New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening NewsCinemaAll-media Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty Li Yuanqing
When you mention the East 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 for the third sacrifice to the Kitchen God and worshiping the God of Wealth on the second day of the Chinese New Year, which were once an indispensable part of the Lingnan Spring Festival, but are gradually fading away with the development of the times. Recently, Southern Media and Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs, including not only the Buddha’s woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper-cut national intangible cultural heritage projects, but also the Lingnan New Year Customs Publications, the traditional Lingnan Hall, and the paintings of famous artists in Lingnan. The exhibition lasts until February 28. The highlight of the exhibition is two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that are very Guangdong-style and integrate traditional New Year customs culture – Foshan 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, and flourished in the Qing dynasties. From the early Republic of China, they were as famous as Yangliuqing, Tianjin, Taohuawu, Suzhou, and Weifang, Shandong. They were the same as China.One of the four major woods Babaylan‘s New Year pictures. It was once an important decoration for homes and doors in Lingnan. It was a popular product for homes and houses in the past. It was sold well in Lingnan and even 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 time. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, son of the famous New Year painting artist Feng Jun (nicknamed “Komiksdoor godKomiks), gave up his original career, studied and studied again in order to fulfill his father’s last wish, so that the woodblock New Year paintings could be seen again. The Feng New Year Painting Workshop he founded is the only existing workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition is the full set of production tools and production processes of the Feng New Year Painting Workshop, as well as representative works such as “Door God” and “Komiks”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures are depicted with a knife pen to deeply mark the Lingnan imprint; exquisite carved sheets pass on the unique New Year customs and blessings from the past to the present. Komiks
GuangdongPaper 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, Shantou Chaoyang, Leizhou and other places. They not only inherit the ancient intangible cultural heritage skills in authenticity, show the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, but also combine the preferences of modern people to boldly innovate in artistic style and picture content.