Famous kites, New Year's paintings hometown Yangjiabu. Yangjiabu is China's largest woodblock print production area, but also the birthplace of Weifang kites. Yangjiabu New Year paintings and kites originated in the early Ming Dynasty and have a history of more than 600 years. Yangjiabu New Year Paintings were listed in the heritage rescue project by China Folk Cultural Heritage Rescue Committee, and Yangjiabu Volume of Chinese Woodblock Prints Integration was issued as the first volume of the demonstration book, and a grand press conference was held in the Great Hall of the People. Yangjiabu woodblock prints and kites were recognized as national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. Yangjiabu kites were honored as the only famous trademark product of Shandong Province.?
Yangjiabu is an administrative village in the Hanting District of Weifang. Formerly known as Weifang County, it was the capital of the Han Kingdom in the Xia Dynasty, from which it got its name. Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" in the Qing Dynasty, was a magistrate here, and the "Battle of Weixian" during the War of Liberation was famous throughout the country.
Long historical origin, Yangjiabu as a characteristic folk tourism village, 2000 has been recognized by the World Tourism Organization. 2002 was named "Shandong Province famous historical and cultural villages", with China's first village of folk customs.
Now we come to the core part of Yangjiabu Folk Tourism Village-Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden. Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden is a national 3A-level tourist attraction, a national agricultural tourism demonstration site, one of the fifty-six most ethnic tourist attractions in China, and one of the top ten brand units of Shandong Province's tourist and leisure places. Here you can learn in detail about the rich origin of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings, New Year's Paintings engraved plates, New Year's Paintings production showing the production process of six hundred years ago. At the same time, you can also enjoy the display of New Year paintings of other regions including Taiwan New Year paintings; you can enjoy the famous kite painting, tying production process and picturesque flying scenes, and visit the kite boutique pavilion and kite museum; a street of ancient stores shows you the scenes of hundreds of painting stores in Ming and Qing dynasties; the on-site production of redwood inlaid silver displays the inlaid silver culture with a history of 300 years; the on-site production and display of clay sculptures in the clay sculpture exhibition hall, you can enjoy the clay sculpture production and display, you can enjoy the clay sculpture production and display, you can enjoy the clay sculpture production and display. Show, you can enjoy the elegant art of clay sculpture; Root Carving Art Museum can appreciate the famous Chinese root master Mr. Hu Shiming's unique root art; Ming Dynasty Yang's high mansion to show the simple folk culture; Mou Dewu created the Banqiao Painting and Calligraphy Institute, whether it is a large and majestic works, or just randomly on the three branches and two leaves, all reflecting the bones of the Banqiao and charisma, known as China's art circles "The legacy of Banqiao, the only one in the north of the Yangtze River"; the Cultural Relics Museum displays national first-class cultural relics, second-class cultural relics and third-class cultural relics, presenting the ancient Longshan culture; in addition to this, here, you will enjoy the local folklore, folk style, and. Folk paper-cutting, cloth tigers, clay tigers, cloisonné folk crafts, ancient traditional art makes you obsessed and intoxicated. Ancient Ming Dynasty ancient acacia, unique style of Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, deep old aisles, Jiangbei Farmer's Courtyard, the majestic gate god, the tall Fuk Luk Shou Shou wall are showing the ancient folk culture atmosphere. Here will seduce your childhood memories and bring you into the dreamland of your childhood.
Kite Windmill Court, which combines exquisite kite patterns with traditional folk windmills, shows a bright landscape. The kite soars high and the windmill always turns, which means to wish all the guests good wind to borrow power and develop their career! The kite windmill has been on tour in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries and has been highly evaluated.
What we are going to walk into in front of us is the Kite Museum. Yangjiabu kites originated in the early Ming Dynasty, and woodblock prints are known as sister arts, and the two have a deep origin, "put in the sky is a kite, hanging on the wall is a New Year's painting", is a true portrayal of the unique artistic characteristics of Yangjiabu kites. The museum is equipped with four exhibition rooms, including Yang Tongke Memorial Hall of Chinese Kite King, Kite Celebrity Kite Display Hall, Weifang Kite Star Kite Display Hall, and Chinese Kite Expert Kite Display Hall, in which there are traditional kites, modern kites, stunt kites, giant kites and other kinds of kites on display, which show a variety of kite art of different genres and styles, and these kites are all award-winning works of all kinds of kite competitions both at home and abroad.
