Rainbow Village

Caihong family village was originally an ordinary family village. A veteran was interested in painting on the walls of his house with cement paint at first. His brushwork was full of childish clumsiness and full of personal characteristics. Slowly, the old man's painting became more and more convenient, gradually from inside to outside, and soon turned the old family village into a colorful fairy tale world. But because the village is small and it takes a lot of time on the way, friends in a hurry should think it over carefully.

Rainbow Village

The legendary tourist attraction "Rainbow Dependents Village" originated from the 87 year old veteran Huang Yongfu who lives in an old Dependents Village near Lingdong University of science and technology in Nantun District, Taichung City, Taiwan. Because of his boredom, Huang Yongfu picked up his paintbrush and used the alleys and alleys in the Dependents Village as a natural canvas. He painted all kinds of beautiful rainbow lines and lovely animals on it, which not only brightened the village, but also attracted people on the Internet There was a heated discussion and a wave of visits. Because of his bold colors, lovely composition and childlike fun, visitors feel like they are in a rainbow world, so netizens call this "Rainbow Village".

Basic introduction

Huang Yongfu, an 87 year old veteran who originated from an old family village near Lingdong University of science and technology in Nantun District, Taichung City, picked up his brush because he was "bored" and used the Xiangnong street in the family village as a natural canvas. He painted all kinds of beautiful rainbow lines and lovely animals on it, which not only brightened the village, but also aroused heated discussion on the Internet and formed a trend of visits .

Mr. Huang Yongfu began painting when he was 86 years old. He used his brush to sketch a colorful fairy tale world in the old houses and streets of the family village.

At first, the old man just used a paintbrush to describe his mind in and out of his house to pass the time. Later, many neighbors were attracted by his childlike paintings and invited him to paint. In this way, the old man inadvertently created a colorful legend. Today, his family village in chunanli, Taichung City, has been given a nice name: "rainbow family village", and has become a popular local scenic spot, attracting about 500000 people to visit every year. Huang Yongfu, a veteran of Hong Kong, is affectionately known as "Rainbow grandfather". Entering the "Rainbow Village", the ground and walls are painted with colorful and playful rabbits, chickens, monkeys, birds, cartoon characters, flowers, the sun and rainbow. Red, yellow, blue, green, white, gorgeous colors and imaginative lines make people immediately in the fairy tale world.

The tens of meters long tunnel at the entrance of the village is the place where "Rainbow grandfather" paints most and is also the most lively place. The colors of the paintings here are bright and warm. The ground is painted with red background, and the shapes of birds, chickens and rabbits are outlined with white and yellow. The walls are divided into blocks, sometimes with blue background, sometimes with white or yellow background, and hundreds of cartoon monkeys, cats and children are painted on them.

Huang Yongfu

Huang Yongfu was born in Hong Kong. When he was young, he joined Taiwan as a pilot. Later, he was injured and lived alone in his family village. In his later years, he was depressed.

At the age of 86, in order to pass the time, he began to pick up the art of painting in his childhood, painting in front of and behind the house, and dispelling his thoughts. Before long, the floors, walls, doors and windows of the alleys in the village were covered with colorful, playful and exaggerated rainbows, flowers, animals, celebrity portraits and other paintings. The old and dark family village turned into a colorful fairy tale world.

Mr. Huang Yongfu's home is in this alley, which is easy to find, because the front door of his home has been pasted with a note left by tourists, which is full of blessing words: "grandfather rainbow, your creation makes the ordinary family village have extraordinary color"; "the painting is so beautiful, please continue to be colorful." From time to time, the "Rainbow grandfather" will go out of the house at the request of tourists and take photos with them. He doesn't mind that when the tourists are tired, he pushes open the door to visit his old house of more than ten square meters. Although the house is not big, dozens of cartoon characters and animal models are painted on the walls, all kinds of woodcuts are placed on the bed, and all kinds of watercolor pens, brushes and paper are on the table. The old man said that now and then tourists from mainland China and Hong Kong will come to visit and take photos. Painting has become a habit of Huang Yongfu's life. He paints every day. In order not to disturb the neighbors who need to go to work in the morning, he went out to paint in the lane at the entrance of the village at four o'clock in the morning. It costs several thousand NT dollars a month just to buy paint for outdoor painting.

