The auspicious Year of the Tiger is approaching, and in The Village of Wangao, Matou Town, Tancheng County, Zhang Naicang and his grandchildren are happily admiring the colorful hanging door notes he has just made - "Tiger Welcomes the Year of Prosperity" and "Golden Tiger Welcomes the New Year". The word "tiger" hangs a door note to welcome the year of the tiger, and the tiger is powerful and vivid.
Tancheng hanging door note, also known as hanging door, door hanger, is a kind of festival day hanging on the lintel of the folk paper-cutting art, because the Spring Festival posted on the door and named, more than 1500 years of history, its colorful, meaning auspicious. Posting hanging door notes during the Spring Festival as an auspicious omen for the New Year not only shows the people's good wishes for the traditional Spring Festival and happy life, but also becomes a cultural symbol of the traditional Spring Festival in Lunan and northern Jiangsu.
Tancheng hangs a door note was included in the intangible cultural heritage of Shandong Province, and Zhang Naicang of Wangao village in Matou Town is the seventh generation of descendants, 63 years old this year. He began to learn art at the age of 13 and worked for 50 years. On the basis of drawing on the production experience of the older generation of artists, Zhang Naicang has made bold innovations in the process, combined with the use of text to adapt to the new era, and customized according to personal needs to present characteristics, through painting, cutting, chiseling, set, inlay, paste and other processes color-by-color inlay, made into a colorful, diverse pattern, beautiful composition, different styles of chromatic door notes, with high aesthetic taste and collection value.
Photo by Gao Jun