Hunan Daily, New Hunan Client, December 31 (Reporter Zheng Danmei Jiang Jianping) On December 30, the Provincial People's Government announced the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and Shaoyang Baoqing Brand Painting was successfully selected. This is also the only new traditional art project in this batch.
Baoqing branding painting, known as "branding flower" in ancient times, is a traditional art of using charcoal fire, oil lamp, and smoke lamp to heat the soldering iron and burn the pattern on the utensils. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the art of brand painting was widely spread in Shaoyang, mainly distributed in and around shaoyang city. Its skills include more than 40 processes in five major steps: material processing, utensil production, design and painting, carving, and painting. Soldering paint with soldering iron imitates the brush of the pen, with different shapes of soldering iron heads and different parts of the soldering iron, in the wooden board or bamboo board using hook, wrinkle, dot, dye and other pen techniques, showing a thick, virtual and solid picture effect, combined with the carving technique, can better express the three-dimensional sense of the object, layered sense.
In recent years, in order to inherit and carry forward the Baoqing brand painting, Tang Wenlin and Wang Yanping, the representative inheritors of the Baoqing brand painting, have innovated the brand painting materials, improved the national intangible cultural heritage "beachhead hand-copied paper" and produced handmade paper suitable for branding; combined the Baoqing brand painting with the history and culture of Huxiang, and used the technique of branding and carving to record the old streets and alleys and traditional folk customs that are about to disappear. At the same time, It also introduced Baoqing brand painting into the classroom, training nearly 500 students in total, making Baoqing brand painting well known to more people.
Up to now, Tang Wenlin and Wang Yanping have completed 136 series of works "Shaoyang Old Craftsmanship", 139 series of works "Huxiang Old Trade", 21 series of works "Huxiang Nian Customs" and "Huxiang Twenty-four Solar Terms". In 2014, the work "Bamboo Spring Storage Box" won the "Outstanding Handicraft Badge" issued by UNESCO, and also won the gold medals of "Hundred Flowers Cup" and "Golden Phoenix" of Chinese Arts and Crafts for many times.