Xinhui Kuiyi

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Xinhui Kuiyi

Applicant: Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Project No.: 868

Project No.: Ⅶ - 92

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: traditional handicraft business center of Kui Township, Huicheng, Xinhui District

Introduction to Xinhui sunflower Art

Applicant: Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Guangdong Xinhui is a famous historical city with profound cultural heritage, which has been established for more than 1800 years. It is rich in pukui, known as "Kui township". Sunflower art in Xinhui has a long history. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, sunflower planting and processing began. After more than a thousand years of exploration, Xinhui people have integrated knitting, embroidery, painting, printing and other processes, making the processing of Kuiyi products to a superb situation. During the two hundred years from Qianlong to the end of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, the development of sunflower art in Xinhui reached its peak. The planting area of sunflower trees in Xinhui is up to 60000 mu, and the annual output of sunflower fans is up to 150 million stalks. The products are exported to Europe, America and Southeast Asia. In the 1930s and 1940s, sunflower art in Xinhui suffered a devastating blow. The well-known bamboo shell sunflower art was lost, and the whole sunflower art industry plummeted. Only the Zhao family still tried their best to inherit the fire painting sunflower fan art. In 1952, the fire painting fan made by Chen Wan, an old painter, was listed as a special handicraft by the state. Xinhui Kuiyi art took this opportunity to revive and developed thousands of flower varieties in ten categories, such as flower mat, flower basket, cushion, toothpick and cap. Guo Moruo once used "cool world, from the hands.". He is more skillful than a ghost axe. The poem "flying all over the world, overwhelming the west wind" praises the sunflower fans produced by Xinhui, and gives high praise to the sunflower art of Xinhui.

After entering the 1990s, under the impact of air conditioning and other modern household appliances, sunflower fans gradually withdrew from people's daily life, Xinhui sunflower art declined gradually, related enterprises closed down one after another, and many descendants of sunflower art were forced to change careers. Zhao's descendants of fire painting sunflower art gathered several old craftsmen to set up the traditional crafts development center of Huicheng sunflower Township in Xinhui District to carry out workshop style sunflower art production, but the output is very limited. At present, the situation of faults in the inheritance of sunflower art in Xinhui has been improved, but the prospect is still not optimistic. We must strengthen the protection to ensure the orderly inheritance of this traditional art.