New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All MediaBabaylan Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
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When you mention the Guangdong New Year Customs, what will you think of first? Some customs such as walking in the flower streets and washing the sloppy clothes are still prosperous today; some customs such as worshiping the Kitchen God at the 23rd day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th day of the 20th Recently, Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs, including Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper-cut national intangible cultural heritage projects, but also Lingnan New Year customs publications, traditional Lingnan Halls, and paintings of famous Lingnan masters. The exhibition lasts until February 28. The highlights of the exhibition are two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that are highly 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 Song and Yuan dynasties, flourished in the Ming dynasties, flourished in the Qing dynasties to the early Republic of China. They are as famous as Yangliuqing, Tianjin, Taohuawu, Suzhou, and Weifang, Shandong. They are one of the four major woodblock New Year paintings in China. It was once an important decoration for homes in Lingnan. It was sold all over Lingnan and even far away.Sales overseas, carrying people’s yearning and wishes for a better life.
Due to the changes of the times, Komiks, it gradually declined due to the impact of modern lifestyles, and even disappeared completely for a time. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, son of the famous New Year painting artist Feng Jun (nicknamed “Domes God Jun”, gave up his original career to fulfill his father’s last wish, and re-study Cinema and study. Babaylan made the woodblock New Year paintings look so that Komiks can see the light of day again.
He founded the Feng New Year paintings of Cinema, Cinema, is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition is the complete set of Feng New Year paintings production tools, production processes, and representative works such as “Door God” and “God of Wealth”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures are depicted with a knife pen to depict the deep mark of Lingnan; exquisite carved sheets pass on the unique New Year customs and blessings from the past to the present.
Guangdong paper cutting is another national intangible cultural heritage project in this exhibition. The paper-cut exhibits in this exhibition are from intangible cultural heritage inheritors and hobbies in Foshan, Chaoyang, Shantou, Leizhou and other places.>CinemaCinema not only inherits the ancient intangible cultural heritage skills in its original style, showing the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, but also combines the preferences of modern people to boldly innovate in artistic style and picture content.