The Importance of Summer Cloth Paintings

Harp cloth is named after the fact that it is soft and gentle, and is a good material for summer clothing. The raw material for this fabric is Ramie, and Ramie is now known as Summer Fabric, which is made from Ramie through the traditional handmade process of yarn spinning and weaving. There is a difference between raw and matured summer fabric. Raw summer fabric is light straw yellow in color, which is easy to create Chinese paintings, while matured summer fabric is bleached to become fabric that can be dyed and printed, which is not suitable for creating Chinese paintings. Since Ramie fiber cannot be processed by modern textile machinery compared to cotton fiber, it can only be produced by traditional handcrafts, and therefore, this traditional handcraft is listed as one of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of China. Summer cloth is still produced by hand in Longchang, Sichuan and Rongchang, Chongqing, China, Wanzai, Jiangxi and Liuyang, Hunan. Summer cloth is generally plain and narrow, Chongqing Rongchang produces a wide variety of summer cloth, the width of 33CM, 60CM, 100CM, suitable for creating a variety of wide Chinese paintings. Rongchang's summer cloth production techniques have been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage. Moreover, it has been combined with two other national intangible cultural heritages of Rongchang, namely, folding fan and pottery, to produce "summer cloth wrapped pottery" and "summer cloth folding fan". This also fully demonstrates the recognition of the historical inheritance and development of Xia Bu in Rongchang.

China cloth painting is a Chinese painting created by painters using the color differences naturally formed in Chinese summer cloth and the texture effect naturally formed in the production process of traditional handcrafts. Chinese summer cloth has a natural anti-counterfeiting mark, and Chinese paintings created on summer cloth ensure the authenticity, uniqueness and inimitability of the original work.

Chinese paintings created on Chinese summer cloth, its natural unique texture effect and the uniqueness of the creation of the work of the formation of the natural anti-counterfeiting mark not only to ensure the authenticity of the original work, but also to ensure that the original work of the non-replicability, which greatly reduces the investment risk of the investment collectors, investors investing in the summer cloth paintings will soon become a connoisseur of the summer cloth paintings, this is because of the summer cloth is a natural and special This is because of the natural and special texture effect decided by the summer cloth. For famous painters and calligraphers to choose summer cloth as painting materials, not only to ensure the authenticity of the original works, but also to prevent the emergence of counterfeits, thus ensuring the investment interests of investors, coupled with the natural color of the summer cloth and the value of their own existence, collecting a Chinese summer cloth painting is not only the protection of China's intangible cultural heritage, but also to make a long-lasting inheritance of Chinese paintings. So summer cloth will become the third largest raw material for Chinese painting after silk and rice paper. The emergence of Chinese summer cloth painting will integrate the traditional Chinese painting with the ancient Chinese summer cloth culture. The emergence of Chinese summer cloth painting promotes the process of discovering the intangible cultural heritage of Chinese summer cloth, and opens a new chapter in the history of painting in China and even in the world. We believe that the emergence of Chinese summer cloth painting will become another wonder of national culture after Chinese silk painting and Chinese Xuan paper painting.

The reason why Chinese summer cloth paintings are loved by people is that the natural and unique texture effect of summer cloth and the regional and national style characteristics are incomparable to other painting materials. Chinese summer cloth painting with the improvement of people's living standards, changes in aesthetics, respect for green nature, anti-puristic awareness of the increase, has been the majority of domestic and foreign painting and calligraphy collectors love.