Folk stove painting

Kitchen stove paintings all over Jiaxing rural areas represent the unique aesthetic taste of farmers and reflect the people's yearning for a prosperous life. They are a wonderful flower in the folk culture of Jiangnan water towns and become the representative works of unique local art in Jiaxing area. At the end of last year, Jiaxing stove painting was included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list in Zhejiang Province. The shapes of Jiaxing peasant stoves are roughly as follows: flower basket shape (the foot of the stove is hexagonal), which is called "flower basket stove" locally; Rectangular, known as "small square stove"; Cylindrical, known as "sleeve stove". The painting parts of the stove are mainly the stove body, smoke box, stove mountain and stove cap. According to the structure of the stove, the number of paintings painted by folk masons varies, ranging from 15 to 20 to 10 to 15, with different sizes and shapes. The content of painting includes flowers and plants, such as lotus, pomegranate, Xiantao, peony, evergreen, etc. Animals, such as carp, magpie, crane, dragon and phoenix, rooster, etc. God of wealth, such as the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, cornucopia, etc. Historical stories, such as Zhao Yun's Saving Adou and Gu Chenghui; Scenery, such as pagodas and sunrises. At the same time, it is equipped with lace and words, most of which are auspicious words such as happiness, happiness, more than a year, good luck, rich life, prosperous people and wealth. Many pictures on a stove are different in size, patchwork, illustrated, bright and eye-catching, full of composition and exaggerated in shape. Jiaxing stove painting is not only a variety of folk art, but also has folk connotation, such as offering sacrifices to stoves. Therefore, stove painting is not only a unique practical art, but also has obvious folk utility. Kitchen paintings spread all over Jiaxing rural areas have also spawned and cultivated a large number of outstanding folk kitchen artists. These folk artists are the creators and disseminators of Jiaxing folk art and the precious wealth of Jiaxing folk culture. Shi Shunguan, a villager in Mojiadian Village, Jingzhen Town, Wang Jiang, created a kitchen stove painting that combines painting and sculpture. Because of his exquisite and famous kitchen stove painting, he was elected as the "inheritor of Jiaxing kitchen painting art", included in the second batch of Jiaxing folk artists, and became the first representative inheritor of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage.
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