Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen reported from Beijing
As soon as you walk into the Art Museum of China and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, you will be attracted by the installation landscape at the door. The installation is called "From Altay to Beijing", which is specially designed for the Winter Olympics and applauds the Beijing Winter Olympics.
From Altay to Beijing
The China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, located in the heart of the Olympic Park, just opened on February 5, the second day of the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On February 10, the cover reporter walked into the China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum to take everyone to appreciate the charm of the opening exhibition "Chinese Treasures".
Installation landscape "From Altay to Beijing" cheered for the Beijing Winter Olympics
The installation landscape consists of two parts, one side is a ski made of wooden boards, fur, etc., and on the other side are skates made of metal, on which athletes of various winter sports stand. From Altay to Beijing, this time and space spans tens of thousands of years. "From Altay to Beijing" reflects the long history and culture of the Chinese nation in ice and snow, and has an inevitable connection with the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In 2005, a well-preserved painted rock painting was found in the Altay region of Xinjiang in the mainland, clearly recording the scene of ancient ancestors pedaling skis, holding a single pole, chasing prey, according to relevant studies at home and abroad, its drawing time is about the late Paleolithic period, 10,000 years or earlier, and compared with the previous study of Sweden's 4500 years, Norway's at least 5000 years, and Russia's 8000 years of skiing history, Altay has become the earliest origin of human skiing.
According to Han Ziyong, director of the National Arts and Crafts Museum of China, "From Altay to Beijing" is also the first exhibit of the museum" "To help the Winter Olympics, we designed the Winter Olympics-themed installation landscape "From Altay to Beijing" at the entrance of the exhibition hall. This is our first exhibit, hoping to applaud the Beijing Winter Olympics. ”
Not only the installation art, but also the artists from the Altay region, bringing the artistic atmosphere of the origin of skiing to the visitors. Alson Bahati is a musician in the Altay region and once circled a handful of fans on the "Chinese Music Ceremony" program with the super skills of the female voice Humai. In the live exhibition of the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, she performed the traditional Kazakh musical instrument Kubuzi for everyone, and also showed her Humai stunt, which made people addicted.
Eight major sections display the art of craftsmanship and intangible cultural heritage Jiajiang New Year paintings made a surprise appearance
After nearly three years of construction, the new China Arts and Crafts Museum and the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum reopened the door the day after the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. The museum is located on the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, the west side is close to the Olympic Forest Park, adjacent to a number of large-scale national venues, the project construction area of 91,126 square meters, a total of six floors above the ground. The opening exhibition "Treasures of China" and the venue complement each other perfectly, and are an important cultural event during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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"Chinese Treasures" is divided into eight sections, covering arts and crafts, guqin, traditional musical instruments, traditional art, opera, gold stone seal carving and extension, traditional New Year paintings, opera performances and academic reports in eight parts, a total of 1298 treasures are exhibited, 80% is the first time to the public exhibition, most of the exhibits are the treasures accumulated by the China Academy of Arts for 70 years.
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The reporter was pleasantly surprised to see the Mianzhu New Year painting from Sichuan in the "Shenzhou Yingchun" section, that is, the part of the traditional New Year painting.
New Year paintings are "encyclopedias" containing Tibetan Chinese folk culture, and by the Qing Dynasty, the themes of New Year paintings became increasingly rich and well-made, forming many production centers, such as Tianjin Yangliuqing, Sichuan Mianzhu, Jiangsu Suzhou Taohuawu, Henan Kaifeng Zhuxian Town, etc.
Jiajiang New Year Painting
At this exhibition, the reporter found a very Sichuan characteristics of the Jiajiang New Year painting "Carp Jumping Dragon Gate". The picture of this New Year painting is printed with the words "Dong Daxingrong", which means that this is an artistic treasure during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Jiajiang New Year painting adopts the ancient wooden board overprinting technique, hand-painted by folk artists, and then paste the drawing on the wooden board, carved by the engraver to print the plate, from shallow to deep gradually overprinted, a New Year painting usually has to be printed five or six times, and some New Year paintings are overprinted as many as seven or eight times. This was the most advanced color printing technique in the world at that time, with a unique and strong artistic style.
According to the records, the Jiajiang Nian painting began in the Ming Dynasty, and around the time of the Ming Dynasty Wanli and the Apocalypse, there were Nian painting workshops in jiajiang. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, jiajiang new year painting gradually prospered, together with mianzhu new year painting and Liang Pingnian painting, called "Sichuan three major new year paintings". During the Qianlong period, workshops such as "Dong Daxingrongji" and "Li Hongfa" specially printed New Year paintings. "Dong Daxingrong", "Dong Daxingfa" and several other leading workshops, all year round are printing New Year paintings, the products are not only best-selling in Yunguichuan, but also exported to Southeast Asian countries.