Tiger culture is rich and colorful, from words, language, poetry to a wider range of folk tales, myths and legends, children's songs and ballads, etc., the image of the tiger is everywhere and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. With the advent of the Year of the Tiger, many non-hereditary inheritors and enthusiasts in Shanghai have also created many works of "tiger elements", such as paper-cutting in the Year of the Tiger, sachets of the cute tiger, face sculpture tigers, bamboo carved tigers... Let's feast our eyes
Woodblock watermarking technique
Year of the Tiger Book Ticket
▲ Woodblock watermark Year of the Tiger Book Ticket A
▲ Woodblock watermark He Xiangning Tiger
Since its inception in 1900, Duo Yun Xuan has inherited the traditional technique of woodblock watermarking. For more than 120 years, Duo Yunxuan has developed the technique of woodblock watermarking into a re-creation art that integrates painting, engraving and printing.
Peking Opera , A Tiger
▲ Stills "Seven Langs and Eight Tigers Break Into Youzhou" Xi Zhonglu as Yang Yansi
▲ Backstage photo "Seven Lang Eight Tigers Break into Youzhou" Xi Zhonglu as Yang Yansi
Shanghai Peking Opera Theater stills "Qilang Eight Tigers Break into Youzhou", Xi Zhonglu as Yang Yansi, the face of "Qilang" in this play is quite distinctive, the "tiger" character sketched in the middle of the forehead is called "a tiger", indicating the character's brave and mighty personality characteristics, coupled with the decoration of wearing a feather on the head, making the character image more plump, such as the hungry tiger pounced, giving the audience a strong visual impact.
Face Sculpture Tiger Baby
▲ "Tiger Baby" Tang Jian
▲ "Meng" Tiger Tang Jian
Shanghai noodle sculpture with Shanghai style has a history of more than 100 years since its establishment in the late Qing Dynasty. There are many characters, grand scenes, realistic images, and sculptural effects, which are the four aesthetic characteristics of Haipai face sculpture. The work "Tiger Baby" refers to the style of folk tiger head shoes, with bright colors and strong contrasts, and the shape is completed in one go.
Decoupage
▲ "Ai Hu" Xi Xiaoqin
▲ "Tiger on the Mountain" Xi Xiaoqin
"Ai Hu" is decorated by Ai Ye and calamus, a tiger full of folk aesthetic taste to ward off evil spirits, with its head held high, shaking its head and shaking its tail to welcome the upcoming New Year of Nongyin. "The Tiger on the Mountain" is a tiger that looks back and roars with peonies, coins and bats, and strides with its spirits full of spirits, as if it is patrolling the mountains and forests.
Lu's Heart Fist Tiger Shape
▲ Lu's heart heart fist tiger shape
▲ Yu Jiang, the municipal inheritor of Lu's Xinyi Fist, demonstrated the tiger fluttering handle in the tiger momentum
Lu's Heart Fist, commonly known as the "Ten Shapes" of Shanghainese, takes the meaning of ten kinds of animals: chickens, harriers, swallows, eagles, tigers, horses, bears, snakes, monkeys, dragons, according to different human forms, choose different movements to teach learning. The tiger is the king of the mountains and forests, the tiger shape in the heart fist has the courage to pounce on food, corresponding to the person in the shape of the "eye", the fist is not broken in the five unbroken, the eyes in the outer five elements belong to the wood, glaring at the eyes, staring upwards.
Xu Xingcao weaving
▲ "Straw Cartoon Tiger"
Xuxing grass weaving has a history of more than 1,000 years, Xuxing yellow grass color is elegant, the texture is smooth and tough, and can be dyed, with it to weave the texture of the handicraft is clear, fine and symmetrical, tight and degreed, smooth and smooth, becoming a famous product. The work "Straw Cartoon Tiger" is based on plain yellow grass, with brown, brown and red yellow grass, and the longitude and latitude need to be constantly woven, and finally outline the image of a thick straw tiger.
Haipai jade carving
▲ "Mountain Jun Night Patrol Map" Yuan Yao
▲ "Gathering Momentum" Huang Hanyong
Haipai jade carving is a faction of jade carving art style in the central area of Shanghai. In ancient times, the tiger was the length of the mountain beast, "Mountain King Night Patrol Map" is a 9.5×4.8×5 cm yellow and green emerald, shaped like a mountain, 12 ancient pines towering in the mountains, more than 130 tigers, each brown, yellow and white, with different postures, the smallest tiger's face is only 1mm wide. "Gathering Momentum" is a fierce tiger, creeping forward with a roar, quietly storing its strength in the tiger's claws, as if it is accumulating all its strength and courage, ready to leap forward at any time.
Bamboo carvings
▲ Year of the Tiger bamboo carving "Fuhu Luohan" vertical version
▲ Detailed drawing of the bamboo carving "Fuhu Luohan" in the Year of the Tiger
Jiading bamboo carving originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list in 2006. Jiading literati bamboo carving unique square circle knife method (square knife straight into, round knife horizontal batch) can not only restore the pen and ink charm of calligraphy and painting works, but also strengthen the bone strength of pen and ink lines, so it is deeply loved by calligraphy and painting artists and literati.
Porcelain engraving
Sanlin porcelain engraving "Tiger Tiger Shengwei" Zhang Zongxian
Porcelain carving was born in the Ming Dynasty, prevalent in the late Qing Dynasty, is a kind of arts and crafts products that use knives to carve books and paintings on plain porcelain porcelain made of glaze firing. When it is made, the dot line is carved with the tip of the knife, the notch is filled with ink or color, and then waxed. The composition of the work is fresh, the lines are smooth, and the portrayal image is vivid, which not only maintains the style of traditional calligraphy and painting, but also has a crystal smooth porcelain effect.
