Today's Yongzhou News (correspondent Zhang Xiong)."It's the first time I've seen such a long cut-out work, and it's so finely cut, it's really amazing!On December 28th, on the floor outside the paper-cutting studio in front of Song Bing, Shiba Village, Duanqiaopu Town, Dong'an County, with the color of the paper-cut scroll "Wanlong Chengxiang" slowly unfolded, more than 10,000 auspicious dragons of all kinds came into view, and visitors stopped and gave a thumbs up from time to time.
Originally, this painting consisted of 8 volumes with a length of 219 meters and a width of 0The 75-meter color-matched paper-cut long scroll "Wanlong Chengxiang" was completed by Song Bingqian, the intangible inheritor of Dong'an paper-cutting, and his assistant Tang Huxiong, using a variety of cutting techniques such as folding, shaking scissors, set scissors, and continuous scissors, which lasted more than 560 days. This is another paper-cut scroll created by Song Bingqian since he created the color-matched paper-cut scroll "Hundred Rabbits" in 2022.
In the process of creation, Song Bingqian went to Beijing to "visit" the Nine Dragon Wall of the Forbidden City, read a large number of books and albums about dragons, saved more than 30,000 dragons from the Internet, and received the support and encouragement of Tian Maojun, chairman of the Hunan Folk Literature and Art Association, and Xiao Huan, president of the Hunan Paper-cutting Research Association. From the beginning to the completion, regardless of the cold, summer, autumn and winter, Song Bingqian insisted on creating every day, and sometimes inspiration came, and even cut until 2 o'clock in the morning. Hard work pays off. Approaching the New Year, a long paper-cut scroll spanning 5,000 years of time and space, a collection of books, paintings, and printed in a volume, and more than 10,000 dragons leaping on the paper was finally completed.
This long scroll is cut with more than 60 kinds of colored paper, and is divided into four parts: the dragon shocks the four seas, the dragon soars, the dragon sings and falls, and the dragon is auspicious. "Song Bingqian introduced that the dragon soared by a long 9The 5-meter dragon and 22 modern and contemporary figures who have influenced China's development, as well as the Nanhu Red Boat, the Space Rocket, the Great Wall, etc., are composed of auspicious clouds expressed in the gossamer lines that entangle the dragon, the figures, and the Nanhu Red Boat together, making them merge into a whole, expanding the depth of the paper-cut narrative.
One flower in the long roll has a diameter of 0Of the 19-meter flowers, 24 are 0The 03-meter dragon is arranged in a symmetrical pattern, the dragon's form is clearly visible, their front paws against each other, some look back at the distance, some are triumphant, their shape is lovely.
Standing in front of the color-matched paper-cut work "Ten Thousand Dragons Chengxiang", the audience seems to hear the echo of the footsteps of the distant ancestors of China on the ancient historical road from the long scroll, and can see the growth, roaring, soaring and rising figure of the Chinese Shenlong. "Wanlong Chengxiang" sings the main theme of dragon culture, highlights the magnificent atmosphere of Chinese culture, stimulates the spiritual resonance of the Chinese people, and brings people great visual impact.
It is reported that Song Bingqian is a well-known paper-cut artist in Hunan Province, more than 50 years of dedication to the creation and inheritance of paper-cutting, more than 20 works by the National Art Museum of China, Hunan Provincial Museum and Tianjin Folk Museum collection, has been Hunan Provincial Mass Culture Society and Hunan Provincial Mass Culture Society Paper-cutting Professional Committee jointly awarded the "Achievement Award". In the past 6 years, Song Bingqian has lived in the countryside, and the folk artist Tang Wuxiong has devoted himself to studying the art of paper-cutting, focusing on inheriting the intangible cultural heritage, and has successively created "Dewu Dong'an", "Hundred Tigers", "Hundred Rabbits" and other color-matched paper-cut scrolls, which have produced good repercussions in the society.
The dragon is the totemic symbol of the Chinese nation and the spiritual emblem of Chinese civilization. In order to welcome the upcoming Lunar Year of the Dragon, I used the form of paper-cutting to create a color-matched paper-cut scroll "Ten Thousand Dragons Chengxiang", showing the Chinese dragon that embodies 5,000 years of cultural accumulation to the world, and wishing our motherland prosperity!I wish the Chinese nation, the giant dragon, to soar and rise in the world!Song Bingqian said.