600 years of Beijing's old neighborhood "Enjoy the New Year painting the Big Year"

600 years of Beijing's old neighborhood "Enjoy the New Year painting the Big Year"

An innovative version of foshan wooden board New Year painting from Guangdong

Yangcheng Evening News Beijing reporter Wang Li reported: The art of New Year painting is one of the classics of Chinese folk art, pinning people's wishes for the New Year and yearning for a better life. Yesterday afternoon, sponsored by the 2022 Beijing News Center, the "New Atmosphere of the City of the Two Olympics - 2022 Chinese and Foreign Media Beijing Tour" city image feature interview activity walked into Beijing Fang in Beijing Xicheng, through various exhibitions and interesting interactive experiences related to New Year paintings, and felt the new vitality of the collision of traditional Chinese culture and new lifestyles in the atmosphere of the Integration of spring festival, ancient capital culture and the Winter Olympics.

The core architectural persuasion field of Beijing Fang is holding an exhibition of "Appreciating the New Year paintings for the New Year". According to Song Liang, the exhibition planner and assistant dean of the Institute of Cultural Heritage and Innovation of Peking University, the exhibition includes five sections: "Spring Full Homeland", "Song of the Times", "Prosperous Year", "Winter Olympics of Art Painting" and "Cultural and Creative Innovation", presenting more than 270 key New Year paintings collected and selected from the national organization. Among them, the "Art Painting Winter Olympics" section uses rabbits, one of the representatives of Beijing flavor culture, to present the various sports of the Winter Olympics, which is both vivid and unique.

The reporter saw at the exhibition site that most of the New Year paintings on display were brightly colored and the atmosphere was warm, covering a well-off life, agricultural harvest, festivals and auspiciousness, and had local characteristics. For example, the "Flying Tiger Team Good Kung Fu" innovative version of foshan wooden board New Year Painting from Guangdong presents a character imitating Huang Feihong's Foshan shadowless feet.

The exhibition also integrates scientific and technological elements, creating a new model of spatial narrative, exhibition and performance integration, audio and painting immersion, and interactive experience. For example, visitors can scan the new year painting works on the spot with their mobile phones and experience the dynamic new year paintings with the help of AR technology; the new media experience area has set up interactive devices, and visitors can participate in interesting experiences such as "Baifuku" graffiti, face recognition, and Spring Festival interaction.

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in China, a "Hundred Tigers" hanging device was specially set up at the top of the octagonal middle hall of the persuasion field, using lanterns as the carrier to present the tigers in various creative graphic designs, either cute or abstract, creating a strong Spring Festival atmosphere. The exhibition area of "Cultural Creation and Innovation" brings together the old-fashioned display stand, a number of long-established brands have introduced new ones, and innovatively designed hand-drawn maps, canvas bags, brooches and other products have both traditional cultural elements and fashion characteristics, attracting the attention of young people.

Located outside the Zhengyang Gate and the west wing of the city's central axis, adjacent to Tiananmen, Beijing Square is an important area of the 600-year-old Dashilar Historical and Cultural Block and a model for the urban renewal of Beijing's old city. According to the person in charge of Beijing Fang, Beijing Fang is centered on the century-old persuasion field, relying on historical buildings such as the former site of the Salt Industry Bank, and integrating with eight single buildings with their own characteristics to form an open block. Traditional culture and new lifestyles collide here, inspiring new vitality and becoming a trendy punch card cultural landmark that attracts young people.

(Yangtze River Daily)