The special exhibition of Wu Qiang's New Year paintings was opened at the China Port Museum in Ningbo. Photo by Chen Hezhi
At present, the special exhibition of Wuqiang New Year Paintings jointly sponsored by the Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum of Hengshui City and the China Port Museum of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, is being held at the Ningbo China Port Museum, so that the charm of Yanzhao culture and art and national intangible cultural heritage can be fully displayed in Jiangnan Water Town. The exhibition runs for 3 months from December 30, 2021 to March 28, 2022.
Local people visit the exhibition. Photo by Chen Hezhi
With the theme of "New Year Paintings Returning to the Spring Festival", this exhibition exhibits more than 100 pieces of New Year painting treasures and fine works collected by Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum since the Qing Dynasty, including Door God Gate Paintings, Immortal Buddha Statues, Lion and Tiger Vases, Doll Beauties, Painting Puzzles and Other Categories, with diverse forms, festive and auspicious. The scene also launched the Wuqiang woodblock print chromatic printing traditional skills experience activity, so that the local people can appreciate the art of new year painting, but also can print Wuqiang woodblock new year painting, experience the charm of engraving printing.
Wu Qiangnian paintings exhibited in the exhibition. Photo by Chen Hezhi
Wuqiang woodblock prints have a long history, known as "the epitome of China's farming society", "the grand view garden of folk life" and "the illustration of the Oriental Bible", and in 2006, it was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. The rich wind of Yanzhao collides with the gentle Jiangsu and Zhejiang culture, presenting the audience with a rich Spring Festival cultural feast, so that everyone can understand the long history and profound heritage of Wuqiang woodblock prints in the exhibition, and appreciate the roughness and inclusiveness of Yanzhao culture and art.
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