Miao painting

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: Miao painting

Applicant: Baojing County, Hunan Province

Project No.: 1155

Project No.: Ⅶ - 98

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Hunan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Baojing County, Hunan Province

Protection unit: Baojing Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Introduction to Miao paintings:

Applicant: Baojing County, Hunan Province

Miao painting is an independent painting developed on the basis of traditional monochrome embroidery pattern. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Zhengyi, a Miao who was proficient in painting, began to use white powder to paint directly on dark colored cloth instead of the old "file" paper-cut for women to embroider directly according to the painting. The embroidery sample of this kind of painting on grey cloth is vivid and full of interest, and the lines are fluent and emotional, which is very popular with women. People are reluctant to cover these beautiful lines with embroidery, so they directly hang the painting on the wall for decoration. As a result, Wang Zhengyi changed the white line drawing into color drawing, which became a simple cloth painting for clothing, window curtains, door curtains and interior decoration. Later, Wang Zhengyi taught his brother-in-law, Yang Chuxin, and his brothers the art of drawing Miao paintings. Yangchuxin is good at depicting wild flowers, insects, birds and animals, which is widely welcomed by local Miao women. At the beginning of the 20th century, Liang qiurui, a Miao artist in Baojing County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, inherited the art of Miao painting and developed it in his family.

The Miao paintings created by the Liang family are rich in themes, which mostly reflect the history and reality of Miao culture, production and life, commodity trade, folk beliefs and so on. The common images on the picture are dragon, Phoenix, flower, grass, fish, shrimp, insect, bird, bamboo, wood, etc. after careful drawing by the painter, and combined with the totem worship pattern of the Miao nationality, the picture organically combines the migration history of the ancient Miao people with the natural mountains, rivers, clouds, sun and moon, characters, buildings, and legendary immortals and gods to make the picture beautiful Every pattern and color on the screen contains rich cultural connotation. The painter adopts the combination of realism and abstraction, exaggeration and deformation, freedom and preciseness, which makes the picture present a very unique aesthetic value and primitive and passionate romantic style.

Today's Miao paintings still retain the clothing, quilt cover, bed curtain, door curtain, hall curtain, bedside, wall hanging, accessories and other styles, and their contents mostly show the theme of happy and auspicious life. The composition of the work is bold, the lines are chic, the colors are rich and harmonious, and it is gorgeous but not vulgar, with distinct national characteristics.