New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media RecordKomiksLei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty Li Yuanqing
What do you think of when it comes to Guangdong New Year Customs? Some customs such as visiting the flower street and washing the sloppy, Cinema is still prosperous today; some customs such as worshiping the Kitchen God at the 23rd day of the lunar calendar and worshiping the God of Wealth on the 2nd day of the lunar calendar, which were once an indispensable part of the Lingnan Spring Festival, but it is gradually fading away with the development of the times.
Recently, Southern Media and Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs, including not only Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper-cut national intangible cultural heritage projects, but also Lingnan New Year Customs publications, traditional Lingnan Halls, paintings of famous Lingnan masters, etc. The exhibition lasts until February 28.
The highlights of the exhibition are two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that are very Guangdong-style and integrate traditional New Year customs culture – Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper cutting.
Foshan woodblock New Year paintings began in the Yuan Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the early Republic of China, and were as famous as the New Year paintings of Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, and Shandong Weifang. It is one of the four major woodblock New Year paintings in China. It was once an important decoration for the family and homes in Lingnan. It was sold well in Lingnan and even overseas in the past. It is a well-known decoration for people to treat the United States./”>Komiks’ yearning and wish for a good life.
Due to the changes of the times, it gradually declined by the impact of the modern lifestyle of Komiks, and even disappeared completely for a while. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, son of Feng Jun (nicknamed “Door God Jun”, a famous New Year painting artist Feng Jun (nicknamed “Door God Jun”, gave up his original career and re-study, so as to realize his father’s last wish, and gave up his original career, studied and studied again. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks allows woodblock New Year paintings to see the sun again.
The Feng New Year Painting Workshop, which he founded, is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition displays the complete set of production tools, production processes, and representative works such as “Door God” and “God of Wealth”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year paintings are portrayed with a knife and pen to deeply Lingnan seals. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan notes; exquisite carvings, Babaylan, pass on the unique New Year customs and blessings from the past to the present.
Guangdong Paper Cutting is another national-level Babaylan intangible cultural heritage project in this exhibition. The paper-cutting exhibits in this exhibition are from Buddha. Intangible inheritors and enthusiasts of Cinema Mountain, Shantou Chaoyang, Leizhou and other places have inherited the ancient ones in their original style.comicmov.com/”>Cinemaintangible cultural heritage skills show the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, and combine the preferences of modern people to boldly innovate in the artistic style and painting content of Komiks.