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According to Taiwan's Lianhe Bao, there is a strange old family village in Taichung, which is different from the gray and dilapidated family village in general. This family village is full of bright lines and colors, so it is called "rainbow family village". "Rainbow Dependents Village" is like a fantastic magic world, which attracts many people to take photos and enjoy. Every weekend, it is crowded with curious people. Everyone is amazed at this Rainbow Dependents Village!

The real name of "Rainbow Village" behind Lingdong University of science and technology in Taichung is "Gancheng six villages". However, most of the entire villages have been demolished, and only a small part of the houses still exist. The whole area is filled with the sense of intimacy and the uncertainty that the villages were about to demolish.

An old uncle picked up a paintbrush and began to doodle in the houses of his family's village. Uncle Huang Yongfu, who was originally from Hong Kong, joined the army in his early years in response to the call of "100000 young people and 100000 army". Later, he came to Taiwan with the army and only moved to this family's village more than ten years ago. When he began to doodle, magical colors and patterns were born under his brush, which made the old and dilapidated family village show magical charm. The patterns of flowers and grass, aliens, pandas and little people attracted many people's attention. Everyone came together to watch and take photos, even to take wedding photos of the bride and bridegroom.

Everyone's enthusiastic appreciation made the old man paint more energetically and harder. He continued to paint from the wall to the door panel, from the floor to the wall, and even the ditch cover on the ground. In his colorful graffiti, presents a kind of fantasy interest. Carefully observe his paintings, each graffiti is marked with the date of painting, the latest date is mid September, which means that he is still working hard with enthusiasm.

Uncle Huang's painting has changed the landscape of a family village, which is very moving! His style is reminiscent of the late plain painter Mr. Hong Tong, but Uncle Huang's paintings are more lovely, colorful and even Mexican. Similar spontaneous artistic creations exist all over the world. They are like wild flowers in the desert. They bloom tenaciously and add surprise to this boring city!

"Rainbow family village" is a spontaneous art action of ordinary people. The artistic creation is as brilliant as the public art activities organized by the general government. Moreover, because there is no utilitarian color, it has more artistic purity. "Rainbow Dependents Village" can be classified as a cultural landscape of a city, and it is also a precious tourism asset of the city. In the past, this kind of cultural landscape was often demolished or destroyed under the consideration of practical interests, which is really a tyranny! If it can be preserved and incorporated into the urban tourism network system, it will help to enhance the cultural connotation of urban tourism and increase the diversity of tourism resources.

Thinking that the "Rainbow Dependents Village" may be demolished in the future, I can't help but feel worried. Maybe we should launch an activity to preserve the "Rainbow Dependents Village" and urge Taichung Municipal Bureau of culture to come forward to preserve this cultural asset. The preservation of this "Rainbow Dependents Village" will add a wonderful tourist attraction to Taichung.

address

Address: Lane 56, Chun'an Road, Nantun District, Taichung city. You can take bus No.27 from Taichung train to Lingdong University of science and technology.

[mass transportation] take a bus to Taichung railway station → take bus 27 to Taichung passenger station (Lingdong University of science and technology route $35) → get off at Gancheng Liucun → go to the archway of Gancheng Liucun → go straight to the end of the path opposite the gate of Chun'an elementary school → right transfer to see a small park → Caihong juncun [self driving] drive down Zhongshan Expressway → Nantun interchange in Taichung → go to Longjing Turn right to the third section of Wuquan West Road, turn left to Zhongyong Road, turn right to Yongchun South Road, turn left to Lingdong Road, turn right to Jiangong Road, turn right to Chunan primary school, go straight to the end of the path opposite the gate of the primary school, turn right to see a small park, rainbow village

Address: Lane 56, Chun'an Road, Nantun District, Taichung City (next to Taichung Lingdong University of science and Technology)

Longitude: 120.60997210443

Latitude: 24.133941422132

Tour time: 0.5-1 hour

Traffic information: take Taichung bus No.26, 70, 99 and get off at Caihong juncun station

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

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