Shanxi: The folklore exhibition adds a cultural flavor to the "Year"

【Advocating a new way for the New Year】

From the Jade Tiger Head of the Neolithic Age more than 3,700 years ago to the tiger-shaped porcelain pillow of the Song and Jin Dynasties more than 1,000 years ago, and then to the modern cloth tiger and tiger head hat, on January 25, when the Year of the Tiger is approaching in the lunar calendar, the Shanxi Archaeological Museum "Tiger Tiger Shengwei - Shanxi Archaeological Museum Hidden Tiger Cultural Relics", "Tiger Model Tiger Pattern - Houma Cast Copper Site Tiger Pattern Pottery Fan", "Jinhu Duofu - Shanxi Tiger Culture Folk Embroidery and Innovative Design Exhibition" Three Tiger Year Celebration Exhibitions were opened to the public on the same day.

In the "Painting Tigers And Painting Auspicious" area of the exhibition hall, Gao Lu Zhiyu and several friends used their brushes to shape the image of the "tiger" in their hearts. She said that in these 3 exhibitions, the most attractive to her was the giant "cloth tiger wall". According to the staff, the 300 cloth tigers with different shapes that make up this wall are all made by local craftsmen in Changzhi, Shanxi, and they have a full "Shanxi style" from decoration to color matching.

In order to set off the festive atmosphere of the New Year, the exhibition "Jinhu Duofu" is planned by Gao Peng, associate professor of the School of Art and Design of Shanxi University of Communication and Communication and the director of the Teaching and Research Office of Visual Communication Design, who based on the "Jinhu" cultural creation representing Shanxi, combines innovation and inheritance into one, perfectly combines "Jin" and "Tiger", and shows the super symbol of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in Shanxi. In this area, the audience can feel the trend of historical changes and cultural changes.

While feeling the cultural charm of "Jinhu", children can also feel the ingenuity and wisdom of the ancients through the tiger cultural relics unearthed in Shanxi in different historical periods, and realize the desire to make historical relics come alive and enrich the cultural life of the masses. The Houma copper casting site was discovered in the 1950s and unearthed more than 30,000 pieces of pottery fan, of which tiger pattern pottery fan is one of the more common types. This exhibition not only shows the public a selection of 19 sets of tiger pattern pottery molds and pottery models, but also shows the process of what is a pottery mold, a pottery fan and how tao fan method casts bronzes, so that visitors can feel as if they can travel through time and space and feel the admiration of the tiger by the ancestors of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

"New Year painting, New Year painting, New Year painting." In the 1950s and 1980s, The Shanxi painter Meng Yangyu created a large number of New Year paintings that reflected Chinese folk culture, urban and rural development and the changes of the times, and also made festive works enter thousands of households. On January 20, the Shanxi Archaeological Museum launched the "On the Field of Hope - Meng Yangyu New Year Painting Exhibition", allowing adults to find the taste of childhood here.

Looking at the home decoration style of the 1970s and 1980s in the exhibition hall and the old objects in the display cabinets, Lu Jianhui, who accompanied his daughter Gao Lu Zhiyu to visit, was brought back to his childhood. She said: "Under the epidemic, these folk exhibitions have made me and my children feel a more meaningful Chinese New Year festival. Curator Cui Bingjie introduced that he wanted to set off a strong New Year flavor through such an exhibition, and for this reason, the window flowers in the exhibition hall were specially created by many folk arts and crafts masters.

"These small New Year paintings can be liked and recognized by the people is a pleasure, and after more than 50 years, once again into everyone's sight, can also be liked by young people, this is really a kind of happiness." 」 Meng Yangyu said happily.

(Reporter Li Jianbin)

(Guangming Daily)