3D floral installation designed by the Wan brothers.
Hu Qinglin
"Take you around the Guangzhou CBD 300 years ago" exhibition. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library
In recent years, Cantonese culture and intangible cultural heritage have increasingly become the source of inspiration for cultural tourism creators, bringing them a steady stream of creativity and wonderful works, and also allowing people to understand the traditional culture of Canton in more ways and understand the beauty of traditional crafts in non-genetic inheritance. These creators strive to integrate traditional memory with the aesthetics of modern life, and from their stories, works and brushstrokes, we can also see the deep love of these creators for Cantonese culture.
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Wan Brothers
The Wan brothers are twin brothers, are well-known 3D visual artists in China, born in Guangzhou, they are full of fantasy, the pursuit of creativity, has been immersed in the creation of illusion art.
Wan Brothers: Designed Miss Xiguan of Guangzhou as a tide play ornament
The Wan brothers are twin brothers, but also a well-known 3D visual artist in China, born in Guangzhou, they will not lack the color of Cantonese culture in their works. If you go to Fuxue West Street near Beijing Road in Guangzhou, you can see the 3D murals of the Wan Brothers. This is a group of temple fair-themed murals, lively temple fairs, crowds of people, joyous, all kinds of programs, festive red, dazzling yellow, running people, colorful Cantonese opera workshop, banging gongs and drums, jumping on the wall, lion dance waving sleeves, ready to come out, beautiful women like clouds, people linger.
The Wan brothers also designed Miss Xiguan in Guangzhou as a tide play ornament: a miss Xiguan who blows a ball, she blows the golden dots on her body into a balloon, and under the action of a breath and a inhalation, she is unconsciously blown fat by the balloon and becomes Miss Watermelon, implying the relativity of the existence of things, influencing each other and constantly changing in interaction, so as to coexist harmoniously. The smooth and smooth figure will be the watermelon miss delicate roundness reflected vividly, the color collocation also makes the ornaments proud and cute, the signature action has a deep meaning, every detail of the watermelon miss ornaments have been considered and pondered, interesting and cute cultural and creative products, Wan's brothers are dedicated to creating miss watermelon, new forms, unchanged Xiguan story. During the Spring Festival, Miss Watermelon is doing an exhibition in the Xinguang community, and interested friends can go to meet this legendary goddess for a while.
At the beginning of the new year, 3D visual artists Wan Shi Brothers designed a 3D floral installation at the entrance of the Chengguanghui Haizhu Store. This work is the first-floor punch card work of the theme activity of "Chengguang Chao Cafe Hui • New Year Art Exhibition". The work adopts the 3D ground painting visual plus three-dimensional space (suspension part) method to achieve the good wishes of the New Year to open up a new pattern.
With the graduation design of "Charcoal-grilled Lao guang", he broke through the hall; representative comic works include "Charcoal-grilled Laoguang" and "Charcoal-grilled Hong Kong Flavor". His IP image of "Ci Mushroom Boy" is very popular.
Hu Qinglin: Counting the details of the traditional New Year, using works to reproduce the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival
"Charcoal-grilled Lao Guang" is Hu Qinglin's nickname, creating a cute image of a "ghost" ci mushroom boy to record the lifestyle of the Greater Bay Area. Speaking of "New Year", the experience of living in the Xiguan House in his childhood could not help but emerge: "In the past, every year on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year, Grandpa would write the word 'sell lazy' and hang on the lazyest child of the year, and he would have to Chinese New Year's Eve before he was allowed to take it down. ”
There is a practice of "selling laziness" in Cantonese New Year customs, and cantonese has a saying: "Selling laziness!" Sold until the 30th night of the year". Tanburn Lao Guang, who has been a bully since childhood, naturally never has such a "treatment". "At that time, we lived in the Xiguan House, and there were many neighbors in the neighborhood, and if we hung this sign on our bodies, even children would feel embarrassed." But he understands Grandpa's approach, "In fact, Grandpa is to motivate children to get rid of lazy habits and wish children a diligent new year."
The most fragrant "New Year's taste" should be "Chinese New Year's Eve meal", not only to enjoy the process of eating is reunion, but more importantly, when preparing this table reunion dinner, everyone should "reunite". The reporter noted that this year, there is a "Map of People Cooking Abalone in Guangfu Province" in Tanju Laoguang, and the pictures of "burning cannon battles" and "lion dances" have a festive atmosphere for the New Year.
