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Gongbi peony painting "Splendid Spring Light"
《National Color Heavenly Fragrance》
"Prosperous Harmony"
Gongbi peony painting is a kind of painting of Juye, which is based on the inheritance of traditional gongbi techniques, combined with modern craftsmanship, and finely crafted. Gongbi peony painting is rigorous and exquisite, and the colors are brilliant and colorful, which fully demonstrates the graceful and luxurious characteristics of peony. At present, Juye Gongbi peony paintings have been selected into the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects list, and Juye Fine Gongbi peony paintings are well-known at home and abroad, and have won awards in national and provincial large-scale calligraphy and painting exhibitions for many times.
The history of calligraphy and painting has a long history
Juye County is a well-known hometown of Chinese Gongbi painting and Chinese peasant painting at home and abroad, and Gongbi peony painting is its own kind of painting. More than 80% of the gongbi peony paintings sold in major galleries and painting shops across the country come from Juye. In recent years, the exquisite patterns on the pottery, jade and Han portrait stones unearthed in the territory involve figures, flowers, birds and landscapes, and the techniques are skillful and the images are realistic, reproducing the glory of Juye calligraphy and painting.
Juye calligraphy and painting has a long history, dating back to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and there are many excellent works handed down from generation to generation. After the founding of New China, especially since the 1960s, Juye calligraphy and painting have flourished, from the handicraft eggs exported by the county arts and crafts factory to the "blossoming paper", a group of state-level painters have stood out in the transformation, and a large number of leading figures such as Huang Entao, Dong Sen, Wang Shichao, Liu Changjie, Yao Guiyuan, and Gao Guanling have emerged, bringing out a large number of rookies through passing on the torch. Their works have won gold and silver awards in several large-scale national art exhibitions.
Up to now, Juye County has 18 members of the Chinese Beauty Association, 64 members of the Shandong Provincial Beauty Association, 13 members of the Chinese Book Association, and 32 members of the Shandong Provincial Book Association; it also has 4 painting towns, 50 professional villages, 44 grass-roots painting academies, more than 160 calligraphy and painting training institutions, more than 15,000 people engaged in the creation, sales, mounting and other calligraphy and painting industries, and more than 600 sales outlets have been established nationwide, and the works are exported to more than 40 countries and regions such as the United States, France, Australia, Singapore, and South Korea.
Giant brush peony paintings amaze the world
What makes Juye County Gongbi peony painting the icing on the cake is the 2018 SCO Qingdao Summit, which is also a watershed for Juye calligraphy and painting to a higher level. "I didn't expect that a gongbi peony painting at that time caused such a big sensation. Xinhua News Agency issued a press release, and hundreds of media reports at home and abroad reported. Talking about the huge peony painting created for the SCO Qingdao Summit, Cheng Junwei, president of the Juye County Calligraphy and Painting Institute, still can't hide his excitement.
At the end of 2017, Cheng Junwei, who had just become the director of the county academy of calligraphy and painting, received a task that he would never forget: to create a huge peony painting for the reception hall of the SCO Qingdao Summit banquet. "At that time, we organized 10 painters with profound skills and exquisite skills to fight day and night. From January 25 to April 10, it lasted 77 days, working overtime every night until the early morning, changing the manuscript nine times, and finally completing the creation before the summit. Cheng Junwei said.
On the evening of June 9, 2018, in the welcome hall of the SCO Qingdao Summit banquet, the graceful, elegant, dignified, rigorous and vividly colored peony paintings were unveiled and amazed the summit. This 15.5-meter-wide and 4.2-meter-high Gongbi Peony Painting from juye County Calligraphy and Painting Institute was the largest Gongbi painting in China and even in the world at that time. Then, on November 8, 2018, the giant peony painting "Splendid Spring Light" from Juye once again shined at the Expo and stunned the world. Two consecutive appearances in national foreign affairs activities, while winning glory for the country, but also allowing Juye County Gongbi peony painting to walk barrier-free in the international and domestic markets. At present, Juye Gongbi peony painting has a market share of 80% in the national calligraphy and painting market.
Train peasant painters and lead rural civilization
In recent years, Juye County has paid attention to the network construction of training institutions, and initially formed a networked training pattern with the county calligraphy and painting institute as the core, the township and district calligraphy and painting institute as the backbone, and the village-level calligraphy and painting studio as the outlet, and the county has invested 65 million yuan to build the Juye County Farmers' Calligraphy and Painting Institute. It is a large-scale peasant painting learning and training base that integrates peasant painter training, exhibition exchange, cultural learning, leisure and entertainment. Since last year, the county academy of calligraphy and painting has held 20 training courses on the basic creation of gongbi painting and freehand painting creation, and trained more than 2,000 peasant painters. Township-level peasant calligraphy and painting institutes have reached full coverage, and more than 1,500 peasant painters have been trained every year. There are 65 standardized calligraphy and painting studios at the village level, 15 teachers perennial teaching in the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of Longqu Town, and more than 500 trainees are trained annually.
Nowadays, the calligraphy and painting industry has not only become the driving force for the development of a new type of economy in Juye, but also an important carrier for farmers to improve their cultural quality and lead the rural civilization and fashion. At present, Juye County has set up a volunteer association for the practice of calligraphy and painting in the new era, and more than 150 painters of the association often volunteer to go to grass-roots calligraphy and painting institutes and rooms to guide and train peasant trainees. Relying on the advantages of "the hometown of Chinese peasant painting", Juye County takes volunteer service as a working platform to train calligraphy and painting talents, improve cultural quality, lead rural civilization, and promote cultural revitalization.
Heze Newspaper all-media reporter Wen Jie