Yangzhou engraving "Shizhu Map" attracted the attention of the world, and foreign friends picked up needlework and embroidery on the spot
Master Jiang Mingqiu showed Yang embroidery to foreign friends
European children experience engraving printing on site
Master Zhang Muli performed paper-cutting on the spot
Yangzhou elements amaze France
Engraving printing, paper-cutting, embroidery, guqin
From November 5th to 8th, 2015, the 21st World Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Paris, France (Louvre) was held in the Carrousel Hall of the Louvre Museum, France, with more than 300 exhibitors from all over the world displaying and exchanging hundreds of "intangible cultural heritage" items.
Jiangsu Good Oriental Group participated in the exhibition on behalf of Yangzhou, China, and the display content included: three intangible cultural heritage items of humanity: engraving printing, guqin art and Chinese paper-cutting, as well as four national intangible cultural heritage items such as Yangzhou embroidery, Yangzhou lacquerware, Yangzhou garden and Yangzhou pen.
In order to enable overseas counterparts and tourists to more intuitively understand the characteristics and connotation of Yangzhou culture, Good Oriental Group invited Li Jiangmin (engraving printing), Song Baowang (engraving printing), Zhang Muli (Chinese paper-cutting), Jiang Mingqiu (Yangzhou embroidery), Fan Jijian (Guangling guqin) and other intangible cultural heritage inheritors to participate in the exhibition in France. During the exhibition, the masters explained and demonstrated the historical inheritance, cultural connotation and technical characteristics of their respective intangible cultural heritage items, and their exquisite skills won praise from visitors from all over the world.
Engraving printing
The debut of "Caryophyllus" was very popular
Li Jiangmin, a master of engraving and printing, told reporters that he not only brought hundreds of his masterpieces to France, but also demonstrated the brush printing in the engraving printing process on the spot, "There are 9 kinds of "West Chamber" and "Dunhuang Mural Flying Map" that interact with visitors at the scene, attracting exhibitors from all over the world, and they are full of novelty to experience the traditional Chinese engraving and printing process, so during the exhibition in the past few days, the engraving printing display area is very popular. "
"When we received the invitation to participate in the 21st World Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Paris, France, we were asked to bring some creative works that represent Yangzhou culture to participate in the exhibition, and 'Yangzhou Eight Monsters' is a beautiful cultural business card of Yangzhou, and I think it can best represent Yangzhou's culture." According to Li Jiangmin, for the exhibition, they deliberately spent more than two months to imitate the "Stone Bamboo Picture" version of Zheng Banqiao, the representative of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou", in accordance with the ratio of 1:1. Many participants were very happy to bring home their printed works for collection, saying that they had a long experience and harvest, and also felt the charm of Chinese engraving printing.
embroidery
Foreign tourists pick up needles and threads on the spot to "embroider"
Influenced by the culture of Yangzhou dynasties and the influence of the Yangzhou Eight Strange Painting School, following the cultural connotation and brush and ink taste of Chinese painting, "antique landscape embroidery" and "ink and wash freehand embroidery" have gradually formed the two major characteristics of Yangzhou embroidery. In this exhibition, Jiang Mingqiu, a celebrity of arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province and a representative inheritor of Yangzhou municipal intangible cultural heritage, also unveiled his ink freehand embroidery works at the Louvre.
According to Zhou Jianbo, general manager of the Cultural and Creative Division of Jiangsu Good Oriental Group, Master Jiang Mingqiu brought a total of ten ink freehand embroidery works this time, "two of which are Master Jiang's most representative works, "Mountains and Rivers" and "Lotus Kingfisher". Zhou Jianbo told reporters that these two works perfectly embody the greatest feature of Yangxiu - the artistic conception of ink landscape painting.
According to reports, the original author of the embroidery "Mountains and Rivers" is Chen Shaomei, a famous modern painter in Tianjin, this work won the gold medal of the "China Arts and Crafts Hundred Flowers Award" at the 10th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Expo Winter Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 2014.
Another embroidered "Lotus Kingfisher", the original author is the representative work of the famous literati painter Bada Shanren in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, "Master Jiang's "Lotus Kingfisher" also won the gold medal of the "Golden Phoenix" innovative product design competition in 2014. Zhou Jianbo told reporters.
Once these Yang embroidery works were displayed, they won the praise of the audience, "The master also demonstrated the exquisite skills of Yangzhou embroidery on the spot, attracting a large number of local tourists to stop and watch." Zhou Jianbo said with a smile that many people picked up needles on the spot to experience the most traditional embroidery skills in China because of curiosity.
Local collectors also spoke highly of Jiang Mingqiu's works, "A Chinese collector in Europe said on the spot that he was willing to pay a high price for Jiang Mingqiu's Yang embroidery works. "
Decoupage
Foreign friends snapped up the master's works on the spot
As an integral part of "Chinese paper-cutting", Yangzhou paper-cutting is listed as a representative item of human intangible cultural heritage.
In order to present the 2500th anniversary of Yangzhou, Zhang Muli, the sixth generation of Yangzhou Zhangpai paper-cutting and the provincial master of arts and crafts, innovated on the basis of tradition and produced Yangzhou's first set of color ladies paper-cut "Palace Fan Beauty Picture".
Zhang Muli told reporters that the traditional black and white paper-cutting is relatively monotonous, "Since 2014, I have started the research of color paper-cutting, whether it is the design of the first draft or the final production has taken a lot of my time." "
Different from the monotonous colors of traditional paper-cutting, on the black palace fan surface she designed, each lady paper-cut is covered with several colors, these beauties or teasing birds, or hairpins, or reading, or writing, movement and stillness are suitable.
"Before coming to France, I deliberately created two more on the basis of the original four cutouts." Zhang Muli told reporters.
Zhou Jianbo said that this set of six works is an innovative work that fully embodies the characteristics of Chinese paper-cutting, so that many foreign counterparts are amazed, "many foreign friends rush to buy her works on the spot, according to the size and complexity of the finished product, the price of Master Zhang's paper-cutting ranges from tens of euros to hundreds of euros." "