Shandong Local Characteristics
Weifang Kites
Shandong kites are the most famous in Weifang, which has a kite museum with 1,400 pieces of various kites and a 1,600 square meters flying hall, which can be divided into "hard-winged" and "soft-winged", "stringed", "three-dimensional", etc. Kites are greatly influenced by local New Year paintings and folk decorations. The kites can be divided into "hard wing" and "soft wing", "string class", "three-dimensional class" and so on. Weifang kites are greatly influenced by local New Year paintings and folk decorations, and have good aesthetic and collection value.
Three Folk Arts"
Puffy New Year Painting
Gaomi Puffy New Year Painting, originated in the Ming Dynasty during the Chenghua period, is a kind of puffy ash draft hand-painted New Year painting, the place of origin is mainly distributed in the northern townships of Gaomi, more than 30 villages in the area of Jiangzhuang, Xiazhuang. Early ash New Year's paintings were mainly ink and wash, and gradually developed from the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty to use color instead of ink, and tended to be colorful.
Because of the large brush strokes and the free flow, there is a flavor of wiping, artists call it "wiping paintings". Most of the contents are festive and suitable for posting during festivals. "Gossip of Aunt and Sister-in-law", "Playing Shuttlecock", "All the Best", "Fortune and Peace", "The Eight Immortals Celebrating Longevity", "The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden", "Fortune and Longevity", "Two Children Offering Longevity", "Fan Beauty", "Four Seasons Flower Screen", "Family Hall" and so on are the representative works of the ash New Year's paintings.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the works were sold to Yantai, Linyi, Xuzhou, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China. Now, or it has a unique technique, rough style, has caused experts and scholars pay great attention to, become a research collection of treasures. The National Art Museum of China, the Capital Museum, China Folk Art Museum, Shandong Provincial Museum have collections.
More than a dozen representative works are introduced in the Complete Book of Chinese Fine Arts, and teachers and students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts have also used the pressed-ash New Year's paintings as a blueprint for copying and research and as a teaching material.
Mud sculpture
Gaomi Niejiazhuang a poor family of artists from the pinch pot flower began; through the Zhuang artisans from generation to generation, so that it is from coarse to fine, from the simple shape to the complex structure of the production of the production of the evolution of the development of the present shape and color, sound, movement, all the best folk handicrafts. The main products are "Tiger", "Monkey", "Cicada", "Chicken", "Lion", "Mud Crafts", and "Clay Crafts". ", "Clay Doll", "Shepherd Boy", "Flower Girl", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai ", "Liu Hai playing the Golden Toad", "Eight Immortals" and other 70 varieties.
These products have been sold for a long time since they entered the market, and demand exceeds supply. Nie Jiazhuang clay sculpture, rough and bold, complete composition, colorful, unique. Therefore, in the provinces and cities to participate in the folk arts and crafts exhibition held in successive awards, was included in the "Chinese folk arts and crafts dictionary", has been to nine countries and regions for exhibition, but also by the Soong Ching Ling Foundation collection, and as a gift to foreign dignitaries.
Paper cutting
Gao Mi folk paper cutting, a long history, the origin is difficult to test. From the excavation of folk paper-cutting works, it is widely circulated in Gaomi and popularization of time, no later than the time of the rise of the ash yearbook. The early years of the Ming Dynasty Hongwu, a large number of immigrants moved into the high density, which has a lot of folk paper-cutting artists, will be different styles of paper-cutting art to the high density, dissolved in one, the formation of the high density of folk paper-cutting art style.
Gaomi folk paper-cutting in the art of unity of opposites, block and line to form a black, white, gray tones, set off against each other, contrasting and full of rhythm; lines strong and upright, with a taste of gold and stone; composition of exaggerated deformation is not distorted; rough in the see the clean, childish in the hidden subtlety. Gaomi folk paper-cutting, in the content of a wide range of materials, a strong sense of life, and to send people's best wishes.
"Window", "shoe", "roof flowers", "bun flowers" to letter to the characters, Animals, birds and flowers, stories as the theme of paper-cutting works, are loved by the masses. Since the reform and opening up, Gaomi folk paper-cutting has gone global, not only become a gift for people abroad, and many times exhibited abroad, 20 works in the national paper-cutting contest awards, there are 3 paper-cutting girls with the delegation to Japan, Austria, paper-cutting performances, known as the "women's magic cut".
Yangjiabu woodblock prints Hanting District Yangjiabu woodblock prints created in the Ming Dynasty, to the end of the Ming Dynasty has reached maturity, to the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, entered its heyday, at this time, and Tianjin Yang Liuqing, Suzhou Peach Blossom Dock and known as China's three major woodblock prints city.
Yangjiabu Village presents the situation of "hundreds of painting stores, thousands of paintings" and "every family can dye, every household is good at painting". With the changes of the times, Yangjiabu woodblock prints after several years of decline. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Office of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, in order to rescue this folk art, reproduce the glory of the past, Hanting District set up a woodblock prints of Yangjiabu Institute, restarted excavation and finishing, research and innovation.
