The Beauty of Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Paintings
New Year painting was considered an auspicious and lucky image in ancient China,with not much color and primitive simplicity to depict daily life and believes of ancient Chinese people.It goes back to human worshiping nature and manitou in ancient times.
Tianjin Yangliuqing folk woodblock New Year painting is recommended as the best in the country. There has been a saying that every family at Yangliuqing knows how to play with ink and brush.As legend has it, several generations of the Dai family living by the canal side painted pictures for their livelihood, a wonderful encounter changed the fate of the family and the the thousand-year-old town of Yangliuqing. The video will show you the beauty of Yangliuqing New Year paintings and tell you a vivid legendary story.
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Yangliuqing is a market town in Tianjin's Xiqing District. Despite its small size, it’s one of the most famous towns in China – thanks to its production of the Yangliuqing New Year’s pictures. Hailed as a treasure of traditional Chinese folk art, Yangliuqing’s wood engraved New Year's paintings are celebrated for their distinctive features and deep symbolism. CGTN’s Lindy Mtongana and Yang Xinmeng take a tour of the Yangliuqing Museum to find out more about the town’s much-loved art.
Yangliuqing Tianjin Restaurant
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Shi Family a well known rich family in old times Tianjin, China built their family mansion in 1875. It is the largest civilian residence well preserved in China. It is one of the major attraction in Tianjin which is now developed into a museum. We were also entertained by a Chinese Opera. Finally, we also visited the nearby Yangliuqing Folk Art factory and witnessed how they produced their classic artwork, famous for their New Year edition.
宗家庄年画 The Chinese New Year Paintings of Zongjiazhuang
Zongjiazhuang 宗家庄 is located in the western suburb of Pingdu City in Shandong province. This short video presents the origin and inheritance of the Woodblock New Year Paintings in Zongjiazhuang, and it revokes the thinking on the fate of traditional crafts.
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Woodcut New Year paintings
Chinese New Year Paintings, or Nianhua in Chinese, are traditional paintings to be put on walls, windows or even wardrobes and stoves during the Spring Festival.
They are characterized by bright colors and scenes of prosperity which endows good wishes.
A town named Yangliuqing in Tianjin is the leading producer of Chinese New Year Painting. More than 70 painting workshops are located there.
Huo Qingyou, a sixth-generation successor of woodcut New Year Pictures, owns a renowned workshop. Painters and workers are especially busy during the Spring Festival.
SOUNDBITE (CHINESE): HUO SHULIN, Huo Qingyou's son
We've sold about two to three thousand New Year Paintings this year. The sales revenue is nearly 10,000 U.S. dollars.
Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures originated in the Ming dynasty in the 17th century, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty.
They are now part of China's intangible cultural heritage. The woodcut New Year Picture is famous for its unique craftsmanship.
SOUNDBITE (CHINESE): HUO QINGYOU, Artist
Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures belong to folk culture. Many people like them as the paintings show our real life and the beautiful life which we desire. Yangliuqing pictures are different from the pictures elsewhere: we adopt five techniques - delineation, woodcarving, overprinting, color painting and mounting. Several subjects are typical in the paintings - babies, folk customs, folk tales, ancient ladies, and deity. They represent people's good wishes for the new year and the esteem of their ancestors.
Artists first draw a picture outline on the board, carve along the lines, then they cover the board on papers to print the outline on the paper. Finally they color the pictures and mount them.
Every step requires one craftsman to look after. Thus, a completed New Year Painting is a combination of five people's endeavor.
As each procedure is very sophisticated, many people study one particular skill since childhood and do nothing but this in their whole life.
Now about 600 people in the town are committed themselves to the industry. Each piece of work has very high artistic folklore value.
During the Spring Festival, such pictures are popular presents.
SOUNDBITE (CHINESE): GAO HONGLIANG, Official, Xiqing District, Tianjin
This year, the 70 workshops realized sales revenue of over 10 million U.S. dollars. We hold Yangliuqing Woodblock Painting Festival every year to build a platform for artists to communicate and spread the culture. We also encourage the youth to learn the art at primary, middle schools and colleges.
The Xiqing District government also built a traditional folk culture street to boost the industry' development.
Artists agree that preserving the traditional craftsmanship and promoting it to the world is the priority among priorities.
SOUNDBITE (CHINESE): HUO QINGYOU, Artist
We sell the woodcut New Year Pictures abroad and they are very popular there. Some of the paintings are collected in museums overseas. I have a small museum at home to show pictures, to let more people know Yangjiuqing Paintings and to better protect the cultural heritage.
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Tianjin ([tʰjɛ́n.tɕín] (listen)), formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper. It is governed as one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of central government of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.
In terms of urban population, Tianjin is the fourth largest in China, after Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. In terms of administrative area population, Tianjin ranks fifth in Mainland China. The walled city of Tianjin was built in 1404. As a treaty port since 1860, Tianjin has been a major seaport and gateway to Beijing. During the Boxer Rebellion the city was the seat of the Tianjin Provisional Government. Under the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China, Tianjin became one of the largest cities in the region. At that time, numerous European-style buildings and mansions were constructed in concessions, many of which are well-preserved today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tianjin suffered a depression due to the policy of the central government and Tangshan earthquake, but recovered from 1990s. Nowadays Tianjin is a dual-core city, with its main urban area (including the old city) located along the Hai River, which connects to the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers via the Grand Canal; and Binhai, a New Area urban core located east of the old city, on the coast of the Bohai Gulf. As of the end of 2010, around 285 Fortune 500 companies have set up base in Binhai.