What is a flower lion?

Flower lion (peasant painting) This is a peasant painting by Ansai in northern Shaanxi.

The Flower Lion is Zhang's traditional Chinese painting, a peasant painting in Ansai, northern Shaanxi. This picture shows a colorful lioness with two tender and lovely cubs, and her face is full of happy love.

Peasant painting is not only a kind of painting art, but also a new kind of painting that has gradually matured in recent years. This is a painting created and appreciated by farmers themselves.

It has a peculiar style and exaggerated techniques, including paper horses, door paintings, statues printed by farmers themselves and auspicious pictures painted on the kang, stove, gable and cornice of houses, and has the reputation of Oriental Picasso. In recent years, the relevant state departments have attached great importance to the development of peasant paintings, and peasant paintings in some places have been rated as intangible cultural heritage inheritance projects.

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It is an art of manually reproducing nature on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, people often called painting "the art of monkeys". Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting, the higher the technology. But after entering the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to the direction of expressing the painter's subjective self.

Painting is a form of capturing, recording and expressing different creative purposes, and the number of participants is also huge. The nature of painting can be natural and symbolic (such as still life or landscape painting), photographic painting, abstract painting, narrative, symbol, emotion or politics.