After more than a decade of efforts, has now collected the traditional painting version of the 5000 edition of the New Year's paintings data set. At the same time, and develop and innovate the yearbook page, yearbook calendar, congratulatory piece of 30 yearbook products, innovative engraving new yearbook 50. with the deepening of reform and opening up and the Weifang International Kite Festival, Yangjiabu woodblock prints are increasingly being noticed by the world, and will surely promote the opening up of Hanting to the outside world to play a greater role.
Shandong Festival
Qufu Confucius Cultural Festival
Time for the annual September 26 to October 10, spanning the entire Golden Week, so you love history and culture you can not miss ah. Introduction: September 28 is the birth anniversary of the great thinker and educator Confucius. Since 1989, Confucius' hometown of Qufu has hosted the China Confucius International Cultural Festival, with a Confucian music and dance festival in front of the Dacheng Hall of the Confucian Temple, to commemorate Confucius' outstanding contributions to human culture and to promote oriental culture.
Jinan Spring Water Culture Week
In September every year, there will be a large square cultural evening and fireworks and experience spring water culture and other activities in Quancheng Square; Daming Lake has a triathlon competition; in the southern mountainous areas of the "Nanshan Water Festival" and so on.
Taishan Dongyue Temple Festival
Annual March 28th in the lunar calendar Introduction: originated in the Tang Dynasty, the birth anniversary of Dongyue Emperor (i.e., March 28th) as the main content of the temple fair in Taishan, and later added folk performances, Taishan Wangmu Pond Peach Fair, Peach Blossom Festival, Pear Blossom Tourist Festival, Spring Tourism Fellowship, Taishan Feudal Ritual Performance, the Dongyue Temple Yanqing fight performance, and so on.
Qingdao Cherry Blossom Festival
The cherry blossom season is in full bloom from mid-April to early May every year. Qingdao's Cherry Blossom Festival began in the 1930s, and the cherry blossoms in Zhongshan Park, known as the "Sea of Flowers in the East Garden", are one of the ten most beautiful sights in Qingdao.
Qingdao International Beer Festival
Opened on the first Saturday of mid-August, the festival lasts 16 days. It is a familiar festival to all. The festival consists of opening ceremony, beer tasting, cultural evening, art parade, sports and entertainment, drinking competition, tourism and leisure, economic and trade exhibitions, closing ceremony, etc.; held in Qingdao International Beer City.
Penglai Fishing Lantern Festival
The festival is held on the 13th and 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, fishermen have to Penglai Pavilion Dragon King Palace to send lamps, tribute, praying for the safety of the sea and fisheries harvest, and then changed to set up offerings for the ship, send fishing lanterns, firecrackers, while holding entertainment.
Shandong International Ski Festival
Every year at the end of November, held in early December, China Shandong International Ski Festival in 2009 has gone through 11 years. After 11 years of building, ski festival has become the Shandong winter tourism business card, China's ski tourism industry development of the flag and spokesman, but also become the pride and joy of the people of Longjiang. Ski festival attracted many ski enthusiasts, the opening ceremony has a grand show of figure skiing and so on.
Expanded Information
Shandong, named for the east of the Taihang Mountains, or "Lu" for short, the provincial capital Jinan. In the pre-Qin period, it belonged to the state of Qi and the state of Lu, so it was also known as Qilu. Shandong is located on the east coast of China, the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the north central section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and is the northernmost province in east China.
West for the Huanghuaihai Plain, connected to the Central Plains, northwest and Hebei Province, bordering southwest and Henan Province, south and southeast of Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces, respectively; central Luzhong mountainous area, the terrain is high, Taishan is the highest point of the whole territory; Shandong Peninsula in the east, stretching into the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea, the north of the Bohai Straits and the Liaodong Peninsula relative to the capital city of Beijing, the east of the Yellow Sea and the Korean Peninsula, southeast of the Yellow Sea, looking east and northeast of the Yellow Sea and the Great Canal in the north, so the name of Qilu. Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the southern islands of Japan.
Shandong is the birthplace of Confucianism, the founder of Confucianism, Confucius of Qufu, Mencius of Zoucheng, and Mozi of Tengzhou, the founder of Mozi, military Sun Zi, etc., were born in present-day Shandong. Jiang Taigong established the state of Qi in Linzi, accomplishing a large number of celebrities and aspirants such as Qi Huan Gong, Guan Zhong, Yan Ying, Bao Shu Ya, Sun Wu, Sun Bin, Zou Yan, etc.; Qi also created the Jixi Academy, the first officially-organized and privately-sponsored institution of higher learning in the world.
Shandong Province is China's third largest province in terms of economy, the second largest province in terms of population, and the home of China's temperate fruits, with its GDP ranking third in the country, accounting for 1/11 of China's total GDP. 2013, Shandong, along with Guangdong and Jiangsu, was named China's most comprehensively competitive province and region.
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