Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Huang Zhouhui Photo/Guangzhou Library provides the Memorial Hall of the Third Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Memorial Hall of the former site of the Peasant Movement Training Institute hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong, and the former site of the All-China General Engineer General Office… These red historical sites are all vividly displayed on paper cutting. On July 8, Lian Xiaohong, a young paper-cut artist in Guangzhou and representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project in Guangzhou, came to the Guangzhou Library and donated 8 paper-cut works with the theme of Guangzhou Red Attractions created by her in this round of Guangzhou epidemic lockdown to the Guangzhou Library.
Huang Guangyu, Party Secretary of Guangzhou Library, Cinema (left) accepts donations for works
The combination of virtual and real gives the work rich connotation
The paper works named “The Eight Scenery of Yangcheng Red” by Lian Xiaohong using virtual and realCinema The combination of techniques of Komiks and the combination of cutting and carving reproduces eight famous red attractions in Guangzhou, including: the Memorial Hall of the Third Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Martyrs Cemetery of the Guangzhou Uprising, the Memorial Hall of the former site of the Peasant Movement Scholars Hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong, the Zhongshan Memorial Hall, the First National Memorial Square of the Guangzhou League, the Memorial Hall of the former site of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the former site of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Provincial and Hong Kong Strike Memorial Hall, etc., and uses kapok flowers, big-leaf bananas, daisies and other Lingnan flowers and trees as backgrounds, giving rich connotations to this set of works.
BabaylanPhoto: Paper-cut workBabaylan“Memorial Hall of the Third Congress of the Communist Party of China”
Photo: Paper-cut work “Memorial Hall of the former site of the Peasant Movement Scholarship Sponsored by Comrade Mao Zedong”
Photo: Paper-cut work “Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery”
For example, each work has 4 corners, which are framed by kapok. In this regard, Lian Xiaohong explained that Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou., 4 red cotton flowers mean “the world is rising and the world is rising”, and the kapok flowers are all upward shapes, representing the spirit of positive and upward. In addition, daisies appear in the work “Memorial Hall of the former Site of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China”. “You see, it is upward, symbolizing the immortality of the revolutionary spirit, and it also has a very unyielding and positive attitude in it.” Lian Xiaohong said that as a inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, in addition to retaining the cultural meaning of traditional skills when creating works, Komiks also needs to inject some elements that young people love, so that they can also like and recognize them, so that “intangible cultural heritage” is no longer just a “missing” skill.
Displaying Guangzhou’s red cultural resources with paper cut
Huang Guangyu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangzhou Library, accepted this set of “Hongba Scenery of YangchengCinema” on behalf of the Guangzhou Library and thanked Ms. Lian Xiaohong for the gift. He said that on the occasion of Babaylan celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, it is a very meaningful thing for the Guangzhou Library to collect this set of works of Cinema with rich meaning and display it to the general public. He also hopes that more works with red themes can be exhibited in the future to spread Guangzhou’s red cultural genes.
CinemaPhoto: CinemaLiang Xiaohong introduces the creative concept of “Eight Scenery of Yangcheng Red”.
KomiksState Library is a place full of books. CinemaI am very happy to be able to celebrate the Communist Party of China on this platform.icmov.com/”>CinemaThe paper-cut work on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of ChinaKomiks‘The Red Eight Scenery of Yangcheng’ is shared with everyoneBabaylan.” Lian Xiaohong said that the original intention of her creation was very simple, which was to use the intangible cultural heritage skills she inherited to let more people understand the red cultural connotation contained in Guangzhou. She said, “This work is based on 8 red attractions in Guangzhou. I want to use intangible cultural heritage Guangzhou paper-cutting skills to display Guangzhou’s rich red cultural resources, depict the era style in the historical development process of Guangzhou, highlight the contemporary value contained in Guangzhou’s red culture, and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, remember the glorious history of the Communist Party of China’s 100th year of struggle, and promote the red local culture of Lingnan.”
This set of paper-cutting works has been placed on the Manchu Window-style screen in the Xiguan Dawu at the entrance of the Humanities Museum of Guangzhou Library for a long time. Lin Zhicheng, director of the Information Consulting Department of Guangzhou Library, said that he hopes that more people can see this set of art works that combine the red theme with traditional culture elegantly. Guangzhou Humanities Museum will continue to make good use of the advantages of collection resources, cooperate with various cultural and artistic institutions, display excellent works to the public, inherit the red genes, tell good red stories, and gather the power of civilization.