Source: Economic Daily
On September 20, at the Liangping District Experimental Primary School in Chongqing, Mo Shaoping (first from left), the representative inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year paintings, was introducing the skills of New Year paintings to the students.
In 2005, special stamps with postage made of Liang Ping's woodblock New Year paintings were issued nationwide.
On September 20, volunteers prepared to put up a public welfare poster made with Liang Ping's New Year paintings at the Liangping District Library.
On September 20th, Xu Jiahui, the national representative inheritor of Liangping's woodblock New Year paintings, demonstrated the traditional production skills of New Year paintings. Xu Jiahui is the sixth-generation inheritor of Liang Ping's woodblock New Year paintings, and has long been committed to the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage New Year paintings.
On September 20, in Wuyi Community, Renxian Street, Liangping District, Quan Changming (first from left), the representative inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year paintings, was teaching the production of woodblock New Year paintings.
On September 19, in a woodblock New Year painting studio in Renxian Street, Liangping District, the staff was carving.
On September 22, the audience enjoyed Liang Ping's woodblock New Year paintings at the 13th Chongqing International Cultural Industry Expo.
On September 19, at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience Center of Shuanggui Pastoral Scenic Area in Liangping District, tourists were selecting woodblock New Year cultural and creative products.
Liangping woodblock New Year painting is a traditional folk art treasure in Liangping area, Chongqing, using the traditional woodblock watermark color matching technology, mainly printing, supplemented by painting, printing and painting combined. The picture design is rough and concise, the composition is full, the characters are simple and honest, and the colors are rich, whether it is depicting customs and human feelings, or folk tales, opera myths, they are full of a strong breath of life. In 2006, Liang Ping's woodblock New Year paintings were included in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.
Influenced by regional culture, Liang Ping's woodblock New Year painting expression techniques and artistic styles have formed a unique system. The production process needs to go through more than 30 processes such as engraving, steaming paper, brushing mud, overprinting, opening the face, etc., the color pigment should be boiled with plant minerals, the printing paper needs the local white bamboo handmade paper, and the engraving overprint needs a color and a plate, and the color is layered.
In order to strengthen the protection and inheritance of national intangible cultural heritage, Liang Ping has successively established intangible cultural heritage inheritance bases in townships, schools and associations under his jurisdiction, and set up intangible cultural heritage classrooms in art academies. The New Year's paintings created by local primary school students in Liangping have been selected into the new art textbooks for primary and secondary schools compiled by the Ministry of Education, and have become a model for primary and secondary school students across the country to learn New Year's paintings. (Photo\text Economic Daily reporter Zhao Jing)