Inheritance and Protection of Jiangzhou Woodblock New Year Pictures

With the changes of the times, Jiangzhou woodblock New Year pictures gradually fade out of people's sight and are forgotten by society. In order to arouse people's confidence in the reappearance of Jiangzhou woodcut New Year pictures and attract the attention of cultural departments at all levels, cultural departments at all levels have done a lot of work on Jiangzhou woodcut New Year pictures, published the materials of Jinnan woodcut New Year pictures, and held the "Shanxi Xinjiang Folk Art Exhibition" in 1986, successively in Chongqing, Taiyuan,

Folk cultural workers and old folk artists actively guide and train young woodblock New Year picture writers. Vocational schools offer woodcut New Year pictures training, cultural workers go deep into it, organize counseling, let young people love woodcut New Year pictures, shoulder the responsibility of connecting the preceding with the following, and let Jiangzhou woodcut New Year pictures succeed others.

Wu Baisuo and Li Hua, masters of folk culture and crafts in Yuncheng City, are deeply saddened to see the historical and cultural heritage of woodblock New Year pictures being constantly destroyed. Determined to save this cultural treasure, they have persisted in collecting, sorting out and protecting old editions, paintings and scrolls for decades, and visited old printmakers many times to learn printmaking skills. On the basis of collecting and rescuing ancient prints and learning printmaking skills for many years, Jiangzhou Woodblock New Year Pictures Institute (Ertianmen New Year Pictures Society in Xinjiang, Shanxi Province) was established in 2007, specializing in the collection, protection, collation, research and creation of Jiangzhou Woodblock New Year Pictures. * * * Collected more than 500 ancient prints and 600 ancient paintings in various periods, dating back to the Ming Dynasty at the earliest. Among them, 46 versions and paintings were included in the book "China Woodblock New Year Pictures Integration-Jiangzhou Volume". The smallest Jiangzhou woodcut New Year picture in the collection is smaller than the thumb, and the largest "Fu Lushou Samsung" is nearly 2 meters long and wide, which is the largest woodcut New Year picture in China. There are dozens of unique editions of Jiangzhou woodblock New Year Pictures in the collection, such as Guan Gong Read the Spring and Autumn Annals, God Bless the People, Gua Die Mianmian, etc., all of which are old editions of the Ming Dynasty and have made great contributions to the protection, inheritance, development and promotion of Jiangzhou woodblock New Year Pictures. After several years of rapid development, the works of Ertianmen New Year Pictures Society have been innovated on the basis of inheriting the traditional woodblock New Year pictures, reaching a high artistic level, being recognized by experts and scholars from all walks of life, and having a high popularity and influence in Shanxi and even the whole country.