Zaotou Painting Inheritor

Zaotou painting inheritor is Shi Shunguan.

The inheritor of Zaotou painting is Shi Shunguan, one of the traditional folk arts of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, which refers to the folk artists taking the stoves used for cooking in the countryside as a carrier, and hand-painting the patterns on the walls of the stoves with various paints, which is used for decorating and beautifying the stoves and expressing the good wishes of the farmers as a vernacular art. Over the past hundreds of years, the people of Jiaxing have interpreted many stories of their lives between the stoves, giving rise to many traditional folkways and customs. Nowadays, Zaotou painting has been listed as one of China's intangible cultural heritages.

Jiaxing, since ancient times, has been known as the land of fish, rice and silk. As early as 7,000 years ago, the ancestors of Majiabang planted rice paddies in the south of the Yangtze River, and for more than 2,500 years, the Ancient Canal that runs through Jiaxing has nurtured the ever-flowing culture of this water town in the land of Wugen and Yuejiao.

Unique Style

Jiaxing Zaotou Painting is a wet wall painting created by folk artists in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, because it uses a painting method that is very similar to the wet wall method, a new fresco painting method that was popular in the Renaissance period in Europe. Wet fresco, that is, not waiting for the wall to dry in the wall plaster wet not yet fully dry when the painting. This painted on the color is easy to penetrate the damp stove wall, color and wall mixed together, later with the stove fire baking heat and natural volatility.

The stove wall surface gradually dry, stove painted patterns, drawings after ten years twenty years do not fall off, do not fade. Jiaxing Zaotou painting patterns are colorful, its pattern representation is also different, its classification is also difficult to have a very precise definition, some of the contents of the cross between the two categories, such as the "Pine and Crane Picture" is a combination of plant species and animal species. The content of the designs can be broadly categorized into seven main categories: images of gods, historical stories, landscapes, animals, auspicious characters, line patterns, artifacts and plants and fruits.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zaotou Paintings