Nanchong bamboo curtain painting

Sichuan
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Bamboo curtain painting is a kind of arts and crafts first created in Sichuan. Nanchong bamboo curtain painting is elegant and clean, with rich pictures and strong ethnic local flavor, and is called "finely crafted painted curtain". Bamboo curtain painting refers to painting on finely woven bamboo silk curtains. Nanchong bamboo curtain painting usually uses traditional Chinese painting techniques. According to the "Liangping County Chronicles", the bamboo curtains produced in Nanchong County are "as fine as hair and as dense as silk". Painted painted curtains were developed during the Guangxu period. In the early days, they were mostly used as sedan curtains; in the late Qing Dynasty, they gradually developed into a form of indoor display curtains. There are more than 100 varieties, including Tongjing screen, single strip, Doufang, screen, tent eaves, couplets, lampshades, etc. The weaving of bamboo curtain painting is very smooth and soft. Because of the foundation, the poems and paintings on it have the feeling of traditional rice paper. The most exquisite bamboo curtain painting uses silk and bamboo threads to interweave the warp and weft, and then paints landscapes, figures, flowers, feathers, animals, etc. on the curtain surface, which is seamless and as fine and moist as silk. The production of craft bamboo curtain painting is very delicate. The first step is to make the bamboo curtain embryo. Chengdu bamboo curtain painting uses the long-knotted bamboo that is abundant in the Qionglai Mountains. The knots and skin are removed, the strips are broken and the silk is drawn, and then the bamboo curtain embryo silk with uniform thickness and round cross-section is made. Then it is sent to the silk storage cylinder on the wooden manual loom. "Jijijijiji, Mulan weaves at the door", the curtain weaving girl waved her hands skillfully, using bamboo silk instead of wooden shuttle, sending left and right, the loom made a sound, and the embryo curtain was gradually formed. After trimming, cutting, installing wooden hinges, spraying varnish, and putting on the center, it became a white bamboo curtain. The white bamboo curtain was sent to the painting workshop, and the painters carefully drew it according to the requirements of the design drawings, either line drawing or freehand, or elegant or gorgeous, and it was considered a success after inspection and review. Innovation Based on bamboo curtain painting, Nanchong craftsmen added Shu embroidery to draw bamboo embroidery curtains. Due to the combination of painting and embroidery, bamboo embroidery curtains play the advantages of both skills and avoid their respective shortcomings. For example, in the panda and tiger pictures, the hair of the animals and the clothes of the characters are more lifelike and have a strong texture due to the needlework of Shu embroidery, while the faces are more vivid with the painting technique. In order to meet the needs of embroidery, the density of the bamboo curtain embryo warp used in bamboo embroidery curtains is much higher than that of bamboo painting curtains, so the price of bamboo embroidery curtains is much higher than that of bamboo painting curtains.

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