Long March Project – the Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Yanchuan Survey | Planning
The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Time: 2004
Yanchuan Survey | Preparation | Research, Mobilization, Organization
The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Time: Jan. 2 – Jun. 30, 2004
Yanchuan Survey | The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Time: June 30 to August 31, 2004
Yanchuan Survey | Archive | Samples from the Survey
The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Time: 2004
Artists:Xia Yang, Guilian Lu, Qirong Yang, Yulan Liu, Hui Yang, Xiuxiu Qian, Bianling Hao, Meimei Hao, Xiongyan Hu, Herong Liu, Fenglan lu, Guilian Gao, Ruihua Feng, Caixiang Miao, Zhenrong Liu, Fengmei Gao, Xiang He, Zhengmei Gao, etc.
Yanchuan Survey | Display
The Great Survey of Paper-cutting in Yanchuan County
Location: 25000 Cultural Transmission Center
Time: August 14, 2004
Yanchuan Education | Planning
Yanchuan County Middle & Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Time: 2006
Yanchuan Education | Yanchuan County Middle & Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Yanchuan County Middle & Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Time: 2006 – 2009
Location: Yanchuan County, Northern Shaanxi
Yanchuan Education | Archive | Paper-cuttings by Students
Yanchuan County Middle and Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Time: 2006-2007
Yanchuan Education | Display
Yanchuan County Middle & Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Time:Sep. 26th 2009
Location:Long March Space, Beijing (formerly known as 25000 Cultural Transmission Center)
Yanchuan Education | Planning
Yanchuan County Middle & Primary School Paper-cutting Art Curriculum
Time: 2006
The Great Survey — Yanchuan Primary School Papercutting Art Curriculum
Project Overview
Location
Yanchuan County is located to the northeast of Yan’an city. The county has jurisdiction over eight towns, nine townships and 346 administrative villages with a total population of 169,700 people of which 144,000 are rural agricultural workers; the count cover a total area of 1,941 km2. In terms of economic development, is designated as one of Western China’s poverty counties, but it has intactly preserved the original Yellow River ecological folk culture of the Chinese nation.
Yanchuan has a long history. The county was established in the third year of the Reign of Kaihuang during the Sui Dynasty over 1,400 years ago. At that time the county seat took its name from the ancient name of the river that flows through it: “Tu Yan Shui”. Yanchuan is the home of Fuxi, one of the legendary fathers of the Chinese nation. The S-shaped bend in the Yellow River in the county inspired Fuxi to invent the Eight Trigrams of Taoism and the theory of Yin and Yang, forming the distant basis for the Yellow River culture. There is evidence of human settlements and societies even further back, and for thousands of years the county was the site of ethnic intermingling and immense transformations, over time developing into the unique culture and historical style of the Loess Plateau. Cloth paste painting, papercutting and other folk-art traditions are among the most prominent forms of a Loess Plateau culture that is exceedingly rich and deep, which has led Yanchuan to be designated as “the hometown of modern national folk art” by the Ministry of Culture.
Based upon the results of the 2004 survey, the Long March Project will continue to promote Chinese folk art through the initiation of the Long March Project – Yanchuan County Primary School Papercutting Art Curriculum. If “The Great Survey of Papercuttings in Yanchuan County” is a large scale investigatory social project, then “The Yanchuan County Primary School Papercutting Art Curriculum” is a pilot art education project whose purpose is to research how ethnic culture and customs are transmitted through the generations, and how folk art can effectively return to people’s everyday lives. The education initiative is not simply about training to produce a specific papercutting pattern. Rather it is that these seemingly simple papercutting patterns contain ethnic cultural values. A myth, a story, they are all linked with Chinese traditional culture. This transmission is effected through a visual method (papercutting) and passed down to the next generation. This is an invaluable resource to the future development of Chinese culture. A concern for the art education of traditional art forms is particularly important in our commercialized and material society. Through the practice of papercuttings it is possible to teach the long history of Chinese aesthetics, as well as its ethical and social values.
Project Structure
Project consultant: Jin Zhilin Professor Central Academy of Fine Arts, researcher folk art
Project director: Lu Jie director Long March Project
Executive director: Xiao Xiong Artistic director Long March Project
Official Leader Group:
Director: Yan Chuanzhu Vice-mayor Yanchuan County
Vice-director: Xiao Xiong artist director Long March Project
Gao Hebin Yanchuan County Office Manager
Committee Members:
Zhang Zhenhong Chief Education Department, Yanchuan County
He Ping Chairman Yanchuan County Yellow River Cultural Development and Preservation Association
Yang Zhulin Deputy director, Education Bureau Yanchuan County
Liu Fuxiang Director, Youth Activity Center, Yanchuan County
Yang Guoqiang Director, Education Department, Yanchuan County
He Siming Principal, Yanchuan County Number Two Middle School
Bai Cuicui Principal, Yanchuan County Beiguan Elementary School
Guo Shengjun Principal , Central Middle School Tugangxiang Yanchuan County
Ma Yansheng Principal, Yongping Town Central Elementary School, Yanchuan County
Project office:
Manager: Yang Zulin
Deputy Manager: Liu Fuxiang
Project Advisory Board:
Qiao Xiaoguang Director, Immaterial Cultural Legacy Institute, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Dong Sanqiao Director, Immaterial Cultural Legacy Institute, Sha’anxi Province
Liu Pingan Dean, Lu Xun Art School, Yan’an University
Feng Yanming vice-Dean, Lu Xun Art School, Yan’an University
Guo Qingfeng Researcher, Local Culture Research Center, Xi’an Art Academy
Feng Shanyun Researcher, Yanchuan County Folk Art Research Center
Gao Fenglian Artist
Local Professional Team:
Liu Jieqiong, Liu Xiaojuan, Feng Ruimei, Guo Lingling, He Cailian, He Caihong, Feng Caiqin, He Xiuzhen, Guo Ruixian
Project Schools:
Yanchuan County Number Two Middle School, Yanchuan County Beiguan Elementary School, Central Middle School Tugangxiang Yanchuan County, Yongping Town Central Elementary School, Yanchuan County