This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of Shizuishan City in Ningxia. At the site of the Achievement Exhibition of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Shizuishan City, a one-hundred-meter scroll attracted the attention of visitors.
The painting is a large-scale genre painting "The Prosperous Times of the Ancient City" created by Wang Hongxi, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Ningxia Artists Association, a farmer painter in Shizuishan City, and his sons Wang Xuejun and Wang Xuegang.
The reporter saw at the scene that the painting was 115 meters long and 0.98 meters wide.
The work is based on the historical story of Emperor Kangxi's inspection of Ningxia in the Qing Dynasty. On the basis of reading chronicles, visiting experts, field investigations, in-depth research, excavation and sorting, it reproduces the production and life scenes at that time, innovative construction in content, and moderate exaggeration in creation. , Meticulously processed in art, concentrated on depicting the customs of Shizuishan.
The paintings capture the scenery by constantly moving the viewpoint, ranging from rivers and city outlines, to various characters, vivid animals, and various houses, shops, terraces, pavilions, and bridge towers.
There are as many as 5849 people in the painting, but their clothes and activities are all different, which is very interesting.
The paintings are combined with distance and closeness, and the density and density are combined. The painted scenery highlights the scenery of Shizuishan mountains, rivers and lakes, showing the various humanities of ordinary people, and has a strong atmosphere of production and life. It is an important image material for understanding the historical evolution and changes of Shizuishan and even Ningxia. Shizuishan version of "Surfing the River on Qingming Festival"
(Reporter Li Peishan edited Lu Huiqian)
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]