Huaxia Art Museum

Huaxia arts and Crafts Industry Expo Park

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Huaxia Art Expo Park generally refers to Huaxia arts and Crafts Industry Expo Park

Huaxia arts and Crafts Industry Expo Park is located in Xuejia Town, Xinbei District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

Huaxia arts and Crafts Industrial Expo Park is a key arts and Crafts Industrial Park supported by Jiangsu Province, and also a key cultural industry project in Changzhou during the 11th Five Year Plan period. It was officially opened on June 18, 2008. The park has been awarded the titles of "Jiangsu arts and Crafts Industrial Park" and "Jiangsu traditional arts and crafts characteristic industrial base" respectively by Jiangsu Provincial Department of culture and Jiangsu Provincial Economic and Trade Commission. It is also "Changzhou intangible cultural heritage protection base", "Changzhou patriotism education base" and "AA tourist attraction".

Construction process

The construction of Huaxia Art Expo Park is led by the government: it has invested 250 million yuan in advance, built 4 buildings, 10 villas, and a total of 50000 square meters of Park houses, implemented a series of preferential policies such as rent free for three years, actively gathered resources, and promoted the construction of the Park. At present, the overall planning of 4.2 square kilometers of the whole park has been completed. The main body of Huaxia Art Expo Park is enterprises: before the formal opening of the park, 15 industrial and artistic enterprises had settled in production. At the opening ceremony, another 43 industrial and artistic enterprises signed the intention to settle in, including Fujian meichengda Sculpture Industry Co., Ltd., whose chairman and international folk arts and crafts Master Li Fengqiang, once made wood carving "Longhua Sanhui" for Tianning pagoda.

The enterprises of Huaxia Art Expo Park are all creative enterprises. Its characteristic is the combination of technology and industry. Not only the finished products displayed are works of art, but also the production process can be displayed to the public, which is also a pleasant process. The new Changzhou Beihong culture and Art Co., Ltd. is located on the third floor of Gongmei Building No. 1, where the works of Wang Heming, Yixing Xu Beihong painting academy, Changzhou painting academy and Changzhou Longcheng painting and Calligraphy Academy are displayed. The most influential ones are the works of Zhang Dalin, a contemporary Chinese flower and bird painter and a visiting professor of flower and bird painting lecture of China Education Television There are more than 1000 oil paintings by Liu Weiguang, which are like a large art gallery, but these works are commodities at the same time. The studio for painters around the exhibition room makes it a base for original art.

Huaxia Art Expo Park is an industrial and artistic talent training base. Changzhou Institute of Arts and crafts, as its first base, has been training a number of local "xiuniang" for free. Director Yang Chun said that the main problem of the arts and crafts industry is its small scale and low influence. Suzhou is known as one hundred thousand embroiderers, while only a few hundred people in Changzhou are engaged in the art of random needlework.

In the second phase of the project, a building complex with Jiangnan characteristics will be built, which will form a characteristic commercial district with local snacks, bars, teahouses, leisure and entertainment. In the third phase of the project covering an area of 343 mu, Fenghuang lake will be built as a characteristic scenic spot.

Industry type

Chinese traditional arts and crafts have a wide range of fields, various categories, rich forms and exquisite skills. According to the functional value of Arts and crafts, it can be divided into practical arts and crafts and furnishing arts and crafts. According to the historical form of Arts and crafts, it can be divided into traditional arts and crafts and modern arts and crafts. According to the materials and production technology of Arts and crafts, it can be generally divided into sculpture technology, forging technology, firing technology, woodwork technology, painting technology, weaving and dyeing technology, weaving technology, painting technology and cutting technology And so on.

Since the opening of Huaxia Art Museum, not only the local traditional arts and crafts of Changzhou, such as combs, random needlework and Liuqing bamboo carving, but also the arts and crafts of Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou and other cities in the province, as well as those of Shanghai, Jiangxi, Liaoning and other places outside the Province, have entered the park. Today, the Art Museum has initially formed a scale of eight categories and dozens of varieties, including embroidery, sculpture, weaving, metal, ceramics, painting, stone art, and woodwork. In this issue, the essence is selected and recorded below for readers' convenience.

embroidery with overlapping threads in different directions

Changzhou random needle embroidery art was founded by Yang Shouyu in the early 1930s. It is the crystallization of bold innovation of Chinese traditional embroidery for thousands of years.

Disordered needle embroidery breaks the traditional plane frame of "arranging the needles and closely connecting the lines". It combines painting theory with embroidery theory. It uses needle instead of pen, line instead of color, and vertical and horizontal crossed lines to show the light and color perspective effect of various objects. The unique color matching effect of silk thread makes the work surpass the inherent three-dimensional impression of oil painting. The disorderly needlework made with wonderful needlework is especially suitable for the performance of all kinds of portraits, animals, landscapes and other subjects. As a wonderful flower among many kinds of embroidery in China, random needle embroidery was once praised by Liu Haisu as "the pioneer of Suzhou embroidery and Hunan embroidery and the peak of embroidery art".

