Take a vacation to Baixiao Ancient Town and walk along the shores of Xijiang Lake, where four unique domed buildings come into view. Mottled walls, old staircases, oncoming vicissitudes and mystery deeply provoke your curiosity and arouse the desire to find out. This is the new highlight that detonated the revitalization of Sanshui Village in Foshan - Xijiang Creative Warehouse, the former site of the granary that has been idle for many years, under the vigorous promotion of the government of Baixiao Town, Foshan City, has now become a famous lacquer painting art dissemination place, attracting a large number of tourists, Internet celebrities and art lovers to come to "punch in".
Renovation of the white granary
The White Granary was built in the 1950s. In the early days of the founding of New China, the whole country carried out the collection of public grain and the purchase of commodity grain on behalf of the country, and the grain reserves increased sharply, and the original granaries were not enough to use. At the end of the 1950s, Guangdong and other places began to build cylindrical granaries, including Sanshui, but the number was small at that time. By the mid-1960s, in the face of the severe international situation, the mainland began to "prepare for famine" and increased its efforts to save grain and increase grain reserves. Under the guidance of this policy, the number of granaries in Sanshui increased significantly in the late 1960s.
White Granary
The initial brick round warehouse was 14 meters in diameter and only 3 or 4 meters high, which could store 300 to 400 tons of grain. By the 1980s, with the increase in grain production, brick warehouses sprung up and increased to 8 meters, which could store 800 tons of grain. By the end of the 1980s, there were 60 to 70 Sanshui brick round warehouses, distributed in various townships, and not a single one had been demolished so far.
The old granary of Baixiao has witnessed the glory of Baixiao's agricultural civilization, and with the construction of a modern new grain depot, the old granary has become an idle undeveloped space. To this end, Baixiao Town has revitalized the granary space, using lacquer painting art as the medium, transforming it into an art granary, and building it into a "literary and artistic home" in Foshan's cultural and creative ancient town.
Lacquer painting master Qiao Shiguang settled in
As a leader in lacquer painting art, Mr. Qiao Shiguang was invited to become the first lacquer painting master introduced by the construction of Baixiao Lacquer Art Village, and established Qiao Shiguang Lacquer Painting Studio in Sanxiang Village. Recently, the "50 Years of Lacquer Ink Spring and Autumn Qiao Shiguang Lacquer Painting Art 50 Years National TourIng Exhibition Foshan Station" sponsored by Tsinghua University was launched in Xijiang Creative Warehouse, Baixiao Town, Sanshui District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, and was exhibited until June 30.
Exhibition site
The exhibition focuses on more than 80 works of Mr. Qiao Shiguang in the past 50 years, such as lacquer paintings, drawings, color ink, calligraphy, etc., which are divided into four parts based on the clues of time, corresponding to the four artistic stages of Mr. Qiao Shiguang: Seeking new exploration (1961-1987), expanding thick accumulation (1988-2002), diversified integration (2002-2010) and chaos return (2011 to present), which completely covers Mr. Qiao Shiguang's artistic journey and comprehensively demonstrates his artistic achievements.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei