The long history has left Wu Qiang with a galaxy-like ancient culture; It is a famous "hometown of woodblock New Year pictures", and Wuqiang New Year pictures, a wonderful flower of folk art, are known as "hometown of New Year pictures".
Wuqiang New Year Pictures have formed their own unique style and genre through the painstaking efforts of artists of past dynasties, which can be compared with Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Pictures, Shandong Weifang New Year Pictures, Jiangsu Taohuawu New Year Pictures, Sichuan Mianzhu New Year Pictures and Henan Zhu Xian New Year Pictures.
Wuqiang New Year pictures are a bright pearl in the treasure house of China folk art, and are known as the symbol of Hebei art, and are well-known at home and abroad for their profound folk customs and unique national artistic style.
The ancestral version of Wuqiang New Year pictures was produced in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is recorded in Fan's genealogy that Fan Yinglong was from Yongle in Ming Dynasty. As can be seen from the quotation, Wuqiang New Year pictures have begun to take shape in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty.
Wuqiang New Year pictures are made by folk artists, full of folk life interest and folk art color, with simple background, no details and prominent theme, and the materials are closely related to folk customs and life.
The theme of Wuqiang New Year pictures is rich and colorful, which reflects the thoughts, feelings and wishes of working people through various images to meet the different appreciation habits and requirements of people in different regions. Therefore, it has a profound influence and a solid mass base among the people and has been deeply loved by the broad masses for hundreds of years.
Wuqiang New Year pictures are mainly woodcut color watermarks.
Due to the special effects of craftsmanship and carving methods, it has formed a unique artistic style; The composition is symmetrical and full, with strong decoration, rough and concise lines, tall and strong, simple and naive; Strong colors, strong but not stagnant, simple and changeable, often with bright and comfortable colors such as red and green, forming a cheerful and warm atmosphere to decorate festivals.
There is also an ancient, elegant, delicate and refreshing landscape painting, which is also very popular.
The modeling of Wuqiang New Year pictures highlights the key points, portrays the characters with five characters, highlights the head and eyes, uses fewer pens and is vivid.
"The fishhook and nose are single-framed, and it's lazy to draw eyebrows even with light makeup", but the inner feelings are expressed incisively and vividly.
Wuqiang New Year pictures have a variety of carving techniques, some of which are meticulously carved and meticulous, and some of which are thick and thin.
However, he is good at bold, rough and natural engraving, focusing on positive engraving and negative engraving, using the expression method of black and white contrast, giving full play to the characteristics of wood flavor and always maintaining the printmaking style.
The artists of Wuqiang New Year pictures have summed up their rich experience in color printing for many years, and achieved a clear and unified contrast effect with different blocks, shades or approximate arrangements.
It requires less colors and more changes, so that the plane color block increases the layering and three-dimensional sense.
Copy the key parts with the same or multiple colors to make the colors full and varied.
Patterns are bright and dark, beige and purple are the same, and each work has a theme, forming a simple, bright and strong melody, giving people the feeling of jumping.
The history of Wuqiang New Year pictures has gone through many vicissitudes and suffered from wind and frost.
However, the Wuqiang New Year pictures, which are deeply loved by the people, are unsustainable, and even the unprecedented ten-year catastrophe has not been destroyed.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wuqiang New Year pictures have re-entered the road of prosperity and development.
Since the spring of 1979, with the guidance and support of the relevant departments of the province, the relevant departments of various cities and counties have collected and sorted out the data of Wuqiang New Year pictures.
Wuqiang New Year Painting Society was established on September 2nd, 1980, and was approved by the Ministry of Menstrual Culture on 10, 1983.
From 1985 to 1990, Wuqiang New Year Picture Museum, the first professional county museum in China, was built.
1989, Wuqiang was approved as "the hometown of folk woodblock New Year pictures in China".
In recent years, Wuqiang New Year pictures, a traditional art, have gained unprecedented development. On the basis of keeping the traditional block printing and silk screen printing, we adopted new technology for offset printing, and produced more than 100 varieties of offset New Year pictures, Zhonglian, calendars and calendars. The annual production and sales volume reached more than1000000 copies, which were not only sold to 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 60,000 celebrities and scholars from all walks of life have visited Wuqiang.
Experts and scholars from Romania, Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia, Uruguay and other dozens of countries and cultural counsellors of embassies visited Wuqiang New Year pictures.