Zhang Huizhong, a non-hereditary heir of Zhangzhou daffodil carving, carved daffodils on the spot.
Take a picture under the poplar tree.
Paper-cutting artists Ouyang Yanjun (first from right) and Zhang Zhengrong (first from left) demonstrate paper-cutting techniques on the spot.
In the "Little Calligraphers" training class, children are practicing calligraphy.
Yan Chaojun, the inheritor of the woodblock New Year paintings, introduced the creation of new year paintings to the masses in Mulei.
As a famous historical and cultural city in China, Zhangzhou has a rich cultural heritage. Starting from 2020, Zhangzhou City will continue to hold a series of cultural activities of "Hai Silk and Land Silk Intangible Cultural Heritage - Yurun Huyang", and play a concerto of ethnic integration on the Mulei River, which is 4500 kilometers away from the Jiulong River in Zhangzhou.
The northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains are wafting with the fragrance of Hanmo books
"The day is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea..." On January 15, in the "Little Calligraphers and Painters" training class at the Mulei County Youth Activity Center in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, Kazakh primary school student Dannke sat in front of the book case, writing with a brush in his hand, and the onlookers cheered from time to time.
This is a microcosm of the "Calligraphy and Painting Runjiang" of the Zhangzhou Branch Headquarters of Fujian Aid to Xinjiang. Zhangzhou is a thousand-year-old county, a famous historical and cultural city, with rich cultural heritage. Lin Lipeng, deputy secretary of the Mulei County CPC Committee and commander of the Zhangzhou Branch Headquarters of Fujian Aid to Xinjiang, said: "Zhao'an County in Zhangzhou City is the 'hometown of national calligraphy and painting', Zhangpu is the first 'hometown of Chinese calligraphy' in Fujian, and now Zhangzhou has more than 120 members of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, more than 600 members of the provincial calligraphy and painting association, and calligraphy and painting talents. ”
At the beginning of last year, the Zhangzhou branch headquarters organized 11 famous calligraphers and painters from Zhangzhou City, including Lin Yumei, Shen Shunqian, Li Li, Lin Zhongwen, Wu Qisheng, and Zhou Yiming, to go deep into Mulei, a Kazakh autonomous county located in the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, to collect and create works in the Gobi Desert, Kanerjing, Pingdingshan, Shenjiagou Village, and other places. Calligraphers and painters from Zhangzhou elaborated on their creative ideas and ideological conceptions from the aspects of brushwork, calligraphy, chapter method, and ink method in the discussion, which attracted the great interest of the members of the Mulei County Book Association.
"The arrival of many famous calligraphers and painters in Zhangzhou has benefited our local calligraphy and painting lovers in Mulei a lot!" Wang Xuzhong, chairman of the Mulei County Book Association, said that at present, Mulei County does not have a member of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, and hopes to improve the artistic standard and achieve a "breakthrough of zero" by means of exchanges with famous calligraphers and painters in Zhangzhou.
"Interest in calligraphy and painting should be cultivated from an early age." In the summer of 2021, under the organization of the Zhangzhou Branch Headquarters, the first "Little Calligraphers and Painters" centralized public welfare training class was held at the Mulei County Youth Activity Center, with a total of more than 60 primary school students participating, including 40 ethnic minority students, and the training fees, consumables, and activity expenses of the trainees were all spent from the aid funds in Xinjiang.
"In a few days, it will be the New Year, and I am going to write a few pairs of Spring Festival couplets to send to the villagers and paste them on the door." Kazakh primary school student Yeldana participated in the "Little Calligraphers and Painters" public welfare training class last summer, learned about the beauty of calligraphy art, and soon fell in love with calligraphy.
Paper-cut prints bring a strong flavor of the year
Brush ink, spread red paper, flatten rubbing... After a while, a large red "Fu" character print was printed in the hands of jiang Aguli, an Uzbek girl, and she was happy to close her mouth. On December 28 last year, in the Uzbek Nationality Township of Mulei County, Yan Chaojun, the provincial inheritor of Zhangzhou woodblock New Year paintings, gathered with ethnic minorities to teach them to print woodblock New Year paintings on the spot, and Jiang Aguli excitedly came forward to experience it.
Zhangzhou has more than 100 intangible cultural heritage protection projects, ranking the forefront of Fujian Province, of which Zhangzhou woodblock prints are folk art that originated from the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is a national intangible cultural heritage project.
At the Mulei County Cultural Center, 30 local prints of Mulei were exhibited together with 20 Zhangzhou prints, attracting many people to come to watch and exchange. In the exhibition hall, Yan Chaojun explained in detail to the visitors the engraving materials, techniques, printmaking art and theme selection of Zhangzhou woodblock new year paintings, and exchanged views with Lu Jianli, director of the Printmaking Art Committee of the Xinjiang Artists Association, on the commonalities and differences of woodblock prints in the two places.
