The documentary "New Year's Paintings" focuses on Yangliu Youth Paintings - the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship from generation to generation
Sketching, engraving, printing, painting, mounting... After the meticulous and meticulous processes, a vivid painting of Yangliu Youth was lively presented in front of people's eyes, adding a festive festivity.
This is the opening scene of the documentary "New Year's Paintings".
This 5-episode documentary, jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and the Xiqing District Party Committee, describes the inheritance and innovation of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in Tianjin, the Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures.
"Intangible cultural heritage protection needs our attention" "Looking forward to the New Year, the scene of posting New Year pictures is vivid in my mind"... With the popularity of the documentary, messages and heated discussions followed.
Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures originated in the Ming Dynasty. In the course of more than 400 years of development, it has gradually formed a complex process flow, reflecting its unique craftsmanship of combining carving and painting.
"Intangible cultural heritage is not 'things', the technology and history of making and forming them are the real intangible cultural heritage. The intangible cultural heritage skills of making New Year pictures are carried on the paper of the New Year pictures." Chen, consultant of "New Year's Paintings" Yong said.
Mr. Wang Shucun, a Chinese folk art historian who grew up in the ancient town of Yangliuqing, dedicated his life to the excavation and protection of Yangliuqingqing paintings. Even when he was approaching the end of his life, he was most concerned about "that piece of paper".
Grandson Wang Jin took over the baton from his grandfather, collected and organized more than 6,000 Yangliuqingqing paintings, and sent them to exhibitions for free for many times, just to let everyone see the real Yangliuqingqing paintings.
Liu Jie, the engraving master of the Yangliuqing Painting Society, still uses the two crescent crescent knives that the master made for him when he stepped into the industry more than 30 years ago.
Behind each New Year's picture, there is an intensive study of art.
Liu Jie devoted his life to the exploration of traditional techniques.
Huo Qingyou, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project in his 70s, is the inheritor of Huo's ancient Yangliuqing woodblock New Year picture.
He said: "My ancestors made New Year pictures for nearly a hundred years, and I can't stop them in my generation." In order to continue his skills, he started from the links of making iron carving knives and purchasing pigments and rice paper, and connected the "industrial chain" of Yangliuqingqing paintings. Reconnected.
"New Year's Paintings" depicts more than 30 characters full of emotion and tension, including non-genetic inheritors, teachers and students of art colleges, descendants of old New Year's picture shops, and new-generation New Year's picture workers.
The film presents the current thinking on the protection, inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage with rigorous historical research, real creative details and warm artistic emotions.
"This work shows a strong nostalgia, the persistence and pursuit of excellent traditional culture by generations of watchmen," said Zu Guang, the chief director of the film.
Zhang Ling, the chief writer and executive director of the film, lamented that during the more than two years of filming, she and her team members shed tears on the filming site several times.
"We must face up to the 'time difference' between intangible cultural heritage and contemporary life, and hope that more young people will join the ranks of protecting and inheriting intangible cultural heritage. Times are changing, life is changing, and how to maintain integrity and innovate intangible cultural heritage is a proposition that needs constant thinking. ." Zhang Ling said.
Our reporter Wu Shaomin Jin Bo