Wu Qiang's New Year Painting Special Exhibition Site. Hebei Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum Courtesy of
Hengshui, December 30 (Cui Zhiping, Chen Hezhi) Hebei Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum revealed on the 30th that the Special Exhibition of Wuqiang New Year Paintings jointly sponsored by the New Year Painting Museum and the China Port Museum in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, was opened at the Ningbo China Port Museum in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
With the theme of "New Year Paintings Returning to the Spring Festival", this exhibition exhibits more than 102 pieces of Wuqiang Woodblock New Year Painting Treasures and Fine Works collected by the Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum since the Qing Dynasty, including 68 treasures of Qing and Republic of China New Year paintings, and the others are Qing editions and modern Wuqiang New Year paintings, including Door God Gate Paintings, Immortal Buddha Statues, Lion and Tiger Vases, Doll Beauties, Humorous Irony, Riddles and Entertainment and other categories, with diverse forms and festive and auspicious.
On the same day, the exhibition also launched the Wuqiang woodblock new year painting chromatic printing traditional skills experience activity, so that the audience can enjoy the art of new year painting, can print Wuqiang woodblock chromatic new year painting "Fuhu Yingchun" on the spot, personally experience the charm of engraving printing.
It is reported that the exhibition period is from January 30, 2021 to March 28, 2022, for a period of three months, which is a special cultural feast of "Double Festival" for New Year's Day and Spring Festival for local citizens. The rich wind of Yanzhao and the gentle jiangsu and Zhejiang culture collide, so that local citizens can understand the long history and profound heritage of Wuqiang New Year paintings in the exhibition, and see the rough and bold and inclusive culture and art of Yanzhao.
Wuqiang woodblock prints have a long history and are known as "the epitome of China's farming society", "the Grand View Garden of Folk Life", and "the Illustration of the Oriental Bible". In 2006, it was selected into the list of national intangible cultural heritage. (End)