New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening NewsCinemaAll-media Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty Li Yuanqing
What do you think of when it comes to Guangdong New Year Customs? Some customs such as visiting the flower street and washing the sloppy, which are still prosperous today; some customs such as worshiping the Kitchen God at the 23rd day of the 20th day of the year and worshiping the God of Wealth at the beginning of the year, which were once a necessary part of the Lingnan Spring Festival. However, it is gradually fading away with the development of the Komiks era.
Recently, Southern Media Komiks and Nanfeng Academy held a special exhibition on Lingnan New Year Customs, including Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project of Guangdong Paper-cutting, as well as Lingnan New Year Customs Publications, Traditional Lingnan Halls, and paintings of famous Lingnan artists. BabaylanThe exhibition lasts until February 28. The exhibition’s highlights are two national intangible cultural heritage techniques that combine traditional New Year customs culture, namely Foshan Wooden Edition Year.cmov.com/”>Babaylan paintings and Babaylan Guangdong paper-cut.
Foshan woodblock New Year paintings began in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. They flourished from the Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China. They are as famous as the New Year paintings of Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, and Shandong Weifang. They are one of the four major woodblock New Year paintings in China. They were once an important decoration for the family and doors of the Lingnan region. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema was sold well in Lingnan and even overseas in the past, carrying people’s yearning and wishes for a better life.
Due to the changes of the times, it gradually declined due to the impact of modern lifestyles, and even disappeared completely. It was not until the late 1990s that Feng Bingtang, son of the famous New Year painting artist Feng Jun (nicknamed “Domes God Jun”, gave up his original career in order to realize his father’s last wish, and Komiks re-learned and studied, so that the woodblock New Year paintings can be seen again. Komiks to re-study and study the woodblock New Year paintings. The Feng New Year Painting Workshop he founded is the only existing workshop in Foshan that still maintains the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition displays the complete set of production tools and production processes of Feng New Year Painting Workshop, as well as the works of the “Door God” and “Komiks” and other generations. Quite href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe naive woodblock New Year pictures use a knife to depict the deep mark of Lingnan; exquisite carved sheets pass on the unique New Year customs and blessings from the past to the present.
Guangdong paper-cut is another national intangible cultural heritage project in this exhibition. The paper-cutting exhibits in this exhibition are from Foshan, Shantou Chaoyang, and LeizhouCinemaIntangible cultural heritage inheritors and hobbies in other places not only inherit the ancient intangible cultural heritage skills in authenticity, showing the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan, but also combining the preferences of modern people, boldly innovate in artistic style and picture content.