stores in Yangliuqing Town. It is Babaylan 1990 clothes drawOne of the best New Year pictures was restored, and it seems to be back to the scene of “drawing every family and painting every household” during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Tourists buying New Year pictures are endless all year round.
The first woodblock New Year painting museum in Yangliuqing TownCinema 1950 witch cloth draw, and the “Appreciation of New Year paintings and Observation of Folk Customs” series of activities are held every year in the first month of each year.
The northern folk house in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the museum, with a picture representing the good things of heaven and the lower part of the stove.The “Kitchen God” is a “King of Kitchen God” who ensures safety; a big carp that represents more than a year and has a lively and vivid shape; a painting of the three-star middle hall of blessings and longevity is posted in the middle of the main hall to protect the whole family; the living rooms on both sides, the upper house where the mother-in-law lives is posted with the New Year pictures with the New Year pictures with many children and blessings; the lower house where the daughter-in-law lives is posted with the New Year pictures with many children and blessings; the side of the kang is covered with the kang with a strong local atmosphere. Visitors to the museum can also experience the production process of woodblock New Year pictures.
When I walked out of the museum, what I impressed most was the gorgeous and vividness of Yangliu Youth New Year’s paintings, and I could not forget the local people’s persistence in “only posting New Year’s paintings is considered to be the New Year’s Day.”
Yangliu Youth Painting takes a lot of effort to use hand-painting. The picture shows the painter of “New Year’s Painting” is focusing on the ending of the classic painting “After Years and More”
Now, the improvement and innovation of New Year’s paintings are a new issue faced by older New Year’s painting craftsmen and young painters. Although it takes time and effort, it can be seen that it has a dense taste of life, abundant emotions and aesthetic interests, and the full expression of the Chinese culture and the dreams of Yanhuang for thousands of years.
With more than two thousand years of history, woodblock New Year paintings created by Chinese local artists, it is the oldest type of painting in the world, an encyclopedia of Chinese folk customs and a “living fossil” full of elements of Chinese civilization.
Yangcheng Evening News’ February 3, 2022 A7 Evening Party Supplement
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1770 National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative ProjectsKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawPurpose Woodblock New Year Paintings
1. Woodblock New Year Paintings in Zhuxian Town, Kaifeng, Henan Province:
Simple and naive, with a long history, was born in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was the founder of Chinese woodblock New Year Paintings.
2. Tianjin Yangliuqing woodblock New Year painting:
Celebrating the fun of the palace and the interests of the citizens.
Contains auspiciousness and happinessIt means that Yangliuqing New Year’s painting “Homes and Family Sat” by “Yu Chenghao Painting”
3. Wood-print New Year’s paintings in Taohuawu, Suzhou, Jiangsu: delicate and neat, rich in color.
Suzhou’s small bridges and flowing water can be painted, giving birth to the beautiful Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures
4. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures in Weifang, Shandong:
Not bound by nature, rich imagination, and express the theme with generalization, romance, symbolism and meaning; the composition is complete, full and symmetrical; the shape is exaggerated, concise and simple.
5. Sichuan Mianzhu woodblock New Year painting:
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw has a strong meaning and a bright color.
6. Wooden New Year Pictures of Zhangzhou, Fujian:
The region has rich colors, and the themes of gods and Buddhas are rich and diverse.
7. Wooden New Year paintings in Foshan, Guangdong:
The image is delicate, rough and concise, strong and powerful, with a full composition, which expresses its auspiciousness and is highly distinctive.
8. Wooden New Year paintings in Longhui, Hunan:
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw is decorated with orange and red, with close colors, round lines, strong sense of movement, and strong decorative flavor.
9. Hebei Wuqiang Wooden New Year Pictures:
Rough and simple, full of rural atmosphere.
10. Chongqing Liangping Wooden-sheet New Year Pictures:
The shape is vivid and lively, the color contrast is strong, and it is full of lifestyle.
11. Wooden New Year paintings in Dongchangfu, Liaocheng, Shandong:
The composition is simple, the overall feeling is strong, the characters are exaggerated, full and simple; the lines are round and smooth
12. Wooden New Year paintings in Pingyang, Linfen, Shanxi:
The shape is exaggerated, the image is vivid, and the decorative is strong.
13. Shaanxi Fengxiang woodblock New Year paintings:
The style is rough and exaggerated, with large blocks of colors, and the characters are dynamic Babaylan 1990 cloth draw, and is vivid and powerful.
14. Zhang Qiu woodblock New Year paintings in Yanggu, Shandong Province:
The composition is plump, well-proportioned and simple.
15. Sichuan Jiajiang Wooden New Year Pictures:
Bright colors and exquisite craftsmanship, and was as famous as Mianzhu New Year Pictures and Liangping New Year Pictures.
16. Wooden New Year pictures in Huaxian County, Henan Province: The printing process is meticulous and complex, the composition of the picture is balanced and symmetrical, the image is full and solid, and the lines are strong and powerful.
17. Hubei Laohekou woodblock New Year painting:
Exquisite carvingCinema 1950 witch cloth draw thin and smooth, rough and powerful lines, and vivid and exaggerated characters.