Haipai purple sand art
Haipai purple sand art is an art form that has emerged and matured in shanghai since the end of the 19th century, integrating purple sand modeling, calligraphy and painting engraving and poetry inscriptions. Since the middle of the last century, under the impetus of Wu Hufan, Liu Haisu, Tang Yun, Cheng Shifa and others, purple sand artists have begun to produce purple sand works that reflect traditional culture and the tastes of literati, marking the maturity of Haipai purple sand art. As a result, Haipai purple sand art got rid of the traditional purple sand art marked by a single shape.
It's like a wheat straw painting
▲ It is really like the wheat straw painting "Playing in the Water" Yao Yijia
Wheat straw painting, a kind of Chinese folk clip painting, is a folk art that uses wheat straw as raw material, through cutting, collage, burning and other processes, according to the luster, color and texture of the wheat straw itself. Yao Yijia, the inheritor of wheat straw painting in Putuo District, while inheriting the characteristics of wheat straw painting techniques, integrates embroidery and ink painting techniques into it, so it enhances the luster and level of the work, and has a strong three-dimensional sense and is quite distinctive.
The technique of making mud in the spring
The Year of the Tiger is printed in shape
The portrait seal is one of the forms of expression of the art seal, and the portrait seal with the theme of the zodiac as the theme is a favorite creative element of the seal engraving artists in history. The Tiger Year Portrait printed under the engraving knife of the seal engraver has a variety of forms of expression. The Xiao-shaped seal of the Year of the Tiger - Ruihu is auspicious, with a vivid and simple rhyme, with strong Chinese national characteristics.
Crochet weaving technique
▲ "Tiger Treasure" mascot
Carefully designed and produced by the Xinzhuang crochet knitting team, it lasted 1 month. The thread used in the whole work is baby cotton, and the team has repeatedly matched and compared, selected more than 20 kinds of colors, and used braid needles, short needles, medium and long needles, long needles, half-sided short needles, date needles, gold wire dense date needles, inner crochet needles, outer crochet needles, shrimp knot needles and other stitching methods to make the work more dynamic visual experience. The hand-knitting technique of a needle and a thread presents the exquisite form of "Tiger Treasure", which means auspicious health, happiness and joy.
Luo Jing cross flower picking technique
▲ Luojing Cross Pick Flower (Year of the Tiger Sachet) Zheng Xiaorong in Baoshan District
The main body of the sachet is made by using the Luojing Cross Flower Picking Technique, a municipal intangible cultural heritage project in Baoshan District, and is composed of tiger hieroglyphs on one side. The tiger symbolizes bravery and fearlessness. The other side is composed of a combination of traditional independent patterns of cross-picked flowers, which symbolizes the four-way exchange of wealth. The tassel in the Chinese knot is also called the tassel, which means that there is no worry about food and clothing.
Sachet making technique
▲Tiger head sachet Chen Xingzhi
▲Tiger head sachet
The custom of wearing sachets can be traced back to the pre-Qin Dynasty. Nowadays, in addition to the effects of decoration, incense retention, health maintenance, etc., the sachet is also a good product full of cultural atmosphere. Minhang District sachet making technology is specially sewn for the Year of the Tiger, the new sachet "Tiger Head Tiger Brain", the traditional round fan shaped tiger ear is changed to a triangle, highlighting the dexterity and cuteness of the "big cat", the forehead "King" character and two exposed tiger teeth, but also highlights the majesty of the king of the forest.
Woodblock prints of the elementary school yard
▲Small school yard woodblock print Fuhu diagram
▲Small school yard woodblock print Double Blessing Diagram
The picture of Fuhu is inscribed with "Guanju Yipin" and "Daizi Shangchao". The tiger is the "king of the beasts", referring to "a big member of the one pin". The protagonist in the painting is a tiger shape of a father and a son, which also has the meaning of "looking forward to the son of Jackie Chan". The painting is hand-overprinted by a traditional woodcut engraving house, with flowers and tigers on the open face supplemented by hand-applied coloring. Tiger and "fu" and "rich" harmonic sounds, meaning good luck linmen, rich and prosperous door. The two cute little tigers in the Double Blessing Diagram mean "Double Blessing".
Medicinal cloth printing and dyeing techniques
Tiger head pillow
Medicinal spot cloth is a kind of traditional blue dyeing fabric, formerly known as gray valerian, commonly known as watering flower cloth, medicinal spot cloth, also known as blue printed cloth, it has a history of nearly a thousand years, rich patterns, beautiful meaning, is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient working people. On the occasion of the Year of the Tiger, the work Tiger Tiger Shengwei Pillow is to dye a cute tiger head pillow using the traditional medicine patch cloth process.
pyrography
Branding painting, also known as branding, hot painting, fire stroke painting, is a soldering iron ghostwriter with a temperature of 300 to 800 degrees Celsius, using the principle of carbonization, without applying any pigments, taking its corresponding temperature on bamboo, rice paper, silk, etc. to hook, rub, point, bake, grind and other forms of techniques and means of expression. In the Qingpu area, the themes of the paintings are widely taken from the ancient bridges, traditional stories, folk culture, etc. of Qiaoxiang, and they come alive.
Source: Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center
Editor: Gao Xueting