This is the Memorial Hall of Yang Tongke, the King of Chinese Kites. Born in 1902, Yang Tongke was engaged in the creation and research of kites for 87 years, and made more than 100,000 high-quality kites in his life. In 1986, with his third son, Yang Qimin***, he developed a 360-meter-long dragon head centipede, which won the best prize at the Third Weifang International Kite Festival and was regarded as the best in the world. It was reported by all major national news media, Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, Asahi Shimbun of Japan and Washington Times of America. In April 1987, State Councillor Gu Mu came to Yangjiabu for inspection and wrote an inscription for Mr. Yang Tongke: Mr. Yang is the oldest, the longest kite maker, the most skillful, and the best kite flyer.
This is the Kite Celebrity Kite Display Hall, displaying the works of Mr. Wang Yongxun, director of Weifang Kite Art Association. The works of phoenix playing peony, blowing cock to attract phoenix and big goldfish won the first prize at the Weifang International Kite Festival, the nine-headed centipede won the innovation prize and the dragonfly won the third prize.
This is the Weifang Kite Star Kite Display Hall, displaying the works of Yang Changling and Liu Zhitang. The works of Running to the Future, Dragon and Tiger Leap, Dragon and Phoenix were awarded the highest prize at the Weifang International Kite Festival, and the Dragon Head Centipede was awarded the International Grand Prize at the Japan International Kite Festival. Liu Zhitang's Chang'e Runs to the Moon won the second prize at the first Weifang International Kite Festival, Blessing Kite won the gold prize at the Beijing International Kite Festival, and Open the Door for Good Luck and Bao Qingtian Kites won the first prize at the Weifang International Kite Festival. This is the kite exhibition hall of Chinese kite experts, displaying the works of Mr. Zhang Xiudong, a kite expert, and Mr. Yang Yong, a famous kite artist. Mr. Zhang Xiudong's kites of Shenzhou V, Jianlong and Gonggong Yan won the first prize of innovation in Weifang International Kite Festival, the bee and cicada kite won the second prize in National Sports Competition, and the golden monkey kite won the excellent prize in Weifang International Kite Festival. Mr. Yang Yong's kites of Smooth Sailing, Eagle and Snake with Eyes were awarded the Excellent Prize of Innovation in Weifang International Kite Festival.
Now we come to the kite painting museum, which still maintains the traditional painting process of 600 years ago. To draw a kite, you first draw the pattern line drawing, then paste the head after tying the paste, and then color the kite according to the composition. According to the requirements of traditional painting, the staffs here have to undergo one year's basic training and obtain the qualification before they can start to paint. The kites are drawn without leaving any traces of underline, with smooth, fine and even strokes, orderly lightness and heaviness, orderly complexity and simplicity, with bright color blocks, natural touches, clear layers and realistic visual effects, reflecting the characteristics of clumsiness and elegance, exaggeration, warmth, neatness and cleanliness. The fabric of the kite is silk, which is not afraid of water, not deformed and not out of shape. The picture drawn in this way not only embodies the artistic effect of painting in colorful but not vulgar, but also shows the gorgeous posture under the blue sky and white clouds, which further shows the artistic charm of ten thousand purples and thousands of reds, brilliant and magnificent.
Out of this compound, we see the high platform is a kite flying field covering an area of 5000 square meters. Every kite has to go through test flight acceptance before leaving the factory, and the quality is strictly controlled to ensure that every one of them is a high-quality product. Yangjiabu kites are honored as the famous trademark products of Shandong Province. There are kite flying performances in the flying field all year round. Especially because of the plate eagle kite shaped like a real eagle, sometimes it will lead to eagle *** dance, which is called a strange, so-called "plate eagle over the sky more delicate posture, eagle *** dance show magic. It attracts many drunken tourists, and it is the first wonder in the sky."
Now we come to the kite-making museum, the production of a complete kite, you need to go through 22 hurdles, through 61 procedures. The kites produced by the zaizhi are famous at home and abroad for their rigorous craftsmanship in zaizhi, gluing and painting, novel design, and high and stable flying. There are eight main processes:?
One, the selection of materials: choose perennial bamboo, the length of the bamboo section is uniform, strong toughness, no mold, no moth; symmetrical part of the bamboo must be taken from the same part of the bamboo, synchronous processing.
Second, the material: according to the design requirements of the bamboo cut off, scrape off the bamboo surface brittle skin, remove the scar joints, split blanks scraping, cross synchronization modeling together.
