Source: China News Network
Xiangyang, February 11 (Xinhua) -- Chen Hongbin, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Hubei Laohekou woodblock painting, recently used woodblock painting techniques to carve out "ice piers" and "snow rongrong" to cheer for athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Chen Hongbin is carving woodblock New Year paintings "Ice Pier" and "Snow Rongrong" Photo by Li Wen
Chen Hongbin introduced that a woodblock New Year painting needs to go through multiple processes from wood panel selection, plate making, creation, plastering, engraving, printing and so on. Carving needs to be able to sit still, meditate and delicately, and each knife must not be sloppy in the slightest. Its engraving methods are all using "steep knife vertical line", that is, when the knife is used, the knife body is steep and perpendicular to the layout, and the carved line is straight up and down, up and down iso-width. No matter how many years of painting is printed, no matter how much the layout is worn, the lines will still not be out of shape.
"After the Winter Olympics, if there are departments and organizations willing to collect, as long as they are not used for commercial speculation, I will donate them free of charge." On February 11, Chen Hongbin said in an interview with reporters.
Chen Hongbin shows the "ice pier" and "snow rongrong" carved out with woodblock New Year painting techniques, photographed by Li Wen
According to the relevant person in charge of the Xiangyang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Old Hekou Woodblock New Year Painting entered the list of intangible cultural heritage of Hubei Province in 2007. In 2011, the Old River Estuary woodblock print was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list. Chen Yiwen (who died in 2019), the representative figure of the Old River Estuary woodblock print, was selected as the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project. As the fifth generation of the old Hekou woodblock prints, Chen Hongbin mastered all the essentials of carving woodblock prints from his grandfather Chen Yiwen. (End)