On October 17th, Zhao Zongbiao’s 24 solar terms woodcut exhibition was held in the Xiaofeng Book House of the Splendid Gallery of the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou. The theme of this exhibition is “Beautiful Jiangnan, a Moment of Freedom”, and hundreds of woodcut works related to the 24 solar terms carved by Zhao Zongbiao are exhibited, showing the beauty of the Jiangnan landscape, the prosperity of the scenery and the depth of humanity. The exhibition will be on view until November 17.
On the 17th, tourists were visiting Zhao Zongbiao’s 24 solar terms woodcarving exhibition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Guangyao
“The solar terms are the cultural code of the agricultural era, and although the agricultural era has passed, the solar terms are not outdated. The solar terms can keep track of time and bring people a happy mood. Zhao Zongbiao said that solar terms can make people live ordinary days more poetic, more beautiful, and more nostalgic.
Zhao Zongbiao, a newspaperman, writer, woodcut artist, and a member of the Zhejiang Writers Association. In his view, Jiangnan is not only a geographical term, but also an image, is the elegance of Tang poetry, the gentleness of Song poetry, the scattering of Yuan song, the beauty of mountains and rivers, the prosperity of scenery, and the thickness of humanity, “My woodcuts, around Jiangnan and my hometown, sky, earth, rivers, flowers and fruits, homeland, homeland, are the main objects of expression in my woodcuts.” ”
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On the 17th, Zhao Zongbiao shared his creative experience at the opening ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Guangyao
With a carving knife and a piece of wood, Zhao Zongbiao presents the beautiful Jiangnan and poetic hometown in the form of woodcuts. In the past ten years, Zhao Zongbiao has created more than 500 woodcuts in the Jiangnan series. Beyond words, he finds another way of expression in the texture of trees: “When the carving knife swims on a wooden plate, the flowers bloom enchantingly, the fish dive under the water, the birds fly in the sky, and a crescent moon rises on the side of the mountain, like a spirit waiting for the earth.” In a mountain and a water, a cloud and a rain, a flower and a fruit, there is the poetry of the south of the Yangtze River and the beauty of the old garden. Zhao Zongbiao said.
Zhao Zongbiao’s woodcut works have been published in many newspapers and periodicals such as “People’s Daily”, “Xinmin Evening News”, “Wen Wei Po”, etc., and have been developed into a variety of cultural and creative products, which have appeared in cultural exhibitions such as Shenzhen Cultural Fair, Hangzhou Cultural Fair, Shanghai Book Fair, and Beijing Book Fair for many times, and have also been selected by Zhejiang Huayun Culture Group and Zhejiang Gongshang University Press for two consecutive years, and published as “2020 Solar Term Calendar” and “2021 Solar Term Calendar”.
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This is the exhibition site taken on the 17th. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Guangyao
It is reported that this exhibition is the seventh stop of the “Guardian City Light · Bookstore Support Program”. This year’s epidemic has caused many industries to encounter a cold snap. Three months ago, Lexus and One-Way Space launched the “Guardian City Light · Bookstore Support Program”, joining hands with 11 well-known bookstores with iconic significance in 7 cities of Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Beijing, in order to shine the light of culture in the city and add more cultural heritage and humanistic feelings to the city.
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Yang Jianwu, deputy director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, delivered a speech
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Yang Jianwu, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, commented on Zhao Zongbiao’s works with “black and white world, sword and pen magic skills”, he said: “Writing is to write black characters on white paper with a pen; The portrayal is to use a knife to carve a white painting on a black wooden plate, between black and white, knife and pen, Zong Biao shows his divine skill. ”