Three, modeling: including the selection of materials, baking and bending modeling. According to the specifications, the distribution of bamboo materials, moderate baking and bending with fire modeling, shape should be accurate, scraping and polishing; symmetrical part of the fine split equal weight; inserted part of the looseness and tightness, along the trend of trimming the joints part of the fine and beautiful; accessory production should be in line with the specifications, firm and smooth.
Four, tying: strictly according to the drawings of the frame, bamboo material size should be matched with the right, smooth skeleton, scientific structure, both lightweight and wind resistant; selection of fine and strong tying line, winding smooth, so that it fully meet the requirements. Tying tools used are pliers, knives, files, saws, scissors, tweezers, rulers, baking lamps.
Fifth, paste paste: to paste the appropriate tightness, flat and not twisted, trimmed neatly.
Sixth, assembly: the joints are flexible, firm, and the body of the wings are installed freely. The symmetrical part should be installed at the same time to avoid wrong installation.
Seven, tethered corner line: according to different specifications, determine the length and number of corner line.
VIII, test flight: the kite flies to a height of more than 3 meters, does not shake its head within one minute, does not roll down and tie up, flies to an adaptable height within 2-5 winds, and can lift off smoothly. The above introduction is the kite making, you may go back and try yourself, you will get the unexpected harvest.
The stone carving on our left is the Three Sheep, the image of which is taken from the Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings. The word "sheep" harmonizes with the word "yang". Ancient Chinese traditional cultural text "I Ching" in the first month for the Thai hexagrams, the ancients believe that the yin gas gradually go Yang Qi began to grow. The winter solstice in November of the lunar calendar is the shortest day, and then the day grows longer, so the winter solstice is considered to be the "first sun", December is the "second sun", and the first month of the year is the "three suns". The three yang Kai Tai means winter and spring, yin and yang long, there are auspicious signs, often as the beginning of the new year's blessings.
The courtyard in front is the Yangjiabu Woodblock Print Museum, which has three exhibition rooms. The first exhibition room displays old Ming and Qing dynasty New Year paintings; the second exhibition room displays traditional New Year paintings; the third exhibition room displays modern New Year paintings. Yangjiabu New Year paintings began in the early Ming Dynasty, in 1369, Yang's first family moved from Zitong County, Sichuan Province, which is at the southern end of the Shu Road, with engraving and printing skills, after settling here to give full play to the painting talent, according to the folklore of Shandong Province to create a splendid culture of woodblock prints of Yangjiabu New Year paintings. It is in accordance with the local ideological requirements, customs and beliefs, beautiful tales and legends, with simple, elegant, funny and colorful, meaning auspicious and peaceful style popular among tourists. Yangjiabu New Year's paintings have three main characteristics: first, the rich local flavor; second, the strong contrast of colors; third, the artistic technique is exaggerated.
Now we come to the first exhibition room, where the main display of Mr. Ma Zhiqiang's collection of Yangjiabu Ming and Qing dynasty New Year paintings. This yearbook is for the god of wealth, Bi Gan. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou of the Yin Dynasty, the Taoist listened to Daji slander will be Bigan dissected heart and death, because of his integrity and benevolence, fairness, and after his death, no heart is not biased, so that he is assured of the main wealth was named the God of Wealth. In the middle are the two immortals of harmony. The following two, holding a treasure for the enrichment of the God special to send wealth, this is the God of plundering wealth, he specializes in wealth should not get back to go. Ancient people emphasized on destiny, and there is a fixed number of wealth in one's life, so there are these two gods of increasing wealth and plundering wealth. This is a picture of Jiang Taigong fishing with a straight hook in the Wei Shui River. Zhou Wen Wang hunting, accounted for a trigram to get a beast, not a dragon is not a chi dragon, not a bear is not a warrior, should get the emperor too phase. In the Weishui River cha cha in Taigong acquaintance, King Wen Bole recognizes the horse hired Taigong for the phase, and personally with the emperor chu pulled eight hundred and eight steps, Jiang Taigong to protect the Zhou Dynasty for eight hundred and eight years, was rumored to be a beautiful story.
