Ningbo Ni Jin color paint

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Ningbo Ni Jin color paint

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 1166

Project No.: Ⅶ - 109

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Ningbo Oriental Art Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of Ningbo Nijin color paint

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

As one of the traditional "three gold" crafts in Ningbo, Ni Jin color lacquer is a kind of lacquer painting technology characterized by the combination of Ni Jin Technology and color lacquer technology. It is mainly distributed in Ninghai County and its surrounding areas.

Mud gold color paint has a long history. Its origin can be traced back to the wooden and vermilion lacquer bowl with a history of more than 7000 years unearthed from the Hemudu site in Yuyao. In Ming Dynasty, the technology of Ni Jin colored lacquer had reached its peak. In Xuande period of Ming Dynasty, Ningbo Ni Jin colored lacquer and painted gold lacquer ware were famous at home and abroad. The mud gold color paint of Qing Dynasty still continues its glorious history and develops forward. During the period of the Republic of China, Ningbo Ni Jin color paint was also brilliant for a time, and its works often appeared in exhibitions at home and abroad, and were highly praised by people at home and abroad. At the "first national exhibition of folk arts and crafts" held in 1953, Ningbo Ni Jin color lacquer's double dragon bucket, rice bowl, powder bucket and other works were praised by experts.

Ni Jin color paint is closely related to people's life in Ningbo, ranging from sleeping bed, cabinet and other interior furniture to daily utensils such as bucket, fruit box and hat bucket, reflecting local people's living habits and customs.

Chinese lacquer and gold foil are the main raw materials of Ni Jin color paint. Due to the difference of production methods, it can be divided into three types: heap mud (heap plastic), asphalt powder and mud gold color painting. One technique can be used to make utensils alone, or three methods can be used to make a product with rich technology. Piling mud is the most unique technology of Ni Jin color paint. It is made of raw lacquer, tile ash or oyster ash in a certain proportion on the plane, and then piled with landscape, flowers and birds, figures, pavilions and other decorations on the wood body, and then gilded and colored. With its elegant, simple and colorful style, it can be widely used in the surface decoration of home architecture, daily life appliances, etc., as well as the exhibition of Hall art.

With the change of people's life style and concept, Ni Jin color paint gradually lost its market. Today, only a small number of artists are making in Ninghai County, which is rarely seen in other places.