Suzhou embroidery

Suzhou embroidery is the general name of embroidery products in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It has a history of more than 2000 years. There were records about the production of Suzhou embroidery as early as the Three Kingdoms period. The Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Suzhou embroidery. A large number of embroidery products enjoyed by the royal family were almost all made by Suzhou embroidery artists. Suzhou embroidery occupies an important position in the history of China's arts and crafts. Together with Yue embroidery, Xiang embroidery and Shu embroidery, it is known as China's "four famous embroidery". Suzhou embroidery works have a unique style of beautiful patterns, ingenious design, meticulous embroidery and elegant colors. Embroidery technology has the characteristics of "flat, neat, harmonious, smooth, smooth and even". The artistic features are summarized as follows: landscape can be divided into distant and near interest, pavilions have a deep body, characters can have a vivid view, flowers and birds can report the intimate state.

Double sided embroidery

Double sided embroidery is a kind of embroidery on the same base material and in the same embroidery process, which can be used for careful appreciation. It is one of the traditional needling methods of embroidery, also known as "liangmianguang". In the Northern Song Dynasty, double-sided embroidery reached a high level. After liberation, Suzhou embroidery artists have made great progress through research and improvement. Double sided embroidery products, as national gift exhibits, are highly praised by people at home and abroad.

cloud-pattern brocade

Yunjin is a traditional jacquard silk handicraft in Nanjing with a history of 1580 years. It is the first of the three treasures in Nanjing. Among the ancient silk fabrics, brocade represents the highest technical level. The word "Jin" is a combination of the word "Jin" and the word "silk", which means that the luxurious and valuable silk can only be worn by high-ranking officials in ancient times. There are 18 kinds of cloud brocade color matching. The main flowers are introduced layer by layer by using "color halo". They are rich and elegant, solid in texture, rich and beautiful in pattern, rich and solemn in color, and a large number of gold threads are used, forming a unique style of resplendence. Due to the exquisite materials, fine weavers, elegant and colorful patterns, just like the magnificent clouds in the sky, it is called "cloud brocade".

Liuqing bamboo carving

The bamboo carving technique of Liuqing in China originated in the Tang Dynasty, and its affinity with painting and calligraphy began in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Changzhou Liuqing bamboo carving art has a long history and has already made outstanding achievements. In modern times, there are two schools represented by Xu Su Bai and Bai Shi Feng. Liuqing bamboo carving is a kind of bamboo carving. It is to retain a layer of Qingyun on the surface of bamboo as a carving pattern, and then shovel away the bamboo outside the pattern to expose the underlying bamboo muscle as the base. Because of the green, is to leave a layer of its skin, it is also known as "skin carving". The bamboo material for the green bamboo carving is winter bamboo from deep mountain. The finished product has a smooth bottom after being treated with mould proof and moth proof technology. Bamboo is as clean as jade, and its muscle has silk pattern. The color of Zhuyun is light and yellowish with age; the longer the bamboo muscle is, the darker the color is, like amber. Liuqing bamboo carvings make full use of this difference in texture and color change, and adopt the method of keeping all, more, less or no of Qingyun to separate layers, forming a natural halo fading effect from deep to shallow color. Bright and obscure, thick and light, according to the scenery. Liuqing bamboo carving products include armrest, book town, pen holder, desk screen and desk sketch.

ivory carving

Ivory carving refers to the carving process and its finished products with ivory as the material. Tooth carving is an ancient traditional art, as well as a folk arts and crafts. Tooth is the strongest part of the elephant. It is as smooth as jade, durable and precious as gems. Therefore, ivory has the reputation of "organic gem". Ivory carving art, with its solid, fine and smooth texture and exquisite carving art, is highly valued by collectors and has become one of the unique varieties of antiques.

Wood carving

Wood carving is a work of art that carves various shapes on wood. Wood carving has a long history in China. It appeared as early as the Neolithic age. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, wood carving reached its peak. After thousands of years of development, China has formed "four major woodcarving" schools represented by Dongyang woodcarving, Yueqing boxwood carving, Fujian Longyan woodcarving and Guangdong Golden lacquer woodcarving. Dongyang woodcarving is the representative of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially in Jiangnan. Changzhou woodcarving also belongs to this school.

Jade carving

Jade carving is one of the oldest carving varieties in China. As early as the late Neolithic age, the Chinese nation had jade tools. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, making jade became a profession, and jade became a kind of ceremonial utensils and ornaments. Jade has always been regarded as a treasure. In ancient China, jade was regarded as a symbol of good things and gentleman's demeanor. There are many kinds of jade, including white jade, topaz, Jasper, jadeite, agate, turquoise, hibiscus, etc. Jade is processed and carved into exquisite handicraft, which is called Jade carving. In the process of making jade, the craftsman should choose the natural color according to different materials

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