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In Linyi, every flower cloth is painted with a beautiful story, an auspicious wish is hidden, and the blessing of a better life is conveyed.
Walking into the Zhang Ming Jiancai Calico Art Museum in Taiping Street, Hedong District, a square flower cloth is hung on the wall, dazzling and colorful, depicting a beautiful and moving story. The museum has a collection of more than 300 pieces of color calico and blue calico works of Zhang Mingjian, the inheritor of traditional printing and dyeing skills of intangible cultural heritage items.
Among the many colored calico works in the museum, the huge work of "Chinese Dream", which is 19 meters long and 3.5 meters wide, is particularly eye-catching.
Zhang Mingjian and his huge color calico work "Chinese Dream"
In this work, the three big characters of the "Chinese Dream" written by Jiao Fangchi, the Chinese book leader, are strong and powerful, and the character "Zhong" is particularly like the image of a person with his hands crossed and standing up to the sky, implying that the Chinese people stand up, get rich, and become strong under the leadership of the party.
The central background is the "Descendants of the Dragon", three colorful oriental dragons, entrenched in the three big characters of the "Chinese Dream", dressed in auspicious clouds, flying scales and claws, spitting dragon balls, and imposing. The left and right sides are equipped with allusions and images such as "Sanyang Kaitai", "Danfeng Chaoyang", "Rich and Rich", "Crane and Deer Tongchun", "Five Sons Dengke", "More than Years in a Row", "Blessing as the East China Sea" and "Shoubi Nanshan", which contain 17 folk tales.
The five red and glamorous open pomegranates symbolize the big family of the Chinese nation and also imply "five sons of Dengke"; The rising red sun on the right symbolizes the youth who place the hope of the nation, just like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning; The moon and the sun on the left reflect each other, meaning "the sun and the moon shine together"; Two colorful phoenixes spread their wings and soared, passing through the red peonies, flying towards the sun, implying "phoenix wearing peony" and "danfeng chaoyang"; Clusters of gorgeous red peonies imply "full of wealth"; There are mountains and seas, symbolizing "longevity than South Mountain, blessing such as the East China Sea"; There is a dense pine tree growing on the top of the south mountain, and there are sika deer jumping next to the pine tree, and there is a crane with Ganoderma lucidum in its mouth standing next to the water opposite, which means "crane and deer are in the same spring"; At the foot of the mountain, three grazing goats are leisurely, symbolizing "Sanyang Kaitai"; There are red lotus flowers blooming on the water surface, and golden carp swimming in lotus leaves, symbolizing "more than one year in a row"; The flowering evergreen and orchid grass complement each other, meaning "evergreen".
Zhang Ming Jiancai Calico Art Museum
The image depicted on the huge flower cloth is vivid and lifelike, the color is fresh and bright, and the whole scroll depicts the theme of the times of the country's peace and security, social prosperity and people's happiness, and also reflects the people's wishes and praises for a better life.
Zhang Mingjian conceived this "Chinese Dream" work for three years, painted it for eight months, engraved more than 100 plates, and took one year to lithography the version. In the production process, he has used more than 30 kinds of knives, more than 40 brushes, and more than 100 kinds of various pigments. The one page on the cloth, one eye, one stroke, one painting, one grass and one flower, all poured Zhang Mingjian's ingenuity and sweat. This work is the culmination of Zhang Mingjian's artistic creation for more than 60 years, and it is also the treasure of the museum.
Zhang Mingjian has his own understanding of the "Chinese dream": "The Chinese nation is one, and the country's rejuvenation is more developed. The dream came true thanks to the party, and the people of the whole country laughed haha! "His work is endowed with the richness of a new era. "When I was in elementary school, my teachers often talked about my vision for the future, 'upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones, farming without oxen lighting lamps and no oil, walking apples fall from my mouth, drinking milk and eating bread every day' is the dream of a better life that we pursued, and at that time I was looking forward to living such a life, but I couldn't believe that there would be such a life! Now, the dream of a good life has come true! ”
Zhang Mingjian is making colored calico
Today, 76-year-old Zhang Mingjian still keeps carving knives and creating, using colorful calico to depict the Chinese dream in his heart. He has never stopped promoting and inheriting this ancient folk art with distinctive Yimeng characteristics.
The production of color calico is divided into six processes: pattern making, plate making, engraving, oiling, color matching, printing and dyeing. Zhang Jianming created the "gradient color" of color printing, and the lotus flower he printed changed the traditional monochrome appearance, and the petal color transitioned from magenta to red. Jiao Fangchi, the master of Chinese calligraphy, commented on Zhang Mingjian's color calico "ghostly axe, shape and rhyme; All things are auspicious, and the true legend is represented". This folk art has also been loved by art masters including Feng Jicai and Han Meilin. Yimengcai calico has won many honors such as the title of "Chinese Folk Art", and is deeply loved by Chinese and foreign people.
Zhang Mingjian's color calico works
Financial media reporter Li Lu, Wang Hongjun, Shao Hui
Editor: Bai Jianbo