Where is Yangjiabu Village?

Yangjiabu Village is located at 1.5km south of Hanting District Government in Weifang City. Yangjiabu Village has 380 households 1.200 people, with a land area of 1.65 square kilometers, including cultivated land 1.00 hectares.

During the Warring States period, there were settlements on the present village ruins. Cultural relics of the Warring States period were unearthed in the west (now in the courtyard of Hanting Meteorological Bureau), and pottery and bronze mirrors of the Han Dynasty were unearthed in the south of the village. Yangjiabu was built in Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Yang's ancestors moved to Shandong from Zitong County, Sichuan Province. He first lived in Xiadian Village (later called Bian Xia Village, once called Central Jiabu, commonly known as Old Zhuangzi) on the west bank of Hanting Society in Chongdao Township, Weizhou, and then moved to Xibu to set up a new village. Xijiabu, also known as Yangjiabu, is named after its location, surname and terrain.

Yangjiabu Village is one of the three woodblock New Year pictures in China and the birthplace of Weifang kites.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Yang's ancestral home, Zhonghua Township, Zitong County, Sichuan Province, was the birthplace of New Year pictures. Yang Boda, born in a family of New Year pictures, is a famous local woodcarver. He is good at painting, stereotype and printing technology, as well as making lanterns and paper colors. After coming to Shandong, he resumed his ancestral business, combined with Shandong customs, created Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures, founded Tongshuntang painting shop, specializing in New Year pictures, and also operated folk handicrafts such as kites, lanterns, paper colors, fans and cloth pendants. For more than 600 years, this craft has been passed down from generation to generation, and talents have come forth in large numbers, constantly inheriting and innovating.

Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures have a wide range of themes. There are exorcism, auspiciousness, customs and people's feelings, historical stories, myths and legends, novels and operas, current affairs humor, entertainment, landscapes and flowers, auspicious birds and animals, as well as maps, calligraphy, weighing songs and so on. The main forms are civil and military door gods, fan paintings, door-blocking judgments, kang paintings, window decorations, nave, statues and so on. Exaggerated modeling, full composition, free imagination, symbolic meaning, bright colors and combination of pictures and texts. The process is divided into pattern making, woodcut, color matching, product baking and so on.

Yangjiabu kites have a wide range of materials, profound meanings and diverse shapes. There are more than 300 kinds of traditional kites, which can be roughly divided into auspiciousness, longevity, peace, magic, love, flowers and birds, etc. Form can be divided into plate type, hard airfoil type, soft airfoil type, chord type and cylinder type. Each type is divided into five types: super-large, large, medium, small and micro. Yangjiabu kite and woodblock New Year pictures are married, forming a big faction. The picture is vivid, the theme is prominent, the form is vivid, the color is strong, the contrast is strong, the shape is generous, the image is beautiful, the technology is exquisite, and painting is equally important. The process is divided into sample setting, material selection, blanking, modeling, binding, pasting, painting, assembly, corner line binding and flight test. Yangjiabu kites are "beautiful, affordable and cheap" and are deeply loved by customers.

During the Qianlong and Jiaqing years in the Qing Dynasty, the village entered a prosperous stage, and there was a scene of "every household printing New Year pictures and every household wearing kites", which was called "hundreds of painting shops, thousands of paintings and tens of thousands of drawing boards". Together with Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Taohuawu in Suzhou, it is called the three major painting cities in China. During the Guangxu period, every winter, art dealers gathered and competed to buy, and the painting shop in the village stayed up all night to make New Year pictures. There are more than 5,000 art dealers, using more than 20,000 reams of paper and printing 70 million pictures. At that time, artists Liu Mingjie and Yang Zhonghai once created satirical and humorous New Year pictures reflecting current politics, such as Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Chang 'an, feeling dignified, which broke through the theme category of traditional New Year pictures. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the New Year pictures industry was once depressed. Dongdashun Painting Shop invited folk painters, Yang and Yang Wandong to innovate the New Year pictures and produce practical woodblock New Year pictures such as maps, moon cakes, songs and decals. He also introduced the interest of literati painting into New Year pictures, and created Indus, Four Fragrant Flowers and Birds, and Four Screens of Landscape. The printing process has been improved, and the works are simple and elegant, which can be sold all the year round and achieve good economic benefits. Later, influenced by the war, political movement and the Cultural Revolution, the drawing board was destroyed and the New Year pictures were banned.

Since 1980s, Yangjiabu New Year pictures have been thoroughly remoulded. Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures Research Institute was established to rescue endangered species and restore family production. 1986, the earliest and largest kite factory in China was first built. 1500 copies (sets) of Yangjiabu New Year pictures, such as the Eight Immortals Picture, New Year pictures lens and New Year pictures restoration, were ordered by the Ministry of Culture and distributed to embassies of more than 20 countries for international cultural exchange projects. During this period, many folk artists went abroad to perform New Year pictures or kite-making skills. Party and state leaders, foreign friends and cultural celebrities have also visited Yangjiabu many times for inspection and guidance, and tourists flocked to observe and appreciate Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures. Yangjiabu has become a hot spot of folk tourism in Weifang.

There are a large number of outstanding New Year pictures and kite artists in Yangjiabu Village, including Yang, who is praised by experts as "China Kite King". Yang Luoshu, awarded the title of "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by UNESCO, is known as the king of Chinese New Year pictures.

In 2006, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Yangjiabu Village is close to Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden (Yangjiabu Folk Culture Ancient Village), Yangjiabu Old Woodcut New Year Pictures Workshop in Hanting, Liu Yishan Luohe Scenic Area, Yu Wang Wetland Park and other tourist attractions, including Yangjiabu Kite, Weixian Root Carving, Weixian Radish, One-hole Bridge Yam, Hanting Watermelon and so on. Yangjiabucun specialty he food Yangjiabu kite

China is the hometown of kites, which has a history of more than 2,000 years since it was recorded in writing. Weifang is one of the earliest places where kite flying was invented. Yangjiabu kite is a unique school, even a major school. Like Yangjiabu New Year Pictures, it is a treasure in China's national art treasure house.

Weixian root carving

Root carving, referred to as root art for short, is the art of processing roots, that is, people use the natural beauty of roots and the wonderful techniques of nature to show it. It is said that the root art began in the Warring States, formed in the Han and Jin Dynasties, developed in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Most root art works are appreciated by a few literati, dignitaries and ordinary people.

Yangjiabu Village Folk Culture Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures

Yangjiabu is one of the three major producing areas of folk woodblock New Year pictures in China (Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Yangjiabu in Hanting), which has been rich in woodblock New Year pictures since ancient times. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures are a wonderful flower in the treasure house of China folk art, and are well-known at home and abroad for their rich local flavor and simple and distinctive artistic style.