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I didn't find it online, but I found this, and I hope I can adopt it: Stove paintings are no stranger to rural people.

Today, when the protection of intangible cultural heritage is advocated, the farmhouse stoves that were once filled with the smell of fireworks also reveal a strong cultural atmosphere. The "flower stoves" are pieces of folk art with strong rural style.

However, in modern society where folk handicrafts are gradually disappearing, stove paintings have gradually faded out of people's sight, and inheritance and protection are urgent.

What is the history and current situation of Tongxiang stove painting art?

What will happen to its inheritance and protection?

A few days ago, the reporter conducted a special interview for this purpose - In rural Tongxiang, as soon as you walk into the kitchen of a farmhouse, you will see a pair of unique stoves. From the stove mountain, the chimney to the stove body, there are various paintings.

Different patterns and patterns, most of them are rough and exaggerated, with bright colors and text.

This kind of mural attached to the stove is called "zaotop painting".

As an important part of folk art, stove paintings not only constitute the unique folk culture of Jiangnan, but are also a typical representative of Jiangnan rice culture.

The Origin of Stove Painting There is no definite research on when the stove painting originated.

Some of Tongxiang's old kitchen painting artists say it originated during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, while others think it was even earlier, originating from the Sui Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago.

It is impossible to find out which year it was.

But one thing is certain, it is mainly derived from the folk tradition of worshiping the Kitchen God, combined with the structural characteristics of the firewood stove in the south of the Yangtze River, and was painted by the masters who are good at painting with simple and smooth brushwork.

Stove paintings are very common in rural areas of Tongxiang.

In the past, whenever a new stove was built, there would be paintings on the stove.

The traditional firewood stove used in rural areas consists of a stove top and a stove wall. Two or three iron pots are placed on the stove top. The stove with two pots is called a "two-eye stove", and the stove with three pots is called a "three-eye stove".

Generally speaking, the pot on the inside is larger and is called the "inner wok"; the pot on the outside is smaller and is called the "outer wok"; if it is a "three-eye stove", there is also a "middle wok" and "middle wok"

Generally between "inner wok" and "outer wok".

A small pot is placed between the two large pots, which is called a "soup wok".

"Three-eye stoves" are common in rural areas of our city.

According to some rural elders, farmers in Tongxiang area have always attached great importance to building stoves. The size, orientation, orientation and other factors of the stove cannot be decided casually. Generally, they have to choose a good and auspicious day to "break ground", which is second only to building a house.

Some farmers also use small pots to store rice and tea when cooking the stove, and then put them into the stove, or bury copper coins to pray to the Kitchen God Bodhisattva for the health of their family.

Out of the needs of life and the desire for a better life, the stove masters began to paint various auspicious patterns on the walls of the stove, and stove paintings were born.

There is another saying.

Since the Stove Lord lives on the stove, these patterns accompanying the Stove Lord naturally symbolize auspiciousness, show wealth, express yearning, and contain prayers.

If someone's stove is simply painted with a layer of lime mortar, people will disdainfully call it a "tofu stove."

Stove paintings have rich and colorful meanings. On the stove heads, patterns and words symbolizing auspiciousness and wealth, such as rich peonies, hundreds of birds facing the phoenix, carps jumping over the dragon's gate, rising sun and fighting for gold, and candles holding hearts, are commonly seen.

According to some veteran stove painting artists, similar to the stove paintings in other areas of Jiangnan, Tongxiang stove paintings can be roughly divided into three categories: line type, pattern type and text type.

Among the three types, line type is the simplest, while pattern type kitchen paintings are much more complex. They can generally be divided into three types: story and legend type, landscape type and allegorical object type.

The legendary types of stories include "Sworship in the Taoyuan", "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage", "Tai Gong Fishing", "Xiao He Chasing Han Xin Under the Moon", etc.

Landscape types such as "Hangzhou West Lake", "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon", "Qianjiang Bridge", "Xin'anjiang Power Station", etc.

The allegorical object types include "phoenix flying into the sky", "unicorn sending its son", "birds paying homage to the phoenix", "songs and cranes prolonging life", "magpies climbing plum blossoms", "carps jumping over the dragon's gate", etc.

The text-type stove paintings include single characters, the most common of which are the two characters "Fu" and "Shou"; there are also four characters, such as "Water in the rice", "More than enough every year", "Rijin Dou Jin", "

"Be careful with fire and candles," etc.; some also appear in the form of couplets, such as "peaceful seasons, all the best", "live as long as the evergreen pines in Nanshan Mountain, and be as blessed as the ever-flowing waters of the East Sea", etc.

There is also a certain point in which position on the stove the various stove paintings are suitable to be painted.

Traditional rural stoves generally consist of stove feet, stove body, stove rail, stove mountain, stove door wall, stove top, etc.

The compositions on the stove legs are generally in full ink color and are in the shape of a long scroll, showing a sense of stability.

The stove body generally has continuous symmetrical patterns, which together with the stability of the stove legs give people a harmonious aesthetic feeling.

The stove railing, stove mountain, stove door wall, stove top and other parts are based on reality and are either long, square or diamond-shaped, giving people an artistic enjoyment that is constantly changing and well-proportioned.

Above the stove hole on the back of the stove, there is usually an inscription such as "Be careful with fire and candles", and the word "fire" is often written upside down.

The images embodied in stove paintings are generally the same as folk songs, embodying the working people's love for life, their wishes for happiness, and their pursuit of beauty.

Just like the most common "treasure bowl", it expresses people's prayers for adequate food and clothing and peace and happiness, expresses people's simple thoughts and feelings of working hard to get rich, and reflects people's general psychology of seeking perfection, beauty, and wealth.