Characteristics of Regong Art in Qinghai

Its main feature is that it belongs to traditional meticulous painting. It is to carve and paint the depicted object with meticulous and realistic brushwork, so that the object is more vivid, real and full of charm in an intuitive state. Therefore, there is a high demand for the production of brush. There are about 40 kinds of brush made by Regong painters themselves, the big ones are like letters in the middle of the brush, and the small ones have only one hair. Different pens have different uses. The production of canvas is highly technical and intense, and an excellent painter must master the special craft of making canvas. The ink used for manuscript writing is a traditional painting material made by local painters, which is still used today and is a painting pigment with unique local characteristics. Mineral pigments are used in the painting, which is colorful and durable. Painting with gold is a unique specialty of Regong art, and painting on gold is an artistic stunt. His works are vivid in modeling, exquisite in meticulous brushwork, even in color setting, vivid in characterization, and strong in line sense, color sense, movement sense and subjectivity. Therefore, it has a wide influence at home and abroad and has a long reputation. It is the most distinctive and potential tourism brand in Tongren County. It has been officially listed in the second batch of pilot units and the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage recommendation list of "China National Folk Culture Protection Project".