The history and present of Yimeng folk paper-cut art
The Yimeng Mountain District, with Linyi City as the center, is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin, the birthplace of Chinese national culture. In the history of our country, it once had a glorious culture. This land of outstanding people has nurtured the great statesman and thinker Zhuge Liang, the great literary theorist Liu Xie, the outstanding calligrapher Wang Xizhi, etc., which have added glory to our Chinese nation.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the people of Yimeng established the Yimeng Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base with their own flesh and blood. Millions of outstanding sons and daughters fought bravely and tragically against the Japanese invaders to save the nation from peril. This is a glorious and magnificent event in the modern history of Yimeng. chapter. During the Anti-Japanese War, while creating revolutionary literary and artistic works, Yimeng soldiers and civilians also created some folk crafts with new content. This is a common feature of folk crafts in various old revolutionary areas in China, and should be taken seriously by researchers.
The rich and colorful Yimeng folk art originated from ancient culture. With its rich imagination, warm and lively, simple and unrestrained, it shows a unique artistic world and is quite prestigious. As early as 1964, it attracted the attention of the central and provincial Ministry of Culture. Many folk art works were collected here and participated in overseas folk art exhibitions. At that time, in the vast rural towns and villages of the 13 counties and cities in the region, as long as you pay attention, you can see folk art works that are closely related to the lives of the people. These popular printed fabrics, embroidery, paper-cutting, clay and wood toys, woodblock New Year pictures, shadow puppets, earthenware, etc. are not only practical for life and beautifying the environment, but also used to express peoples wishes, thoughts, feelings and aesthetic tastes. Distinctive local artistic characteristics.
Since the new era, the relevant leading departments of Linyi City have attached great importance to the excavation and arrangement of folk art, and organized art workers to go deep into the folk to collect and inspect. In 1980, they held the "District Folk Art Exhibition" and wrote A survey report on "Colorful Linyi Folk Art" was published. In 1982, more than 600 Linyi folk arts and crafts works were sent to Soong Ching Lings Former Residence Memorial Hall for display, display and gifts to international friends. During the Spring Festival of 1985, more than 2,000 folk toys from the Linyi area participated in the Spring Festival Toy Fair held by the Beijing Toy Research Association at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City. year 1987In September, the Shandong Provincial Art Museum collected more than 1,500 pieces of folk art in Linyi area and participated in the "Shandong Folk Art Exhibition" held in Hong Kong. In October 1995, 51 works were selected for the "Exhibition of Chinese Folk Art" sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, and one of them won a silver medal, accounting for one-third of the total number of exhibits in the province.
Nowadays, the clay toys of Xiaoguodong Village, Xingming Township, Cangshan County have been named the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Clay Sculptures" by the Ministry of Culture. Folk embroidery in Gaoqiao Town, Yishui County has become very popular in recent years, with a total of 20,000 people in the town. Among the remaining women, more than 8,000 are engaged in embroidery crafts all year round. The town of Yishui has been named the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Embroidery" by the Ministry of Culture. The "Three Wonders of Zhengcheng" are spinning wood toys, colored door paper, and woodblock New Year pictures, which have attracted the attention of the cultural department. Fan Nianmu plays with high and low stick figures, which are similar to Japanese humanoid toys. Japanese experts Saburo Ito, Yoshikazu Yoshida, and Ms. Sanshanling and others have come here many times to inspect the style and explore its origins.
In March 1996, the stone carving art of Yingnan County was named the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Stone Carving Art" by the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture. In terms of the inheritance and innovation of Yimeng paper-cut art, the "Water Margin Characters" paper-cut album jointly produced by Wang Bin and Tian Xuhong was affirmed and appreciated by Mr. Cao Zhenfeng, former deputy director of the National Art Museum of China and art critic. In the preface he wrote for it Pointed out: It is very difficult to create a group portrait of Liangshan characters. First, there are many characters with different origins, personalities and characteristics; second, the era is thousands of years ago, and there are very few clothing materials for reference in the Song Dynasty; third, the characters are prominently portrayed in the novel They are a minority, and there are more than 30 or 40 statues of Water Margin characters in the past dynasties. And it is rare that they dare to create statues for one hundred and eight heroes. I read all the paper-cut pictures in the album "Water Margin Characters" and I deeply felt the authors extraordinary painstaking efforts in creating. Every character depicted is full of vitality and has distinctive characteristics. Although in art, it has absorbed some styles from the predecessors, it is also There are great changes, which make up for the shortcomings of some ancient styles. There is also great innovation in the art of paper-cutting, which absorbs and uses modern printmaking techniques, emphasizing the effect of black and white contrast. The knife skills are versatile and free, giving the characters a three-dimensional sense of sculpture. Although there is little use of force on the characters' faces, their expressions are still subtly implied. Repainting the portraits of Liangshan heroes today is not just a nostalgia for the past, but will play a positive social role in the great construction of socialist modernization in the motherland.
Five paper-cut works created by Lin Huaqiang of Linyi Railway Station, including "Money Fish" and "Pine Age and Crane Life", have obtained national patent certificates. In August 2002, at the Qingdao International Beer Festival, his paper-cut "Wonderland" won the "Gold Award" for folk customs. During the Spring Festival, a row of colorful door paper hangs from the door of every house, fluttering in the wind, spring couplets and door paintings reflecting the white snow on the ground, making it look like a festival to get rid of the old and welcome the new.The Japanese scene is particularly rich. The "Fulu" color door stamp in Cangshan County is a relic from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is simple and rough and inherits the artistic style of ancient Pansheng and Han stone portraits. In terms of their artistic value, they are extremely precious. These ancient style door notes have been compiled into the "Complete Collection of Chinese Art". Traditional door notes also have characters, such as the door notes in Yingnan. In some halls, there is the word "吉" in it, and the horizontal inscription on it is "Eight Festivals of Peace". The lace on the left and right is a couplet: "Longevity is the same as the mountains, and happiness is everlasting." Together we will live forever." The new slogans with words include: Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Defend Home and Country, Love the Communist Party, Good Socialism and Reform and Opening Up, Revitalize Yimeng, etc. The words and patterns form a perfect whole and are praised by the masses as slogans with flowers. Cangshan, Zhengcheng, Linyi and Linmu have "dig-bu" door stickers, that is, color-coated door stickers. Such as Cangshans "Vase Flowers"
