Is woodblock prints intangible cultural heritage

Woodblock prints are intangible cultural heritage in China.

Woodblock prints are a traditional folk art form with a long history of more than a thousand years in China. By the middle and late Qing Dynasty, folk New Year paintings reached their heyday. In Chinese folklore, New Year's paintings are the symbol of the year, and it is not the New Year if you don't put up New Year's paintings. New Year's paintings are not only decorations for festivals, but also have cultural and artistic values that make them an encyclopedia reflecting the life of Chinese folk society.

On May 20, 2006, Zhuxian Town woodblock prints, Yang Liuqing woodblock prints and other woodblock prints in 11 cities and municipalities were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. on June 7, 2008, Shixian woodblock prints and other four woodblock prints woodblock prints approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. in 2011, Laohukou woodblock prints were selected as one of the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. New Year's Paintings was selected as one of the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

In November 2019, woodblock prints woodblock prints were selected to the list of representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage protection units.

Categorization of Woodblock New Year Paintings

(1) Joyful Paintings, joyful paintings for newlyweds to stick on their homes, such as "The Unicorn Sending Off a Son", "The Dragon and the Phoenix Showing Good Fortune", "grandchildren" and so on.

(2) Blessing of life painting, is to celebrate the opening of the business and longevity of the auspicious occasion of the year paintings such as "Lixi Xianguan", "Hundred Shou Tu" and so on.

(3) industry ancestor statue, is the industry to pay homage to the entrepreneurial ancestor or apprenticeship and other ceremonies posted on the paper 祃(神像)类画, such as "King of Medicine Sun Simiao", "Wu Daozi" and so on.

(4) fan painting, is a complementary woodblock print products during the summer off-season, Shandong Weifang New Year's paintings workshop, "carving plate sitting case, piggyback paste fan" folk song.

(5) west lake view and zhang painting, west lake view is commonly known as "pulling the foreign film" in the foreign film, or western mirror, mainly landscape, and current events. Joe painting is posted in the tea circle, restaurants and large-scale horizontal phi paintings, more than the story of the military theater as the main theme.

(6) lamp screen painting, also known as lamp square painting, pasted on the four sides of the lantern, the content of more than from historical stories and opera, often combined with fanzas, known as "lamps fan".

(7) Toys and games, used to make boards, cards, lanterns or kites on the decoration.

(8) other miscellaneous paintings, various festivals with decorative paintings such as the winter solstice with the "Nine-Nine Chillers", the Dragon Boat Festival with the "Zhong Kui fight ghosts", the Mid-Autumn Festival with the "moonlight 祃" and so on. "

The above mentioned pictures are not only for the Chinese people, but also for the Chinese people in the world.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Woodblock Prints