This is the second exhibition room displaying the traditional New Year paintings of Yangjiabu. Yangjiabu New Year paintings are roughly divided into six categories:
The first category is the idol category. These two are the god of martial arts, "Shentan Yubi", which is pasted on the main door near the street. Here is a beautiful legend, according to legend, at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, there are two brothers brother Shentian and younger brother Yubi, they are upright, powerful, in the Dushuo mountain planting peach trees, bear peaches and sweet, big and fragrant, eat not only prolong life, but also can become a god, fierce tiger for them to protect the forest to watch the peach. There was a wild king on the Bison Ridge who did nothing but harm the people. One day, the Wild King sent his men to Dushuo Mountain to ask for peaches, and the two of them blew them away. The Wild King was so angry that he went to steal the peaches on a dark night when the wind was blowing furiously and he was dressed up as an evil spirit with his bandits. Shentan broke down the peach branches and beat them in front of him, while Yubi used reeds to bind them at the back, and in a short time, all the evil spirits were tied up and fed to tigers. Later, he became an immortal and was appointed as a general, commanding ten thousand ghosts. Because they were the masters of the peach tree, the peach tree was used to avoid evil spirits. Later, the world painted their shapes and pasted them on the front door to deter ghosts and evil spirits and keep the family safe. This painting "Qin Qiong Jingde" is a martial arts door god. Legend has it that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty could not sleep at night because of the intrusion of the ghost of the evil dragon, and the two generals volunteered to be on duty for Emperor Taizong at night, and the ghosts did not dare to get close to Emperor Taizong, so he was safe and sound. In order to drive away the ghosts and ward off evil spirits, Emperor Taizong ordered the painter to draw a shadow picture of the two people posted on the palace door, the folk followed suit, and then forever for the door god. This picture is the king of the stove, also known as Zaojun, Zaoshen, Zaowangdi. As noted, he is said to be the Jade Emperor Earth sent to each household of the head of the family. His duty is to know what is good and what is bad on earth, and to report to heaven on the twenty-third day of the lunar month every year, so as to provide a basis for the Jade Emperor to reward the good and punish the bad. In order to make Zao Wang say more good words, every family sacrifices to the stove on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, and serves Zao Wang with good wine and food, so that he can eat and drink well and say only good words. Since sugar melons are sweet and sticky, they became indispensable offerings for the Zaos, not only to make the Zaos king's mouth sweet, but also to stick to the Zaos king's mouth, so that he would not say bad things and incur the sin of the gods. At that time, this proverb was circulated in the folklore: go on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, come on the first day of the New Year at five shifts (Zaowang), a sugar melon with three columns of incense, Zaowang returns to the palace to keep you well." "Good things are said in heaven, and good fortune descends to the lower world." The main celebrant of Zaosheng must be a parent, kneeling behind a child during the service, holding a rooster with both hands, the parent kowtowed afterward and prayed to Zao Wang with the salutation: today is the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the Zao Wang goes to the west, and in seven days it will be the New Year. The king of zaobao is going to the west, and in seven days it will be a new year. He is going to the heaven to say good things, and he is coming back to bring only long handles (referring to the boys), and don't lead the ones who are wearing flowers (referring to the girls),....... To instill in Zao Wang the idea of reporting good news but not bad news and the preference for boys over girls. Said after a hand holding the neck of the rooster, the chicken head to the pile of grass to push three times, a hand will be cool water to the chicken head sprinkler, chicken, if fear, it is said that Zao Wang has been accepted, after the sacrifice of the whole family **** into the dinner. This picture for the big stove, divided into three layers, the upper layer for the god of wealth, the middle layer for the stove king and stove grandma, the lower layer for the house god.
The second category is mythological stories. This is the God of Wealth bestowed on the family of accumulation of good fortune, the money tree, treasure bowl, the tree bears money inexhaustible, the tree has a precious child to open a banner of a book, is a kind of people's aspirations. This is the Jinshan Temple, Broken Bridge, Scholar Worship Pagoda, Hsu Hsien tour of the lake, male ten busy, three big people, all with beautiful legends.
The third category is the beauty bar. Beauty strips with its colorful for the daughter-in-law, girlfriends love, pasted on the door of the room. Like these "Happy New Year", "Deer and Crane with Spring", "Double Happiness is coming, five blessings today" are reflecting people's longing for good luck.
The category of children is the fourth category of Yangjiabu New Year paintings. Pomegranate Blooming Hundred Sons" and "Unicorn Delivering Sons" are pasted on the doors of newlywed couples, meaning early birth and many children. The "Happiness Reporting Three Dollars", "The Lion and Child Entering the Door" and "Liu Hai Playing with the Golden Toad" are New Year's Paintings pasted on the door of the mother-in-law's room. Yearly Fortune" and "Gold Fish Filling the Hall" are masterpieces of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings, utilizing exaggeration to increase the artistic effect. The doll's head is bigger than its body and the fish is bigger than the doll. The techniques of exaggeration, allegory, harmonization and symbolism are utilized to show the good wishes and aspirations of the people.?
