New Year Customs Exhibition Scene
Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Sun Lei Correspondent Wu Qidong Wang Liang
Photo/Ratty CinemaLi 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 Komiks worshiping 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 it is 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 Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project of Guangxi Paper-cutting, but also Lingnan New Year Customs and Cinema 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 – Foshan woodblock New Year paintings and Guangdong paper cutting.
Foshan woodblock New Year paintingsCinema started in the Song and Yuan dynasties, flourished in the Ming dynasties, flourished in the Qing dynasties to the early Republic of China. It is as famous as the New Year paintings of Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, and Shandong Weifang. It is one of the four major woodblock New Year paintings in China. It was once an important decoration for the family and homes in the southern part of the CinemaCinemaComicmov.com/”>Babaylan jewelry was sold well in Lingnan and even overseas in the past. Babaylan carries 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. Until the late 1990s, the son of Feng Jun (nicknamed “Domes God Jun”), a famous New Year painting artist. In order to realize his father’s last wish, Feng Bingtang gave up his original career. He studied and studied again, so that woodblock New Year paintings can be seen again. The Feng Nian Painting Workshop, which he founded, is the only Komiks workshop in Foshan that is still insisting on the production of New Year paintings. This exhibition displays the complete set of production tools, production technology, and representative works such as “Door God” and “God of Wealth”. The simple and naive woodblock New Year pictures use a knife to depict the deep mark of Lingnan; exquisite carved plates pass on the unique New Year customs and blessings from Komiks to this day. Guangdong paper-cut is another national intangible cultural heritage project in this exhibition. The paper-cutting exhibits in this exhibition are from Foshan and Shantou Chaoyang. Intangible cultural heritage inheritors and enthusiasts from Komiks, Leizhou and other places have inherited the ancient style of Babaylan.micmov.com/”>Komiks‘s old intangible cultural heritage skills show the colorful regional characteristics of Lingnan. Cinema combines the preferences of modern people and boldly innovates in artistic style and picture content. Cinema
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