"When I was a child living in Xiguan, Chinese New Year's Eve afternoon that day, every household began to prepare Chinese New Year's Eve meals for Chinese New Year's Eve, which was really the time when the whole family was mobilized." "The idea and inspiration for the abalone diagram really came from the memory of the 'whole process of cooking abalone for the whole family'. The whole process of boiling abalone takes 6 days and 6 nights, depending on the heat, changing the water, especially the 2 days of watching the heat, which needs to be rotated and stared at sleeplessly. ”
For the New Year's event, "when I was a child, I was particularly happy to go to the flower market, because there were many toy stalls in the flower market at that time, and at that time, when I asked to buy toys, most of the adults would respond to their needs." "This year, there is no traditional flower market, so I will write my own Spring Festival, and then frame the seal carved by one party, and enjoy myself in another way." Recently, there has been a lot of work in this period, and only the first and second days of the Chinese New Year have given themselves a holiday. This year is the Year of the Tiger, and some cute tiger images will also be used in comics, mainly used in work, such as emojis designed for customers. ”
Wang Daxin
Committed to the revitalization and promotion of local culture, he has published a number of "Old Guangzhou, New Tour" series of works. Gather a number of non-genetic inheritors to create the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Player" brand IP, so that traditional skills and cultural connotations can be integrated into the aesthetics of modern life.
Wang Daxin: Recreate the story of Guangzhou with an immersive exhibition, and create teaching materials to let more students understand the intangible cultural heritage
During the Spring Festival, in the outdoor square of the Children's Department of the Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library, a row of "stalls" composed of paper cartoons is neatly arranged in front of the building, which is the theme exhibition of "Taking You Around the Guangzhou CBD 300 Years Ago" sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library. Wang Daxin and the laoGuangxin tour team restored the appearance of Guangzhou 300 years ago in the form of comics, and in one "stall", children can play "pass the family" and feel the prosperous story of Guangzhou CBD 300 years ago.
Through such an exhibition, children can not only understand the story of Guangzhou's thirteen lines and foreign trade, understand the world-famous export products produced in Guangzhou, but also immerse themselves in the fun of shopping in the ancient Guangzhou CBD. Wang Daxin and his team referred to the Qing Dynasty export paintings, depicted the business situation in Guangzhou, designed the store scene, and displayed it in three-dimensional spaces such as tea shops, ceramic shops, and satin shops. The immersive scene created by the equal-scale comic allows students to understand the history of Sino-foreign trade in a relaxed visit.
Not only that, Wang Daxin also served as a lecturer at the exhibition site, telling the story of the thirteen lines for the children and training a group of small explainers. The exhibition will run until February 28, during which children in the Children's Department of the Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library can learn about the prosperous history of Guangzhou's foreign trade for hundreds of years in a relaxed way.
For Wang Daxin, in the past 2021, although due to the repeated impact of the epidemic, there are fewer such offline activities than in previous years, but it is gratifying that in the work of intangible cultural heritage, online and education and training content have increased significantly. He introduced that the influence of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Classroom" is expanding, and he and his team have also compiled some teaching materials, producing and publishing textbooks for intangible cultural heritage projects such as Guangdong embroidery, olive carving, Guangcai, and Tong sketches. Wang Daxin believes that if only non-hereditary heirs are relied upon, it will not be possible to popularize more classroom education in a short period of time. Through cooperation with non-hereditary inheritors, these teaching materials will write the experience of inheritors into the teaching materials, which will be able to train a new group of intangible cultural heritage workers, so as to promote intangible cultural heritage in more primary and secondary schools. For example, Guangcai, the teaching materials will be accompanied by some related materials, you can learn the production process of Guangcai in a short period of time, make your own works, very popular with students.
In addition, Wang Daxin also cooperated with the Post Office to launch a series of "good drama" literary creations, such as stamps, calendars, porcelain, etc. For him, what is more important is the creation and publication of the next volume of "Big Talk Guangfu". As a kind of "handheld museum and cultural lazy bag", this book interprets Guangfu culture in a simple and simple way, and interacts with fans to create a number of related cultural and creative products through crowdfunding platforms.
Cantonese culture has always been the source of inspiration for Wang Daxin's creation, and for more than ten years, it has continuously brought him new works and new forms of expression, and his love for Guangfu has become the driving force for his lifelong efforts.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xiao Yang Guo Yuling Xu Kun The image was provided by the interviewee