Guizhou'S Traditional Dyeing Process Moves From Folk To Modern

< p > > Guizhou a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/" > batik < /a >: also known as "Guizhou wax flower", it can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty more than 2000 years ago.

It is unique in Guizhou folk art with its elegant colors, beautiful patterns and rich cultural connotations.

Batik is an ancient "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "anti staining technology < /a", known as "wax valerian", together with the three basic types of ancient Chinese dyeing technology.

The charm of batik handicraft is not only the beautiful design, but also the cracks on the fabric after the wax is cooled. The pigment penetrates into the cracks and gets a variety of color patterns, commonly known as "ice patterns".

With the same pattern design, different icing patterns can be obtained after making batik.

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< p > the hometown of batik is Anshun, Guizhou, China.

Anshun is a famous tourist city in China. There are many famous scenic spots, such as Huangguoshu Waterall, Dragon Palace, Tunpu culture (Tianlong Town, Yunfeng eight Zhai, etc.), Tianxing bridge, Huajiang Grand Canyon and so on.

Anshun successfully held the first batik art festival in 1992, attracting many guests from home and abroad. Since then, batik art has moved to the whole country and to the world.

There are lots of batik mills and factories in Anshun, and a number of famous batik artists have emerged, such as Hong Fuyuan.

Batik in Anshun is continuing to innovate while inheriting tradition.

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< p > Guizhou batik is a household centered handicraft sideline. Due to the characteristics of Guizhou's regional and ethnic diversity, Guizhou folk tradition < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > printing and dyeing process > /a > has strong regional characteristics, namely, different nationalities or different regions have different technological characteristics.

Guizhou batik is mainly popular in Miao, Buyi and Shui minority areas. It is a folk art with a long history, created and used by the working people.

Some of them have relatively primitive technological forms, such as directly filling red with animal blood, bayberry juice, or mixed with rice straw ash, cooking and dyeing, while others are more exquisite, such as Huang Ping, Anshun and other areas of Miao color batik, and Qiannan and southwest of Guizhou.

Guizhou batik art has formed a unique style of national art, and it is a flower of national art with the most distinctive features in China.

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In order to carry forward this traditional process, the experts first conducted a thorough and comprehensive study of folk wax printing in Guizhou in their respective fields. At the height of modern culture, they absorbed the essence of other art categories and pushed the artistic creation of Guizhou batik to a new height. P

During the efforts of artists such as Chen Ningkang, Fu Mulan, Pu Guochang and Zhou Shiying, the cultural character of Guizhou batik has undergone a revolutionary qualitative change today: gradually breaking away from the erosion of small craft toys and commercialization and vulgarization, and as an independent and highly sophisticated modern art style, it has entered the contemporary cultural field of vision, rising from the practical level of the folk and practicality to the artistic level of individual creativity and creativity, and truly become an art of great landscape rooted in the soil of national culture.

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< p > the evolution of folk wax printing in Guizhou is the result of bold exploration and positive innovation of contemporary batik artists in Guizhou. It is also an inevitable choice for national folk art with strong internal vitality to seek changes in the map and respond to the challenges of the times.

It shows that under the collision of diverse Eastern and Western cultures, it is rooted in the fertile soil of the local culture, exploring the manifestation of modern batik and opening up the modern new meaning from the tradition. It is still a feasible way for Chinese traditional art to modernism reconstruction, including Guizhou batik.

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The Enlightenment of "P > Guizhou batik from folk to modern is that it not only revitalized the dying a href=" http://www.91se91.com "printing process, but also provided an effective cultural strategy for dispelling the aggressive hegemony of Western cultural center.

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