The Spring Festival is both Chinese and global. On December 22, 2023, the United Nations adopted a resolution to officially designate the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) as a United Nations holiday, which fully demonstrates the spread and influence of Chinese civilization and has special significance on the occasion of the arrival of the Year of the Dragon.
The Year of the Dragon Author: Pan Lusheng.
When it comes to the Spring Festival, people will naturally think of the zodiac, which is an important part of traditional Chinese culture with eternal charm and lasting vitality, and is a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. China's zodiac culture has a long history, throughout the ages, folk New Year paintings, paper-cutting, clay sculptures, printing and dyeing and other folk arts have formed a rich creation of zodiac culture, with the help of artistic language and zodiac modeling, to express profound cultural connotation and thoughts and emotions.
Wan Gongxue is the zodiac dragon made for the New Year's Eve special exhibition of "Into the Field".
In 2023, the China Folk Literature and Art Association and Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts will participate in the "China University Zodiac Design Competition". The competition aims to absorb the wisdom of folk art, empower design expression, give full play to the school's resource advantages in the field of folk art research and art design, dig deep into the historical connotation of zodiac culture, integrate zodiac design into professional teaching, so that teachers and students can ignite their enthusiasm for learning Chinese excellent traditional culture in understanding, inheritance and creation, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture, which fully demonstrates the responsibility of design and art colleges in "cultural innovation". Many of the works selected for the Zodiac Design Exhibition not only carry the long and profound connotation of the Zodiac culture, but also skillfully integrate the spirit of the times and innovative vitality, which is an effective integration and vivid interpretation of the Zodiac culture, historical tradition, and artistic creation, which will help to enhance the exchanges and mutual learning of different civilizations in the world and strengthen the global dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. This activity was founded by Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts for ten years.