Video production reporter Gu Jiayi
At the end of each year, many places across China have the custom of posting New Year paintings and couplets to wish for an auspicious and festive new year. The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is approaching, and from December 30th, the exhibition "Auspicious Ankang - Wuqiang New Year Paintings and Our Spring Festival" cooperated by the China Port Museum and the Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum will be launched at the China Port Museum. The exhibition specially selects 100 Wuqiang New Year paintings to introduce wonderful traditional folk culture treasures to the public, and also presents beautiful New Year wishes for everyone.
Wuqiang Nian paintings are popular in the Jizhong Plain, and are named because they originate in Wuqiang, Hebei. The origin can be traced back to the Song and Yuan dynasties, formed a scale during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and reached its peak during the Kangxi and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty.
Wu Qiang's New Year paintings are all handmade and overprinted with woodblock water color. Wu Qiangnian paintings have bright colors, rough lines, full composition, exaggerated shapes, and a unique artistic style.
"Cailian Silver Hanli Through the Golden City" Annual Painting
Guan Gong statue
The New Year paintings have a wide range of themes, rich content, and diverse forms, including dozens of door paintings, calendar paintings, window paintings, lamp paintings, zhongtang paintings, couplets, etc., which are rich in local atmosphere and local characteristics, and are considered to be "artistic representatives of farming society" and "grand garden of folk life". In 2006, Wu Qiang's New Year paintings were selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Lion rolling rust balls
"Rich Blossoms"
The exhibits in this exhibition can be divided into 6 categories according to the content, namely the door god painting, the immortal Buddha god, the festive image, the story opera, the folk customs and current affairs, and the puzzle amusement. It also showed the production process of Wu Qiangnian paintings, engraving, printing and mounting, and there was a live demonstration.
The exhibition is free and open to the public until 27 March 2022.
"Yuanming Aiju"
"Walking on the Snow in Search of Plums"
"Three Fish Fighting for the Moon" (The pictures in this article are provided by the China Port Museum)
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