The fifth category is opera characters. Li Kui Takes the Fish", "The Empty City Plan", "Wei Shui River", "Chain Tactics" and so on, all of them are based on historical stories and operas, with profound meaning and silkiness.
The last category is flowers. The four screens of spring, summer, autumn and winter are mostly pasted on the kangtou. The spring peony in the screen symbolizes wealth, the summer lotus symbolizes purity, the autumn chrysanthemum symbolizes temperament, and the winter plum blossom symbolizes quality. The delicate carving and skillful craftsmanship of the screen have made even today's craft painters praise the work.
This is a map of eighteen provinces of the world in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, which is the earliest commercial map of China printed on woodblock. The map is rich in engraving, and in addition to the symbols of mountains, rivers and streams, the map also shows the distances of the routes centered on Beijing to the provincial capitals of the eighteen provinces of the Qing Dynasty and to the major neighboring countries. At that time, distances were measured in days based on the speed of a horse, and directions were located by compass. This map is a precious treasure of Yangjiabu.
This is the third exhibition room, mainly displaying some new year paintings. After the founding of the country, all levels of government attached great importance to the promotion of the art and development of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings, and the art workers created a lot of excellent works in keeping with the times. The first thing we see is the "New Year" lunar calendar picture, this kind of New Year's paintings in the past picture is the king of the stove, and the new creation picture is thrifty and rich family joy, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, by-products, fishery, the five industries are thriving, the life of a happy and fulfilling scene. This is the famous calligrapher Zhu Xueda created the lamp of fortune, mainly hanged on the wall of the gate in the Spring Festival. This New Year's picture has a big lucky character, a peace dove and a fat doll, meaning "Peace and Happiness", with a profound meaning and unique design. Earlier we saw the durian blooming a hundred children with many children and many blessings, and now advocating family planning, a painting of "One Child is Best" was created. In the picture, there is a little girl with a cracked peach next to her, and there is a kernel in the peach, which harmonizes with a child, so it adopts the techniques of symbolism and allegory to express the theme that both men and women are the same, and only one child is the best. This painting, Dedicating Strength to the Four Harmonizations, reflects the new changes and scenes in the socialist countryside since the reform and opening up.
This exhibition room displays some of the inscriptions made by leaders at all levels and famous people who visited Yangjiabu Grand View Garden. State Councilor Gu Mu's inscription "beauty of life, beauty of mind, beauty of skill, beauty of simplicity"; Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Qian Weichang's inscription "carry forward the traditions of the nation, the art of splendor"; Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Yang Chengwu's inscription " The flower of art"; famous poet and Minister of Culture Mr. He Jingzhi came to Yangjiabu in 1986, was infected by this simple folklore and folk style, improvised a poem, and wrote a poem, "New Year's paintings of a thousand versions of childhood dreams, kites fly for thousands of miles of heart", praising the Yangjiabu folk art of the gorgeous and colorful.
This is the Ming Dynasty ancient acacia, more than 600 years ago, we can see it in the middle of the withered heart of the hole is getting bigger and bigger, but it is withered and inexhaustible, the old branches of the new shoots, year after year, and not decline, with its tenacious vitality, to show people it is withered wood in the spring of the vibrant posture and Yangjiabu ancient folk culture. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Shandong Province, a generation of torrential rains, flooding, crop failure, a variety of trees were also drowned, only the village of nine ancient acacia roots deep leaves, vibrant. The next year and encountered a severe drought, the trees dead and injured half, only nine ancient acacia, fruitful, so that Yangjiabu's New Year's Eve painting industry is thriving. The owners of the painting store to thank the acacia tree for the help of the grace of the acacia tree have burned paper on incense, home have things to ask the acacia tree blessing, in Yangjiabu people's hearts to the ancient acacia as the acacia God, has been continued to the present. We have any wishes here to the king of the acacia to say, it will keep you lucky and happy up to your heart's desire. Yang's ancestors planted acacia trees on the development of the painting industry has a great role, here to raise a question to you, the acacia trees on the Yangjiabu painting industry in the end what is the role of it? Everyone can guess, we leave a suspense for the time being.?
