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Opening remarks
It's the Spring Festival of another year, and every family celebrates reunion. In order to further create a happy, peaceful, and blessed atmosphere of "Fu" culture, and promote the whole city to pay attention to "Fu" culture, participate in "Fu" culture, and enjoy "Fu" culture, on the occasion of the Spring Festival, Nanping Station of Southeast Network planned to launch a series of reports on "Intangible Cultural Heritage Sending Blessings to Celebrate the New Year", focusing on the inheritance, innovation and development of intangible cultural heritage skills in the new era, and displaying the "Fu" cultural works created by intangible cultural heritage craftsmen, so that the general public can feel the charm of excellent traditional Chinese culture while tasting the strong flavor of the New Year.
"Wow, there's a dragon on this cutout! ”
Recently, at the "Miura Juzhen, Fuman Pucheng" cultural market, there was a long queue in front of the booth of Pucheng paper-cutting. The endless stream of visitors marveled at the vivid dragon on the paper-cutting, and there were several children in the booth who were experiencing this intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting skill.
Pucheng folk paper-cutting has a history of more than 1,000 years
It is widely used in the lives of the people of Pucheng to express auspicious and beautiful meanings. In 2014, the paper-cutting (Pucheng paper-cutting) was included in the list of representative items of the national intangible cultural heritage.
Teacher Zhang Wei is creating New Year's works
In the Pucheng Art Museum/Fan Di'an Art Museum, the reporter saw Zhang Wei, the provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Pucheng paper-cutting, cutting a "auspicious Ruyi".
Zhang Wei told reporters
Pucheng people have different feelings for paper-cutting
"In this paper-cut, there is a cornucopia, with two ruyi hanging on the side, and the word 'fu' on it is also entwined with magpies and plum blossoms, implying wealth and longevity, auspiciousness and good luck. ”
Pucheng paper-cutting on display in the exhibition hall
Pucheng paper-cutting accommodates the north and south styles, is very rich in regional characteristics, and is used in various folk festivals, expressing the Pucheng people's longing for beauty in its unique way. Pucheng paper-cut has a painting in the words, there are words in the painting, and the painting is composed of words, and each pattern has an extended meaning behind it, creating a precedent for Chinese folk paper-cutting "gift flowers".
"Pucheng people have the custom of cutting, pasting blessings, and praying for blessings during the New Year, such as the dishes or pastries of the New Year's worship, there will be a paper-cut that resembles that item, such as a fish is a fish flower in the shape of a fish, a pig is a pig flower, and a wooden fish has a wooden fish flower...... These are also called 'gift flowers'. Zhang Wei introduced.
Teacher Zhang Wei is creating the New Year's work "Auspicious Ruyi"
Mainly used as a festive "gift flower"
The patterns are mostly longevity peaches, ruyi, plum blossoms, peonies, etc
Traditional elements are dominant
to express good wishes for the New Year
It is on the basis of such folklore
Pucheng paper-cutting has been passed down from generation to generation
Connecting the local history and the future
Teacher Zhang Wei is creating the New Year's work "Auspicious Ruyi"
In addition to the application of paper-cutting to traditional festivals, the "Sister-in-law of Cutting Flowers" also actively explores to create paper-cutting into cultural and creative products, artworks and so on that young people like.
"Some companies will also come to us to cooperate, such as product packaging, patterns on tableware, mobile phone cases, silk scarves, etc., printed with Pucheng paper-cuts that combine product characteristics, and make exquisite packaging or pattern logos. ”
Paper-cut cultural and creative products
On the display shelf, the tea packaging printed with paper-cut is special and exquisite, the T-shirt combined with Fuzhou's regional elements is selling hot, and the handbag paper-cut cultural and creative is a fusion of tradition and fashion.
A small pair of scissors
A few pieces of red paper
A simple tool can be used to cut out beautiful flowers
The word of joy
Cut-out tools
The effortless and intuitive experience makes the activity of paper cutting particularly popular among students.
In order to widely disseminate Pucheng paper-cutting, combined with volunteer activities and after-school services, 19 towns (streets) in Pucheng County have opened extracurricular interest paper-cutting classes. While learning about paper-cutting, it also enhances the awareness of young people on the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
Pucheng paper-cutting on display in the exhibition hall
On the display wall of the art museum, there are dozens of paper-cuts of the "Ten Thousand Blessings to the Dynasty" series that integrate the cultural identity of Fujian and use "Fu" as the expression, one of which "Fuwuyi" has attracted the attention of reporters. "There are Da Hong Pao, Jiuqu Creek, and Jade Girl Peak here...... We have integrated these elements of Wuyi Mountain into 'Fu', which means that Wuyi is blessed. ”
"Manfuku Coming Morning"
The series of works of "Ten Thousand Blessings to the Dynasty" consists of 100 pieces of paper-cut works with the theme of "Fu Culture" with different contents and unified styles, covering the artistic themes of Fujian's history, humanities, specialties, regions, industries, environment, culture and other contents, "A chicken, a leaf, a mountain, a bamboo, a bottle of water, these are the 'Fu Culture' paper-cuts that extract the characteristic elements of Nanping." Zhang Wei said. The series of works of "Ten Thousand Blessings to the Dynasty" is a display of the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers and the outstanding people of the earth, the excavation of unique themes such as intangible cultural heritage, ocean, red, and Fujian overseas Chinese with profound historical and cultural heritage in the land of Fujian, and the depiction of the image of cultural tourism and people-to-people diplomacy, so as to construct a comprehensive and three-dimensional portrait of Fujian for readers, and deeply show its internal and external beauty.
Momofuku Raicho Exhibition
"Every year, we cut some new patterns in conjunction with the New Year, and last year we created about 100 'Fu Culture' paper-cuts. "On the occasion of the arrival of the Year of the Dragon, there are also many paper-cuts with elements of the Year of the Dragon in the Pucheng County Paper-cutting Workshop, and "Dragon and Lion Blessing" is one of them.
"Dragon and Lion Blessing" is designed by Zhou Dongmei, the provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Pucheng paper-cutting and the master of arts and crafts in Fujian Province, with the Fujian folk Spring Festival and Lantern Festival dragon and lion dance blessing activities as the scene, expressing the celebration of the harvest, auspiciousness, exorcism and harm, unity and harmony, seeking blessings and prosperity.
Zhang Wei:
"The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and I wish people all the best in the new year, and life is full of auspiciousness and happiness. ”
Source: Nanping Station of Southeast Network