Lingnan tigers celebrate the New Year

The theme art exhibition of the Year of the Tiger opened at the Provincial Cultural Center, and the Lingnan Intangible Cultural Heritage was jointly exhibited

Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhouhui and correspondent Diao Xiaohua photo report: On January 11, the fourth phase of the 2021 "In Guangdong" series of activities: "Tiger Power Fully Open - Nonyin Year of the Tiger Theme Art Exhibition" opened in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center. Shiwan ceramic sculpture, Foshan paper-cutting, Guang embroidery, tide embroidery and other Lingnan intangible cultural heritage works on the theme of the "Tiger" Chinese zodiac were jointly exhibited, which opened the audience's eyes.

Zheng Xiaoyang, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center, introduced in his speech at the opening ceremony that the tiger image is an element or theme that contemporary art design and cultural and creative decoration are keen on, vividly showing the positive, strong and self-reliant spiritual temperament of the Chinese people in the new era, and pinning people's beautiful hopes and expectations.

The exhibition can be described as "The Tigers Celebrate the New Year", inviting many representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at the national and provincial levels, masters of arts and crafts, etc. to participate together, and exhibiting a large number of Lingnan intangible cultural heritage works on the theme of the "Tiger" Zodiac, with different technical forms and expression techniques. There are lifelike "embroidery tigers" such as Guangzhou embroidery master Chen Shaofang and Chao embroidery master Sun Qingxian, there are paper-cutting artists such as Chen Yongcai, Rao Baolian, and Lian Xiaohong, who are full of charm, there are "paper-cutting tigers" with full charm such as Chen Yongcai, Rao Baolian, and Lian Xiaohong, there are delicate and exquisite "olive carving tigers" such as Master Of Olive carving Zeng Zhaohong, and "pottery tigers" vividly visualized by provincial arts and crafts masters Wang Zengfeng and Shiwan pottery master Pan Bolin.

Among them, the Xiashan Tiger Tide Embroidery created by Sun Qingxian, a representative inheritor of chao embroidery at the national level, attracted many audiences, and its same work was presented to the Canadian prime minister as a "national gift". This tide embroidery adopts the technique of K gold chaotic needlework, which truly expresses the mighty momentum of the tiger "a roar of wind and a hundred beasts". Pan Bolin's "Happy Year" series is a zodiac sculpture specially created for the Year of the Tiger, and five tigers with different postures reproduce the heroic posture and arrogance of the "King of the Hundred Beasts".

In addition to traditional intangible cultural heritage works, the exhibition also exhibits cultural and creative products such as the "Tiger Young General" IP series created by the South VietnamEse King Museum based on the bronze tiger festival with the wrong gold inscription, the "Ji WuFu" series of appreciating culture, and the "Great King Driving To" of the Elephant Workshop. The image of a tiger that is both fierce and cute contains the meaning of vitality and sunshine.

On the opening day, the organizer also invited the guest of honor and the representative inheritor of foshan woodblock new year paintings at the municipal level, Liu Zhongping, to lead the audience to conduct an interactive experience of Foshan woodblock new year paintings, teach everyone to print a mighty and cute new year painting tiger, and wish the audience "full power of the tiger" in the year of the tiger.

The event was guided by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province and hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Center (Guangdong Provincial Center for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage). According to reports, the exhibition will last until January 22, during which the Tiger Zodiac Theme Handicraft Class will be launched, inviting exhibitors to share the historical connotation of traditional Zodiac culture and related intangible cultural heritage production techniques, and jointly promote the Zodiac culture and celebrate the auspicious New Year.