"The dragon walked on the air, and the sky was half a word. "The dragon is one of the symbols of the Chinese nation, representing unlimited creativity and vitality. The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and various intangible cultural heritage skills with Shandong cultural characteristics have been innovated, and the "dragon" has reappeared.
Weifang Yangjiabu woodblock New Year painting.
Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings are a national intangible cultural heritage project, with a history of more than 600 years. Approaching the Spring Festival, Yangjiabu Village has to produce nearly 10,000 New Year paintings every day. Yang Naidong, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Hanting District, Weifang City, combined the dragon element with the intangible cultural heritage skills to design and produce the New Year painting "Auspicious Dragon", which integrates auspicious elements such as flying dragons, auspicious clouds, and lotus flowers, implying a happy life, and also full of people's blessings and expectations for the New Year.
Changyi paper-cutting. Tian Guoying, the intangible inheritor of Changyi paper-cutting, recently cut out three cleverly conceived paper-cut works with the theme of "Dragon Prosperity" to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Dragon. Among them, the creation of "Nine Dragons" is inspired by the Nine Dragons Wall of the Forbidden City, and the shapes and expressions of these nine flying dragons are different, and they are full of three-dimensional feeling. In this work, in order to make the work easy to circulate and use, Tian Guoying cut out the flying dragon ** and the line, the surface and the surface, the combination is close and coherent, which is refreshing.
Yellow River estuary straw weaving skills.
Zhang Kuishan, the representative inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Dongying City, who grew up by the Yellow River, used straw and superb fire burning skills to create the "Jiuqu Anlan Yellow River Dragon". "Jiuqu Anlan Yellow River Dragon" took 6 months to make, 80 cm high, 219 cm long, 40 cm wide, and weighed 22 catties. Such a beautiful work is made of sorghum seedlings, sorghum stalks, corn husks, wicker, etc., which are the most common in rural areas.
Gaomi Niejiazhuang clay sculpture.
The Spring Festival is approaching, in Niejiazhuang Village, Jiangzhuang Town, Gaomi City, Weifang, Shandong, local villagers make dragon clay sculptures in various markets. Niejiazhuang Village has a long tradition of making clay sculptures, and in 2008, Niejiazhuang clay sculptures were listed as national intangible cultural heritage.
Mu Ping egg carving. The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and Xu Xibao, the intangible inheritor of egg carving in Muping District, Yantai City, has created a set of egg carving works with the theme of dragons. The prototype of the dragon is carved with reference to the nine dragons on the wall of the Nine Dragons of the Forbidden City, and the carving on the eggshell requires a variety of techniques such as hard carving and relief carving, and every dragon scale and every detail must be carved in place, and it takes at least half a month to carve a dragon.
Tie-dye of non-dyed plants.
Recently, Mr. Sun Yan, the inheritor of plant tie-dyeing (Sister Qiao) in Wudi Ancient City, has created a series of intangible cultural heritage works of Chinese dragon elements by printing and dyeing by using plant color-enhancing processes such as banlan root, tea, persimmon lacquer, etc., which have been sought after by the majority of citizens and tourists.
Zibo soft pottery. If you want to say that the top of the cultural and creative industry in the Year of the Dragon, it must be "Dragon Turtle"! The chubby and cute image of milk attracted countless fans and was scheduled to explode as soon as it appeared. The dragon is an original work of Zibo Small Shrimp Soft Pottery Art Studio, the creation process lasted for more than two months, and its color was made of Chinese red, implying the atmosphere of "red and red for the New Year". There are more than 4,000 delicate dragon scales behind it, each of which is handmade.
Yi masked plastic. As the New Year approaches, Han Hongyuan, a teacher of Linyi Technician College in Shandong Province and the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Yimeng Mask Sculpture, led the students to create and complete a set of two works, the "Dragon Baby Welcoming Spring" and the 2-meter-high "Dragon Teng Shengshi" face sculpture, showing the traditional customs and cultural characteristics of the New Year in Yimeng area.
Jiaodong flowers.
The face of the pasta industry is here! The inheritor of Jiaodong flower dumplings makes the old tradition rejuvenate the new year, and the dragon element flower dumplings made by Gai Yajuan, the inheritor of flowers and dumplings in Muping District, Yantai City, are lifelike, and there are gold ingots hidden inside, which means "prosperous fortune".
No velvet embroidery. Velvet embroidery, commonly known as "embroidery", is an embroidery method that cuts out colorful cotton threads with embroidery needles. Recently, in the Dizhou Embroidery Workshop in the ancient city of Wudi, Xian Shengnan, the sixth-generation inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project Wudi velvet embroidery, embroidered the work "Chinese Dragon" with the elements of the zodiac of the Year of the Dragon, which is cute and festive, and is welcomed by the public.
Each exquisite intangible cultural heritage handicraft is the inheritance of the Chinese dragon elements, trend design and traditional crafts of the ingenuity of the combination, all reflect their traditional protection and hope for the future, a winding and churning dragon, bringing peace and auspiciousness to thousands of households.
Materials**: Xinhua News Agency, **Poster News, Lightning News, Qilu One Point, Weifang Rong Media, etc.).