In the Zhangzhou Tulou Cultural Square in Shenjiagou Village, The Eastern Town of Mulei County, paper-cutting artists Gao Shaoping, Ouyang Yanjun and Zhang Zhengrong from Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, cut paper while dancing with the local ethnic minorities to dance the "intangible heritage" Mai Xi Laifu dance.
"Put on big red window flowers and get ready for the New Year." In the rapeseed ditch village of Engelberg Township, Gao Shaoping, the inheritor of paper-cutting, gave a vivid lecture to the members of the local paper-cutting association, she introduced the development and inheritance of paper-cutting, and demonstrated the creation of paper-cutting on the spot. After that, Zhangzhou paper-cutting artists went to the homes of ethnic minorities to interact, demonstrating paper-cutting and pasting window flowers on the spot. Local people came together, marveled at the artists' clever hands, and joined the ranks of window flowers with smiles to celebrate the upcoming New Year.
"It's almost the New Year, so I put these exquisite window flowers on the windows and enjoy the New Year with my family." Ottoman, a 75-year-old veteran Uighur party member, said happily.
Lin Lipeng said that in addition to paper-cutting and woodblock new year paintings, the cultural run-xinjiang activity also held a series of exhibitions and creative skills such as cotton painting, daffodil carving, tea culture, etc., opened special lectures, and carried out cultural activities such as signing ceremonies for intangible cultural heritage cooperation.
"Classroom on the Cloud" conveys the teaching concept
A few days ago, Zhangzhou City launched the "Focus on Core Literacy, Create a Science and Fun Golden Lesson" education and teaching open activities. 4,500 kilometers away, the Fujian Aid Xinjiang Zhangzhou Branch Headquarters and the Mulei County Education Bureau organized 500 teachers from Mulei County to participate in the "cloud classroom" model to observe classroom teaching, discuss classroom teaching strategies, participate in discipline lectures and other activities.
The classroom teaching demonstrations of various disciplines for two consecutive days convey advanced teaching concepts and provide teaching examples for reference, which benefits the teachers of Mulei a lot.
"In this training, Fujian experts prepared a rich and nutritious spiritual feast for us, from observation and teaching to special lectures, which allowed us to open our eyes without leaving home, broaden our teaching horizons, and also find our own shortcomings, pointing out the direction for future professional growth." Du Caihong, the state-level discipline leader of the third primary school in Mulei County, said.
Over the years, Zhangzhou City has been providing counterpart assistance to the education of Mulei and promoting the development of Mulei education. Recently, as the only undergraduate university in Zhangzhou, the Social Cooperation Office of Minnan Normal University signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Mulei Education Bureau.
Chen Zhihong, director of the Social Cooperation Department of Minnan Normal University, said that in the future, relevant experts will be organized to give guidance to schools under the jurisdiction of Mulei County from time to time, promote the high-quality and balanced development of the level of basic education schools, coordinate the selection of outstanding college students to Participate in the practical study of basic education work in Mulei County, give play to the advantages of talent training and training such as the provincial basic education teacher training base of Minnan Normal University, and actively carry out the training of teachers in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens and continuing education for Mulei County, so as to promote the steady improvement of the quality of teachers in basic education.
It is understood that in the past two years, the Zhangzhou branch headquarters has vigorously implemented the cultural project of benefiting the people, and has successively built 13 cultural and sports facilities such as the Jiulongjiang Cultural Park, the Poplar Spirit Exhibition Hall, the Patriotic Education Base, and the Comprehensive Sports Center, so that the people can enjoy a rich and colorful cultural and sports life at their doorstep. At the same time, we will strengthen cooperation and co-construction, focusing on promoting the signing of cooperation and co-construction agreements between the Zhangzhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and the Propaganda Department of the Mulei County CPC Committee, the Zhangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Mulei County Cultural and Tourism Bureau, the Social Cooperation Office of Minnan Normal University and the Mulei County Education Bureau, the Fujian Daily Zhangzhou Reporter Station and the Mulei County Rong Media Center.
"The series of cultural activities is like a dialogue between Zhangzhou daffodils and mulei poplar trees, blending into a song of the nation." Lin Lipeng said: When planning the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" project to aid Xinjiang, the Zhangzhou branch headquarters has taken cultural projects as the top priority, and has arranged projects such as the improvement of cultural infrastructure in Mulei County, the construction of cultural activity rooms at the township and village level, and the inheritance of rural culture in the fields of exchanges and blending, rural revitalization and construction, and cultural education, so as to ensure that the construction of the project has a financial guarantee and that the cultural development of Xinjiang shows a trend of "multi-point flowering."