Hunan Daily, New Hunan Client, January 6 (All Media Reporter Xiao Xiao Correspondent Yang Guigui) On January 6, the reporter learned from the Longhui County Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center that the Longhui Tantou Zodiac New Year Painting "Tiger Welcoming The Rich" designed by Liu Shengwen, a teacher at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Shonan University, was printed at the Fumei Xiangnian Painting Workshop in Tantou Town and has been fully listed.
"The whole New Year painting is composed in the form of a zodiac character plus 'Five Sons Dengke', reflecting the rich atmosphere of the Year of the Tiger." Yin Dongxiang, the owner of the Fumei Xiangnian Painting Workshop and the provincial non-hereditary inheritor of the beachhead woodblock new year painting, introduced that the shape of the protagonist of the new year painting is based on a tiger wearing a handsome costume and a small flower feather, emphasizing joy and cuteness in heroism. The five little tigers are dynamic and different, which means that there is more than enough, auspicious, many children and many lives, and the source of wealth is rolling.
Tantou woodblock new year painting is the only handmade woodblock watermark new year painting in our province, with bright and moist colors, personalized modeling methods, pure local materials and unique craftsmanship, making the artistic effect of the work unique. In 2006, it was officially listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects. Since 2014, Longhui County has actively guided the inheritors of tantou woodblock prints to carry out the innovative development of New Year paintings, and successively innovated zodiac New Year paintings such as "Pig Fortune Bandai", "Rat Qingfeng Year" and "Cow Farming Prosperity". In order to better protect the Tantou woodblock prints, in 2021, the county intangible cultural heritage protection center openly solicited the work of new year paintings to the public, enriched the content of new year paintings, promoted the integration of new year paintings into the modern market, and attracted many famous artists to participate in the creation.