Recently, the peasant painting works created by Qingzhou City peasant painters Song Xiao and Min Jiang Quanqing, "Opening the Door and Welcoming Spring", and Tang Xiumei's "Rest Assured That Grapes Enter Ten Thousand Homes" were selected as "New Life, New Fashion, New Year Painting" - our well-off life theme art works creation collection activity. The event was sponsored by the Literature and Art Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, the Second Bureau of the Central Civilization Office, the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the China Artists Association, and the Chinese Folk Writers Association.
Qingzhou is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese peasant painting. In recent years, Qingzhou attaches great importance to the construction and cultivation of the team of peasant painting talents, and through holding peasant painting training classes, peasant painting exhibitions, and taking the initiative to go out to participate in the exhibition, multi-level and multi-form training of peasant painting talents, expand the talent team, improve the level of talent creation, and help the creative transformation and innovative development of Qingzhou peasant painting art.
At present, 1 peasant painter in Qingzhou has been rated as "National Top Ten Peasant Painters", 12 have joined the Chinese Folk Writers Association, 6 have been hired by the Shandong Painting Institute as peasant painting creators, and more than 60 have joined the provincial peasant painting organization. With the help of Qingzhou's rich local tourism resources, through the integration of culture and tourism, derivatives development, network sales and other forms of actively explore the sales market, to achieve the transformation of artistic value to economic value, the annual creation of farmers paintings nearly 10,000 paintings, the annual transaction volume of calligraphy and painting commodities more than 40 million yuan. Give full play to the propaganda role of peasant paintings in spiritual civilization, and successively create a number of series of works such as "Socialist Core Values", "Changing Customs and Customs", "Moral And Legal System", "Beautiful Countryside", "Urban-Rural Integration", "Poverty Alleviation", etc., and concentrated on creating 40-meter-long scrolls such as "Changes in China's Rural Areas in the Forty Years of Reform and Opening Up". In the construction of beautiful and livable villages, some peasant painters were invited to paint wall paintings and decorated urban and rural streets in a form that they liked to hear, which not only carried forward the main theme, but also improved the economic income of peasant painting talents and realized the economic value of peasant paintings. (Reported by Lu Yu, client reporter of Dazhong Daily)