New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Sun Lei KomiksComponent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty Li Yuanqing
Introduction to Guangdong New Year Customs, what will you think of first? Some customs such as visiting the flower street and washing the sloppy clothes are still prosperous today; some customs such as worshiping the Kitchen God in 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 day
Recently, Southern Media and Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs. They not only include 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 culture. Cinema, Foshan, Komiks New Year pictures and Guangdong paper-cuts.
Foshan woodblock New Year paintings began in the Song and Yuan dynasties, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, flourished from the Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, and were as famous as the New Year paintings of Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, and Shandong Weifang.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks is one of the four major Chinese woodblock New Year pictures. It was once an important decoration for the family and homes in Lingnan. It was sold well in the past in all parts of Lingnan and even sold overseas, carrying people’s yearning and wishes for a better life.
Due to the changes of the times, it gradually declined and even disappeared completely for a while. It was not until the late 90s that Feng Bingtang, son of Feng Jun (nicknamed “Domes God Jun”, a famous New Year painting artist, gave up his original career and re-studyed and studied in order to fulfill his father’s last wish, so that woodblock New Year paintings could see the light of day again. The Feng New Year Painting Workshop, run by Cinema, is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of Babaylan paintings. This exhibition displays the complete set of production tools of the Feng New Year Painting Workshop, Cinema, Komiks production technology, as well as representative works such as “Door God of Door Movie” and “God of Fortune”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures are depicted with a knife pen to depict the deep mark of Lingnan; exquisite carvings are passed down 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 the inheritors and love of intangible cultural heritage in Foshan, Shantou Chaoyang, Leizhou and other places.CinemaThe Cinemanons have not only inherited the ancient intangible cultural heritage skills in authenticity, showing the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, but also combined with the preferences of modern people, and boldly created new things in artistic style and picture content.