What you see under the acacia king tree of the grass billet house is Yangjiabu so far the most complete preservation of the Ming Dynasty workshop, has been listed in the national key cultural relics protection, is now rare. This is the folklore exhibition hall, the museum displays the old production, living utensils, showing the historical vicissitudes of folk culture.
Next we walked into the Chinese New Year paintings exhibition hall, the museum displays the six origins of China's New Year paintings.
Here is the Taohuawu New Year Painting in Suzhou, known as the Citizen's New Year Painting. This one of a lump of peace refers to the Maitreya Buddha, which has been visualized. Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, according to legend, Tang Ming Emperor Li Longji returned to the palace from the schoolyard at Mount Li with a serious illness, which could not be cured for a long time. One night he dreamed of a Niubizi little ghost stole Yang Guifei's purple scented bag and the Emperor's jade flute, Li Longji loudly rebuked, then suddenly appeared a big ghost, head broken hat, wearing a blue robe to catch the little ghost, with fingers plucked out the eyes, the little ghost torn into two halves and eaten. Tang Minghuang asked his name, he said Zhong Nanshan scholar Zhong Kui. Because of the ugly appearance in the lift and not lift hit the temple and died, after death into a ghost king, vowed to remove the world's evil spirits. Ming Emperor woke up long illness healed, then ordered the great painter Wu Daozi see according to the dream painted Zhong Kui ghost hunting map passed on to future generations, this is the origin of Zhong Kui ghost hunting.
This is a Tianjin Yang Liu Qing New Year painting. The picture uses a combination of overlay and hand-painted production techniques, both to maintain the artistic characteristics of woodblock prints, but also highlights the bright and colorful style of hand-painted, into the Forbidden City, the three palaces and six courtyards, loved by the Imperial Consort Palace, and therefore known as the Palace New Year's Paintings.
This is the Sichuan Mianzhu New Year paintings. Mianzhu New Year's Paintings use lines that are refined, smooth, rigid and soft, and have a strong sense of rhythm. This is a "deer and crane with spring" harmonic "six contracts spring", east, west, south, north, heaven, earth for the six, implying that everywhere is spring. This is a door god class, the same symbolism and Yangjiabu New Year's paintings. This is "Gua Zi Scholar", showing the beautiful man Scholar in official uniform. This is Mu Guiying, the only female door god in Mianzhu year paintings for Mu Guiying, the heroine of Sichuan opera.
This is the Henan Zhuxianzhen New Year Painting. It is made with a combination of woodblock and skeleton plates, and watermarked overlay colors. The themes and contents are mostly historical dramas, novels, myths and legends. This one is a celestial fairy child, a man and a woman are Guan Shiyin's co-servants, the woman is a dragon lady and the man is a good fortune child. According to legend, there was an elder in Fucheng who had 500 sons, and Shan Cai was one of them. When he was born, all kinds of treasures suddenly came out from the ground inside the house, so he asked a doctor to give him a face reading and named him Shan Cai. But Shan Cai was born without love of wealth and vowed to cultivate his nature to become a Buddha. When he went to Manjushri to ask for advice on Buddhism, Manjushri said to him, "Go to the south and look for Kung Tek Yun, who said, "Go to Haimen Kingdom and look for the monk Shan Zu. In this way, Shan Cai*** worshipped fifty-three famous teachers, and after a thousand pains and suffering with a sincere heart, he finally touched the Bodhisattva Pu Xian to realize his wish to become a Buddha. In order to test his sincerity to the Buddha, the Goddess of Mercy disguised as a boatman, set off a big storm to persuade him to go back, but he was not afraid of the Buddha's heart is firm, became the Goddess of Mercy's co-servant.
This is a Wuqiang New Year painting from Hebei province. Wuqiang New Year's paintings are mainly mythological, "there are ten points of New Year's paintings seven points of God", such as the God of the door, God of wealth, God of the stove, Goddess of Mercy, Goddess of Heaven and Earth and all the gods and so on. Wuqiang New Year's paintings are exaggerated in shape, full of composition, upright and powerful, bright and colorful, forming their own unique characteristics.
This is a Taiwanese New Year painting, which is seldom seen in mainland China and mainly focuses on the themes of good luck, peace and prosperity. This "Hong Fu Qi Tian" is based on the theme of good fortune, fortune, prayer and joy. This piece of "Peace in the Family" uses apes as the object of expression, meaning that the good wishes for peace in the family can be traced back to the barbaric times and forever. With the development of the times, Taiwan's New Year's Paintings have innovated in the printing process, and new forms of expression, such as electronically produced New Year's Paintings, silkscreen New Year's Paintings, and gelatinized New Year's Paintings, have continued to appear.
