[Explanation] Woodblock New Year pictures are a traditional Chinese folk art form with a history of more than one thousand years.
A woodblock New Year picture that travels through the millennium includes the cultural beliefs and living customs of the local people.
There is a Liupanshan woodblock New Year pictures experience store in Beibao Western Film City, Yinchuan Town, Ningxia. The store manager Zhenbin is the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year pictures, and has been making Liupanshan woodblock New Year pictures for 16 years now.
[Concurrent] Ren Zhenbin, the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings
When I was a child, the deepest impression was that every household posted New Year pictures, and I felt that putting New Year pictures on the door of the house would create the atmosphere of the New Year.
In fact, this woodblock New Year picture, after the development of printing technology, the technology of printing pictures and texts has been spread to the people, so our artists who print New Year pictures have learned this printing technology and color registration.
[Explanation] Liupanshan woodblock New Year pictures are engraved with wood blocks, which have extremely high requirements for the craftsmen's carving skills. In addition to the basic ink line block, three wood blocks of red, yellow, and blue are also carved, which are printed on the New Year pictures through repeated printing. color effect.
[Concurrent] Ren Zhenbin, the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings
For our woodblock New Year pictures, woodblock engraving is the most important step, and it is also related to the printing quality.
For example, if you engrave well and finely, the printing will naturally be beautiful.
That is, the printing plates we have have been used for more than 100 years, and the quality is still good. I have to admire the magic of the printing technique of our ancestors.
[Explanation] Liupanshan woodblock New Year pictures have a unique artistic style. The overall composition of the New Year pictures is full, the shape is generous, the lines are concise, and the colors are bright. It is one of the main producing areas of New Year pictures in Northwest China.
[Concurrent] Ren Zhenbin, the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings
In terms of creative content, in addition to "Qin Qiong Jingde" and "Shen Tu Yu Lei" in other parts of the country, our New Year pictures also include characters in novels, such as the characters in "Feng Shen Yan Yi" and "Sui Tang Romance" All the heroes in the novel can be expressed in this picture.
[Explanation] In order to keep up with the pace of the times and meet the tastes of young people, Ren Zhenbin also made reforms and innovations in the creation of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings.
[Concurrent] Ren Zhenbin, the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings
It turned out to be a traditional fairy, a legendary figure.
The zodiac type we design now has some modern cultural elements in it, and young people prefer it.
[Explanation] Since Ren Zhenbin opened the Liupanshan Woodblock New Year Painting Experience Hall in Zhenbeibao Western Film City in 2006, both the sales and popularity of woodblock New Year paintings have greatly improved. In his opinion, the integration of culture and tourism is the tradition. The ultimate destination of craftsmanship.
[Concurrent] Ren Zhenbin, the sixth generation inheritor of Liupanshan woodblock New Year paintings
When tourists from other places come, they most want to know the original local traditional culture.
Now our New Year picture hall is mainly for tourists to experience printing. They can experience the process of printing New Year pictures and the fun of printing New Year pictures.
Xie Yu reports from Yinchuan, Ningxia
Responsible editor: [Zhou Chi]