New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu QidongKomiks Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty Li Yuanqing
When you mention the Guangdong New Year Customs, what will you think of first Komiks? Some customs such as walking in the flower streets and washing the sloppy, and still flourishing. There are also customs of Cinema, such as worshiping the Kitchen God in the 23rd year of the year and worshiping the God of Wealth on the second day of the Chinese New Year, which was once an indispensable part of the Lingnan Spring Festival, but it was the birth of the Babaylan in the past. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema expands and gradually fades away.
Komiks Recently, Southern Media and 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, paintings of famous Lingnan masters, etc. The exhibition lasts until February 28. The highlights of the Babaylan exhibition are two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that are highly characteristic of Guangdong and integrate traditional New Year culture – Buddha’s woodblock New Year pictures 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, and are as famous as the New Year paintings of Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, and Shandong Weifang, is one of the four major woodblock New Year pictures in China. It was once an important decoration for the festival in Lingnan and a family. In the past, it was sold well in Lingnan and even overseas. It carries people’s yearning for a better life and wishes.
Due to the changes of the times, it gradually declined due to the impact of modern lifestyles, and even disappeared completely for a while. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, the son of Feng Jun (Choiu Cinema, who was the son of Feng Bingtang (ChoiuCinema, gave up his original career and re-studyed it in order to realize his father’s last wish, so that woodblock New Year paintings could see the light of day again. The Feng Family New Year Painting Workshop founded by him is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of Komiks paintings. This exhibition displays the full set of production tools, production processes of the Feng Family New Year Painting Workshop, as well as representative works such as “Door God” and “God of Fortune”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures use a knife to depict the deep mark of Lingnan; the exquisite and beautiful carved panels 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 enthusiasts from Foshan, Chaoyang, Shantou, and Leizhou. They have inherited the ancient intangible cultural heritage technology in its original style./comicmov.com/”>Cinema art, exhibiting the colorful regional characteristics of Komiks everywhere in Lingnan, and combining the preferences of modern people, boldly innovate in artistic style and picture content.