The following attraction is the Yangjiabu Nianhua Engraving Workshop and Nianhua Production Workshop.
This is the workshop for carving plates for New Year's Paintings. Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings are printed in sets, and there are several plates for several colors. The plate is the life of the painting, so engraving in the production process of New Year's paintings is a process of the highest technical requirements, without a few years of experience is not good. Master Yan Kechen has been engaged in engraving for more than 30 years, and he is skillful and comfortable with the operation. The production of engraved plates here still adopts the production process of 600 years ago, so you can have a glimpse of the production skills of 600 years ago. Carving plate has three steps, one is the selection of materials, in the past the plate are Tong Li wood, this material is fine and hard, non-perishable, not easy to deform, the longer the age of the tree, the better the material. Now this kind of tree is not much, replaced by pear wood, can achieve the same effect. The second is the rotten draft, also known as the draft, the draft, after the rotten draft as the base of the plate, turn and paste on the prepared board. The third is engraved, engraved plate and divided into line plate and color plate, that is, there are several colors on several plates. Engraving tools are carving knife, knife, digging knife, knife, knife, knife, and saw, planer, shovel, brush, etc., the knives used are Yangjiabu artists according to the requirements of the New Year's paintings made by themselves. The basic method of engraving is anyway part, happy method. Line plate engraving, printing several pieces of line drawings, against the painting sample divided into outstanding plate before engraving the color plate.
This is the workshop for making New Year paintings. Woodblock color printing is a traditional craft in Yangjiabu, passed down from generation to generation. To print well, each has its own tricks and skills. Printing craftsmen have cases, handles, support mills, enameling, support boards, supports, clamps, color pots, paper cutters, baseboards, kongs, etc. The earliest color printing workshop in Yangjiabu had only four colors. The earliest colors in Yangjiabu were only four, namely: black (smoky), red (Su red), yellow (acacia yellow), green (acacia mantis green), all homemade. In seeing the ancient acacia we raised the question of what role the acacia tree plays in Yangjiabu's painting industry, and here there has been a satisfactory answer. Yangjiabu prints New Year's paintings in the order of cutting off the paper, calling the paper, printing the line plate, overprinting the color plate, and finally cutting and drying the paintings. Printing and painting when the plate should be right, the paper should be pulled flat, the color should be brushed evenly, enamel line plate to go heavy, color plate to go light. More color is easy to flood, color dry color is not all, the requirements of the picture is dry, but also dense flowers, not stained all around is a good painting. Looks simple without 3 years of experience can not do, here Yang master engaged in the painting industry has been more than 50 years, has been to Japan, South Korea, Germany and other countries to perform. Well, if you are interested, you may want to experience the feeling of printing New Year's paintings yourself.
Now you come to the Yangjiabu Ancient Shop Street, which is restored and remodeled according to the old appearance of Yangjiabu's prosperous period, and it brings together the essence of traditional Chinese folk crafts. The next attraction is the Folk Art Gallery, where there is a collection of ancient folk art display and unique crafts. You can appreciate the exquisite art of paper-cutting, you can visit the 300-year-old mahogany inlaid silver culture, you can appreciate the magic of clay sculpture culture, you can understand the skillful work of the face sculpture culture.
It is the art of paper-cutting. Weifang paper-cutting has a long history of more than 300 years, it has a unique style and rich artistic connotation. The works of rough and delicate, simple but not monotonous, vivid and evocative artistic effect and famous, is a rare folk art treasures. This is the cloth culture show, local rural women in their spare time with handmade some auspicious objects. Such as purse, needle tie, cattle, horses, sheep, chickens and other trinkets, simple and lovely, quite interesting.
This is the cultural art of face molding. Face molding is commonly known as pinching people, also known as Jiangmire people, which is a household name, the public enjoy a kind of folk art. Noodle works are mainly made of fabrics, through the ingenious method to make colorful; characters, animals, flowers, plants and trees with different interests, with a rich folk style and elegant artistic connotation.
This is the mahogany inlaid silver exhibition hall. Mahogany embedded silver is a unique folk art in Weifang, with a history of 300 years, for the Royal Palace of things. It is perfect craftsmanship, unique techniques, novel ideas, reputation at home and abroad. The museum displays this "China's four great beauties", is Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan and Yang Yuhuan.
