China's eight "New Year Painting Tigers" debuted in Changsha Unique innovative New Year painting works inherit intangible cultural heritage

A beachhead woodblock print by the Year of the Tiger. Photo courtesy of the interviewee

People's Daily Changsha, January 16 (Lin Luofu, Zhou Zhiguang) Town House Tiger, Reunion Tiger, Ruyi Tiger, Auspicious Tiger... Yesterday, eight New Year paintings from different regions of China appeared in Changsha, and the eight non-hereditary inheritors of the New Year paintings combined with this year's Lunar Year of the Tiger to design a unique and innovative New Year painting work, and displayed them on the Mu Ming Nian Painting Tiger Blessing Wine, becoming a strong combination of paper painting and the object in the cup.

New Year painting is a kind of Chinese painting, which began in ancient times as "Door God Painting", which is one of Chinese folk arts and one of the common folk crafts. Traditional folk New Year paintings are mostly made of wood board watermarks, and most of the New Year paintings are used to post decorative environments during the New Year, containing the meaning of blessing the New Year auspicious and festive.

Zhong Xinglin, non-hereditary inheritor of Hunan Tantou woodblock prints, introduced: "The eight themes and eight blessings we show today interpret the 'most beautiful China' from the perspective of New Year paintings, and the New Year Painting Tiger Blessing Wine brings together the works of non-hereditary inheritors of Eight Annual Paintings in China from south to north, and each inheritor is a representative inheritor of the national or provincial level." ”

Among them, the image of "Zhenzhai Tiger" was personally written by Zhong Jiantong, the national inheritor of Hunan Tantou Woodblock New Year Painting; "Reunion Tiger" was written by Huo Qingshun, the inheritor of Tianjin Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Painting; "Honest Tiger" came from the ingenuity of Ren Helin, the inheritor of Kaifeng New Year painting; and "Ruyi Tiger" was written by Tai Liping, the inheritor of Shaanxi Fengxiang Shixing New Year Painting.

"Zhongyi Tiger" comes from Sichuan and is the work of Li Fangfu, the inheritor of Mianzhu woodblock prints; "Ping'an Tiger" comes from Hebei and pins the hopes of Ma Xiqin, the inheritor of Wuqiang's woodblock prints; the hometown of the "Auspicious Tiger" is in Shandong, which is the masterpiece of Yang Jiabu of Weifang and Yang Naidong, the inheritor of Xingyong New Year paintings; "Longevity Tiger" is from Guangdong and is the blessing of Feng Jinqiang, the inheritor of Foshan's Feng's woodblock prints.

Each handmade wooden board New Year painting from a non-hereditary inheritor has undergone more than 20 or 30 processes, each process cannot be completed unless a craftsman who has been skilled for several years, and the production of intangible cultural new year painting reflects the profundity of traditional Chinese culture from another angle.

"Seeing the gradual loss of intangible cultural heritage represented by traditional New Year paintings, we wondered whether we could use products as a carrier to make it a link between traditional culture and consumers, so as to inherit intangible cultural heritage and meet the needs of consumers." Yang Yong, chairman of Muming Wine, hopes to inherit the intangible cultural heritage and pay tribute to the ingenuity of the intangible cultural heritage in a new form.

Source: People's Daily News