In mainland folk, gourds are known as "treasure gourds", gourds have always been regarded as mascots, and there are many folk tales with gourds as the theme. In ancient times, people liked to paint poems on gourds, and the art of carving and decorating gourds was called "gourd art".
Jian'an Town, Dongliao County, southwest of Jilin Province, is the place where the Westbound Changbai Mountain Range connects with the Western Plain of Jilin Province, with flat terrain, fertile black soil, and climatic conditions that are very suitable for gourd growth. Here, gourds are planted in front of and behind the houses of every house, and the resulting Dongliao gourd paintings are even more famous.
On February 9, 2022, the "Colorful Shenzhou" Cultural Exhibition Area of Beijing News Center ushered in Jilin Theme Day, showing the great beauty of Jilin to 1,700 non-registered journalists and domestic and foreign guests in Beijing News Center. In the exhibition area, Zhao Wenxiu, a folk artist of gourd carving in Jilin Province and the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Jilin Province, also came here with his gourd paintings.
In the interactive area of "Cultural Fun", the exhibition area of Dongliao gourd painting of intangible cultural heritage in Jilin Province, the people who came to experience it were making gourd paintings
At the event site, a "cute looking" gourd was placed on the spot, as long as you want, you can get a gourd painting of your own through your own handmade under the guidance of the teacher. Of course, if you are not confident enough, you can also let the teacher do the work for you according to your "ideas".
After the "processing" of the on-site teacher, in just a few minutes, one "cute-looking" gourd will become a beautiful gourd painting, which is surprising and shocking.
According to the reporter of China Jilin Network, the biggest feature of gourd painting is painting and fire painting. Painting is to paint on the gourd with bright colors, so that the color and the shape and size of the gourd itself are unified, and then create different types of gourd paintings.
As for fire painting, it is a bit complicated to say. The "inspiration" for the gourd's fire braising comes from the iron braze used to draw the fire on the northeast fire. "The iron shovel was burned red by the charcoal fire, it looked like a 'paintbrush', and the gourd was 'a painting', and the lines didn't come out?" This is actually a gourd painting. Zhao Wenxiu introduced. After the hot painting technique is generated, you can mix all kinds of oil paints evenly, apply colors according to the figure, apply them on the gourd surface, and then carry out 'hot scalding', and put the oil paint 'hot' into the gourd skin meat, so that the color penetrates into it, and does not hurt the gourd meat, and the painting pattern is clear and three-dimensional. This is an innovation in gourd painting. ”
In front of the Dongliao gourd painting exhibition area, the experiencers are creating on the gourd
Through the wisdom and painstaking efforts of several generations of artists, Dongliao gourd paintings have injected the living customs of ordinary people and local folk culture elements in different periods, forming an artistic expression with a strong regional style. The creators of gourd painting use artistic techniques such as painted painting, fire painting (modern people use electricity instead of fire), knife carving, etc., to create mascots with vivid images and far-reaching meanings as ornaments and festival cultural ornaments, which have strong folk culture research value. Nowadays, dongliao gourd painting has been selected into the list of intangible cultural heritage protection in Jilin Province.
"I hope that with the help of the east wind of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, we can show the charm of our Jilin Dongliao gourd paintings to the people of the whole country, so that more people can understand our great beauty jilin!" Zhao Wenxiu said.
China Jilin Network special Beijing reporting group Yue Ming Yu Yang / text
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