Shanghai: Celebrating the New Year

Original title: Shanghai: Appreciation of the New Year Paintings over the New Year

"Isn't this the New Year painting from our hometown?" What a familiar feeling, that's how we were there for the New Year! At the scene of the "Appreciation of New Year Paintings over the New Year" exhibition at the Shanghai Qunyi Museum, Yue Dongliang excitedly pointed to a New Year painting from Henan, "Every Day Celebrates the New Year", and told reporters. In the painting, three generations of a family sit around making dumplings and boiling dumplings, kittens and puppies lying leisurely on the side, fruit plates on the table, and red Chinese knots, fu characters and the god of wealth hanging on the walls... Yue Dongliang, from his hometown of Anyang, Henan, is engaged in security work in a community in Xuhui District, Shanghai, and because of the epidemic, he chose to celebrate the New Year in Shanghai this year, and the New Year paintings in his hometown comforted his homesickness.

"Ulan Pastoral Riding on Horseback" plays the horse's head and sings through the wilderness grassland; miaoxiang winding mountain roads under the shade of mangrove trees lead to the road to prosperity; golden dolls on the golden land, the joy of the new socialist countryside presents a harvest; the news of peach red willow green bringing spring; the innovative version of "Flying Tigers Good Kung Fu" stepping on the modern beat to send blessings to home; "Blossoming Chinese Dream" depicts the beauty of the Flower Expo; a group of cute Winter Olympic dolls are playing freely on the ice... On January 25th, the National New Year Painting Shanghai Joint Exhibition with the theme of "Appreciating the New Year Paintings over the New Year" was opened at the Shanghai Mass Art Museum, attracting many audiences.

"Among the New Year paintings and peasant paintings collected from all over the country, 282 excellent works were selected for display. These paintings reflect the daily life of farmers, major events in society, and the traditional way of celebrating the New Year. Chen Di, the project leader of the Shanghai Qunyi Museum, told reporters that the works on display are divided into three sections: "Spring Colors Full of Garden", "Songs of the Times" and "Prosperous And Prosperous Year", and are displayed synchronously on the digital platform of the Shanghai Mass Art Museum "With Sound and Vision", "hoping to let warm New Year customs be passed on in the New Year paintings and let the festive atmosphere stretch."

Curator Wang Nanming introduced that the overall layout was carried out inside and outside the exhibition hall, from the main visual poster to the main visual sculpture of the New Year, the three-dimensional screen of the Year of the Tiger, the red wall, the white mirror frame, and the colorful New Year paintings with regional characteristics, creating a rich festival cultural atmosphere.

Combined with this exhibition, the Shanghai exhibition area simultaneously launched a wealth of exhibitions and experience activities. The traditional culture, scientific knowledge and derivatives of the zodiac on the first floor of the exhibition hall are dazzling; the "White Box Exhibition Hall" on the second floor selects the works of more than 200 designers at home and abroad to interpret the Chinese zodiac in the eyes of modern people; the "Reunion Photo Gallery" on the third floor is full of Jiangnan style, attracting many audiences to leave family portraits of the New Year. Wu Penghong, director of the Shanghai Municipal Mass Art Museum, introduced that during the Spring Festival, there will also be a welcome appreciation of Chinese and Western music, lectures on traditional folk customs, a talk show in the Year of the Tiger, and a traditional festival intangible cultural heritage handicraft experience activity such as guessing lantern riddles.

It is reported that the exhibition will last until February 25.

(Reporter Yan Weiqi) (Yan Weiqi)

(Guangming Daily)