Diary of a trip to Mianzhu New Year Painting Village in Sichuan

On an autumn day, I came to Mianzhu, Sichuan. When I went to Sichuan, I heard that the New Year Painting Village in Xiaode Town, Mianzhu City is one of the four major New Year paintings in China. I couldn't help myself and went to visit the New Year Painting Village to witness its elegance. When we went there, it was raining lightly, and we drove to Mianzhu New Year Painting Village.

When you walk into the New Year Painting Village, you will immediately see an antique street, with large green vegetable fields and wheat fields beside the road, and rows of farmhouses with white walls and gray tiles, simple and unsophisticated, and well-proportioned. Exquisite New Year pictures are painted on the outer walls of every house... It makes people feel like they have entered a huge New Year picture exhibition hall. What a beautiful New Year picture! The entire New Year Picture Village is filled with a rich artistic atmosphere of traditional Chinese New Year pictures.

These New Year paintings are colorful, lifelike, and symmetrical. They include historical heroes such as Kong Ming and Zhang Fei, wonderful scenes from novels and operas, statues of warrior gods, animals, flowers, and fruits, etc. The most interesting among them are folk legends such as "A Mouse Marries a Girl", "Three Monkeys Scalding a Pig", "A Dog Bites the God of Wealth", and "The Official Steals the Pot". Basically, the pictures on the outdoor walls of every household are not repeated, and people even compete to see whose picture has the best theme, good color, and attractiveness.

Walking into the painting boat, several college students were painting live there, sketching out the outline of the New Year pictures with just a few strokes. A female college student said that after graduating from college, they came to the New Year Painting Village to develop. When they saw the colorful and graceful New Year paintings, their hands were itchy and they wanted to draw a work immediately. Especially after the earthquake, Mianzhu New Year pictures came off the walls and paper and appeared on practical items such as T-shirts, handbags, teacups, and fans, as well as some hanging ornaments. These unique New Year pictures are displayed in the clean government New Year picture area, cultural and sports display area, daily necessities area, Three Kingdoms characters area, tourist merchandise area, etc.

When I walked out of the painting boat, I saw several stone statues standing in the grass. There were "Drama Entertainment, Deer Breast Bride" and other folk figures of the twenty-four filial piety figures that have been passed down through the ages. They promoted the virtues of filial piety of the Chinese nation and added a strong sense of history and culture to the painting boat. .

Relatives said: “There is an eighth-generation heir of New Year paintings who is over 90 years old in the village. The walls of his house are covered with a series of New Year paintings. Tourists come to visit every day. Now it has become one of the tourist attractions of the New Year Painting Village. His grandson, who is in his 30s, learned New Year picture painting techniques from his grandfather since he was a child. Through his grandfather’s exquisite carvings, he soon grew into a new New Year picture inheritor. He is also well-known in the village and runs a New Year picture shop. He is famous for it. There is an endless stream of people coming to learn New Year paintings. "

New Year paintings have driven the development of the tertiary industry of farmers in the New Year painting village. Rural tourism and farmhouse entertainment, including some special tourism products in the village, have flourished on this basis.

According to historical records: Mianzhu New Year paintings have a long history. They originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and entered a prosperous period in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing years, there were more than 300 large and small New Year painting workshops in Mianzhu County, with more than 1,000 New Year painting professionals, and an annual output of more than 12 million New Year paintings. In addition to being sold to the two lakes, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan, the products were also exported to India. , Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Hong Kong and Macao and other countries and regions.

Since Sichuan people love to eat chili hot pot and spicy dishes, these spicy flavors are reflected in the Mianzhu New Year paintings. Their colors are bright, dazzling, cheerful and eye-catching. These are all influenced by Bashu cultural influence. Mianzhu New Year pictures have rich local charm and local characteristics and are deeply loved by Chinese and foreign people.