This is the exhibition hall of Mr. Hu Shiming, the master of Chinese root carving art. The works are exquisite, vivid, and attract attention for their refinement, size and special features, which is an eye-opening experience after visiting the museum. Mr. Hu Shiming is the vice chairman of China Root Artists Association, executive director of China Heritage Association, vice president of China Calligraphy and Painting Society. Since childhood by his grandfather's cultivation of love for the art of root carving, visit Liu Kaiqu as a teacher, works have won many awards. Mr. Hu Shiming was awarded the title of "Chinese Master of Arts and Crafts" by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
This is the clay sculpture exhibition hall, the museum displays since ancient times to the present Peking Opera face and Peking Opera clown characters, it is a unique modeling, thousands of forms, is China's unique art treasures. It is the masterpiece of Mr. Shi Jiande. Mr. Shi Jiande is a member of the Chinese Folk Literary Artists Association, a director of the Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute, a vice-chairman of the North China Artists Association, and a senior honorary academician of the Shenzhou Art Institute in Singapore as an invited sculptor. He loves clay art since childhood, engaged in clay sculpture production has reached more than 40 years. 99 years of UNESCO in Shandong Qufu held a large-scale celebration of the birth of Confucius 2,550 years, his sculpture of Confucius and seventy-two sages of large-scale clay works shocked at home and abroad. CCTV, Hong Kong Phoenix Satellite Television, the U.S. Scola TV network, Shandong TV, China Radio International have made special reports.?
Please look at the mountain on the right for the Yuntai Mountain, the towering pavilion on the mountain is in accordance with the historical records of the restoration of the "Chang'e moon stage". Every year in August mid-autumn, people look at the bright moon in the sky, will naturally recall the beautiful legend about Chang'e, but very few people do know that Chang'e is from Yuntai Mountain to run to the moon. According to historical records, Chang'e was the daughter of ?àncê, one of the five emperors in ancient times. She was married to Hou Yi, a tribal leader. Hou Yi was very powerful and strong in martial arts, and with the assistance of the tribes, he captured the Xia capital at one stroke. After becoming the emperor, Hou Yi did not cultivate civil affairs and ignored the government. Sustainability was a young, handsome and resourceful general under Hou Yi, who was loved by his subjects and Chang'e was also in love with him. Sustainability designed to kill Houyi and founded the ancient state of Han in his hometown, which is now known as the Han Ting district, and Chang'e settled there with Sustainability. Chang'e's marriage aroused the hatred of a group of advocates of feudal rites and rituals. She couldn't stand the mockery of the world, and stole the immortality pill from the Queen Mother and ascended to the moon. The Huangtu Gaobu at the foot of everyone is called Yuntai Mountain, which is rumored to be the place where Chang'e ran to the moon, and now the Chang'e Moon Run Platform has been constructed to commemorate the event.
This north-south high gate courtyard, is the original appearance of the Ming Dynasty Longqing two years Hengshun paintings store, the owner of the house lifted so high meaning high up never decline. We see the indentations on the green stone boards on both sides of the steps, which are made by the child's buttocks, and you can imagine the long history of it. This is a typical house of Paint Shop, where you can see the elaborate layout of the courtyard, the New Year's culture and the posting of New Year's paintings. On both sides of the high gate is the lookout house, which is the common name of the original painting store; the grass room on the north side is the place where the master lives; the west room is the mill, which is convenient for daily life; the east room is the private school, which is a place to hire a teacher to educate the offspring. The east side of the north house is where the old people live, also known as the mother-in-law's room, where you can see the past stove and kang. It is very delicate to put up New Year's paintings. The street door is decorated with the God of Martial Arts, the wall is decorated with the lamps of Fuzi, the door of the hall is decorated with the God of Wenmen, the door of the inner room is decorated with the strips of beauties, the back door of the hall is decorated with the God of Zhenzhai (tiger) and the God of Zhenzhai (eagle), the door of the fence is decorated with the ghosts of the pig-beating, the cooker is decorated with the king of the stove, the God of Wenwu (God of Wealth) is decorated with the hall, and the front of the hall is decorated with the family hall. The left side of the house for the God of Wealth than Gan, here posted on display is the God of Wealth category, congratulations on wealth is people's best wishes, visit the God of Wealth wish to protect your financial resources, five blessings with the increase.