A few days ago, the Central Civilization Office released the "China Good People List" in the first quarter of 2022, and Pan Yu, director of the Boli Town Cultural Station and a tutor for peasant painting, was on the list of "Dedication and Dedication".
Pan Yu, male, born in April 1963, is the director of the cultural station in Boli Town and a tutor for peasant painting. Pan Yu has been engaged in the creation of peasant paintings for 40 years, and there are more than 1,400 fine paintings. With the support of the town government, he founded the Peasant Painting Institute and carried forward the Bori Peasant Painting. In order to promote the faster transformation of the artistic achievements of peasant painting, he set up an embroidery workshop to combine peasant painting with embroidery technology, so that the works can be exported overseas and realize the "intangible cultural heritage realization". During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he organized and led the creation of a large number of peasant paintings fighting against the epidemic, and fought against the "epidemic" with art. Pan Yu has won the honorary titles of "National Advanced Worker", "National Top Ten Peasant Painters", "Jiangsu Provincial Labor Model", "Jiangsu Good Man" and so on.
The magic pen and flowers paint a happy hometown
Born here, Pan Yu was deeply influenced by the town of Boli, who was born in the town of Boli, loved to paint since childhood, and showed great talent in the creation of peasant paintings. Every grass and tree in the countryside has become his creative material and source of inspiration. His works are rich in pictures, rich in connotation, full of story, and exquisitely conceived. In order to "lecture" to the villagers, Pan Yu specially bought a small blackboard and "taught" the villagers at home, and the villagers affectionately called him "Teacher Pan". He encouraged everyone to actively innovate, carry forward the spirit of "not afraid of painting badly, afraid to paint", boldly use color, and constantly enrich the content of paintings.
Ingenious ideas to accelerate the transformation of results
"As a folk art, if peasant painting cannot go to the market and realize industrialization, the development of this kind of folk art will inevitably die." Pan Yu is determined to carry forward the paintings of the boli peasants and let the villagers live a prosperous life. In order to ensure the quality of the peasant paintings in Boli Town, he often braved the wind and rain and went deep into the homes of the village peasant painters to guide the paintings, regardless of personal gains and losses. Due to the long-term illness and persistence in work, in 2014, he was hospitalized in the hospital for more than 2 months due to gastrointestinal diseases and other sub-health causes, and after being discharged, he immediately went to the front-line job of farmer painting tutoring and creation.
Under his careful guidance, the overall artistic level of Berry peasant painting has been significantly improved. From 1991 to 2019, in the Jiangsu Provincial Farmers' Art Calligraphy Competition, Boli Peasant Painting won the first prize for six consecutive years. With the help of the government, the Boli Town Peasant Painting Institute was established, led by Pan Yu, and the villagers also began to take orders, constantly pushing peasant paintings to the market, and the villagers' lives gradually became richer.
Looking at the achievements of Boli peasant painting, Pan Yubei was relieved, and he felt that Boli peasant painting could create greater economic value. Pan Yu's wife is a good hand at traditional embroidery, and Pan Yu tries to combine Boli peasant painting with traditional embroidery techniques and establish an embroidery workshop. Nowadays, there are more than 30 embroidery girls in the workshop, and through the "company + farmer" model cooperation, the average monthly income of each embroidery lady can reach 5,000 yuan. Boli farmer painting embroidery is also its unique artistic style and practicality, won the praise of professionals and all walks of life, every year there are nearly 400 orders of products exported to Southeast Asia, the United States, Europe and other places.
Carry forward positive energy with the "epidemic" of art warfare
In the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, Pan Yu organized farmer painters to pick up paintbrushes and help fight the epidemic with the power of art, creating a large number of peasant paintings that jointly fought against the epidemic. His peasant painting public welfare works "Epidemic Prevention and Control Without Missing the Farm", "Quickly Pass epidemic Prevention to Ten Thousand Families", "Epidemic Prevention and Control Cannot Be Delayed", "Epidemic Prevention and Control Propaganda in Action", "Resolutely Win the Battle to Prevent and Control the Epidemic", etc., some of which were published in the central media and some were displayed in provincial new media, which caused great repercussions.
Source: District Civilization Office
Editor: Liu Wu