New Year wood-block prints are a traditional folk art form with a long history in China, with a history of more than one thousand years. Jinhua New Year pictures also have a very long history and are an important intangible cultural heritage of Jinhua, with a long history and full of interest.
From the morning of March 8th, 82 pieces of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China wood-block prints from Jinhua Wood-block prints Museum will wait quietly in Lanxi Museum, bringing the audience into the world with a long history, complicated technology, colorful and auspicious New Year pictures.
Jinhua wood pictures museum is located in Jinhua pond ya town, is a collection of pictures protection, inheritance, research, research, exhibition, development, creation, tourism, experience and other functions of the museum, is currently the third largest museum of the pictures, is also the only wood in east China museum, museum collection of more than 2600, more than 100 sets, engraving more than 800 pieces (some is Ming, qing, during the period of the republic of China and engraving).
It has been appointed by the Chinese New Year Picture Art Committee as the only Chinese innovative New Year painting base in China, the only wood-block New Year painting base in Zhejiang province, and the Jinhua City intangible cultural heritage publicity and exhibition base by Jinhua City.
The exhibition is divided into five chapters: praying for blessings, driving evil spirits, gods, humor and satire, and auspicious beasts. Some of the fine works are rare solitary versions of the Qing Dynasty.
The New Year pictures in Jinhua area mostly use folk stories, auspicious festivals, idols, operas, current affairs and other themes, with symbolic, implication and exaggerated techniques, to express people’s wishes for a better future in the future.
Through one piece of work, we seem to be in the New Year pictures ideal, happy, beautiful world, in the appreciation of the New Year pictures art at the same time also wash the heart, harvest the vision.
(Lanxi City Museum)