In Gaomi, there is a woodblock New Year painting inheritor full of family and country feelings, he has always adhered to the creation of woodblock New Year paintings, for decades he has poured all his energy into the study, research and inheritance of woodblock New Year paintings, and kept a precious cultural memory for folk art, he is Li Lianzhong.
Li Lianzhong is the ninth generation inheritor of the "New City Li Ji Woodblock Print". Every day, in addition to eating and sleeping, the only thing the old man has to do is to sit at the table and engrave. The depiction version is a craft passed down from generation to generation by Li Lianzhong's family. In Li Lianzhong's home, the walls of the entire south house are covered with woodblock prints of different themes. The large and small woodblocks placed on the table and in the window, or complete or broken, record the history of the li family's generations of woodblock prints.
Influenced by his family environment, Li Lianzhong has been engaged in woodblock prints since he was a teenager. He told reporters that woodblock new year paintings from drawing ink line drafts to stickers, standing boards, and engraving boards to setting up chromatic, engraving chromatic plates, and printing, at least thirteen processes are required, of which carving is hard work, and every knife and painting is hard.
Day after day of carving, Li Lianzhong's fingers grind out calluses, he also mastered the skill of making woodblock New Year paintings, the carved version of the line is smooth, the texture is fine, the character expression is rich, lifelike, very popular, the works sell well everywhere, his "Lian Nian Yu", "Eight Immortals", "Three Kingdoms Characters" and so on are also collected by some art museums, museums and woodblock New Year painting enthusiasts. Later, with the changes of the times and the rapid development of society, the traditional traditional culture gradually changed, hand-printed woodblock prints gradually disappeared from the market, many old craftsmen have changed their professions, but Li Lianzhong has always adhered to the "position" of woodblock prints, and does not forget to search for and reproduce the woodblocks of his ancestors while working to support his family.
In order to reproduce the ancestral skills on a piece of woodblock, Li Lianzhong went through a large number of materials, visited the old artists and immersed himself in creation, planning to re-"reproduce" the lost traditional old appearance and regain the forgotten memory.
What makes Li Lianzhong feel pleased is that with the joint efforts of the whole society, the protection of intangible cultural heritage has achieved remarkable results, and Li Lianzhong and the woodblock prints have also seen spring.
Li Lianzhong, the inheritor of woodblock New Year paintings, said: "Woodblock New Year paintings are a traditional culture, and I am the ninth generation of my family, and I have the obligation to pass it on. Now the party committee of Jiangzhuang Town attaches great importance to woodblock New Year paintings, and has set up a woodblock New Year painting half-print and half-painting inheritance base in Niejiazhuang, which is also a great support for me, and I am also determined to pass on the woodblock New Year paintings. ”
Reporter: Shan Yingying Yu Qinshui
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