Paintings of Terror - Chapter 312

In an ancient city like K City, it is indeed very suitable for holding traditional Chinese New Year activities.

The streets and alleys of the city have been lit up with lights, a large collection of various New Year goods attracts the citizens who purchase the New Year goods, and almost everyone’s face is filled with the joy of abundance and reunion.

There are fewer and fewer guests in the hotel as the New Year approaches. Weidong suspects that only ten of them may be staying on New Year’s Eve.

In order to recharge for the New Year’s Day, everyone went to bed early on the night of New Year’s Eve. This is probably the most special New Year’s Eve that everyone has experienced in their lives.

Because they did not sleep well, many members were awakened by the sound of fireworks and firecrackers in the middle of the night. After waking up, it was difficult to fall asleep again. The joy of the world outside the window made people feel more desolate.

Half asleep and half awake like this, mixed with all night’s dreams.

The next day was the first day of the new year. Everyone got up before dawn. Shao Ling looked at the cold and lively Xiao Se outside the window, and muttered to himself: “If you go back to your hometown for the New Year, it’s time to wake up to celebrate the New Year. “

Wei Dong was a little emotional on the side, but he patted Shao Ling on the shoulder: “Let’s eat something, Ke Er has cooked quick-frozen dumplings. The restaurant in the hotel is closed today, so we can only ask ourselves.”

“For the New Year in the North, it is time to eat dumplings on the morning of New Year’s Day.” Qin Ci had already cleaned up and was about to go to Ke Xun to eat dumplings.

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At 10:00 in the morning, the activities of the K City Niansu Art Museum officially began.

The “Jiu Exhibition Hall” that you are about to enter is located on the 3rd floor of the art gallery. It is opposite to the “Ba Exhibition Hall” where the couplet works are exhibited. What is about to be exhibited is a variety of Chinese New Year paintings.

Although the Niansu Art Museum did not publicly exhibit the contents in advance, Mu Yiran managed to find out about the “Jiu Exhibition Hall” a few days in advance, so everyone spent almost all of them studying the New Year paintings these days in City K.

“I’m particularly afraid that we will enter that classic New Year picture…” Weidong walked around the crowd in the lobby on the first floor and couldn’t believe how many visitors could gather on the first day of the new year.

“Is Brother Dong talking about the big fat doll that is connected end to end? Three heads and six arms are riding a carp and holding a lotus… the name is “The Year of the Lotus has Fish”.” Luo Ling said in a sharp voice, while carefully avoiding a large group of people. Children who are trying cotton tie-dye next to the booth.

The hall on the first floor of the art gallery was designed ingeniously in the form of a temple fair. Each booth displayed different works of the year-paper-cutting, tie-dyeing, cloth paste painting, kite, doughman…Each booth was packed. In addition to admiring and buying these years of popular art, people are also eager to try DIY, making this “temple fair” even more lively.

The ten members walked up the escalator to the third floor. They were relieved. They finally avoided the bustling crowd, and most of all, stayed away from the children.

The “Jiu Exhibition Hall” is right in front of you. The exhibition hall does not even have a gate, but a huge Shentu Yu Lei New Year picture stands at the door as a large screen.

Looking at the two majestic door gods on the New Year picture, the visitors can’t help but feel a sense of insignificance and security.

Ke Xun stood at the door and saw a lady in a wheelchair about to enter the exhibition hall, and hurriedly pushed the lady’s wheelchair away from the door.

The woman in the wheelchair did not show a panic expression, but looked at Ke Xun calmly, and politely asked the other party why she did this with her eyes—yes, just her eyes were very polite.

Ke Xun’s explanation: “We just came out of this exhibition hall. The decoration inside is very smelly, and the smell of formaldehyde is very choking. It is not suitable for visiting.”

“Thank you.” The lady nodded slightly.

“Is it convenient for you? Do you need me to push you to another exhibition hall?” Ke Xun asked.

“My wheelchair is fully functional, thank you.” After the lady greeted her, she turned the front of the car freely and went in another direction.

Ke Xun breathed a sigh of relief. If this lady with inconvenient legs enters the painting, the consequences will only be bad luck.

The comrades are familiar with Ke Xun’s behavior at this time, and they all stand at the door tacitly waiting for him at this moment.

Although everyone is curious about the paintings in the exhibition hall, they all know in their hearts that no matter how much preparation is made, it is impossible for the painter to guess the painting that is about to enter.

After 10 people stood in front of the exhibition hall, they walked in in twos and threes.

“Everyone must have seen it just now. The entrance of our exhibition hall is a huge door **** painting. The reason why such a painting is set up in a conspicuous place has a certain meaning.” A man’s voice sounded in the exhibition hall.

Wei Dong looked at the group of people gathered together in the exhibition hall: “I didn’t expect that there would be a group to visit… After entering so many back to the art gallery, it was the first time I saw the tour guide…”

“Brother Dong, that’s the narrator.” Gu Qingqing corrected it quietly.

Wei Dong looked at the middle-aged tour guide in the crowd. No, the middle-aged narrator, his mind flashed: “If we ask this person, will there be any special meaning of New Year paintings in this exhibition hall, will it help us? What?”

“It’s hard to say,” Shao Lingxian expressed pessimism. “When it comes to meaning, every painting has its meaning. The paintings we have experienced before, sometimes just look at the picture, and there is nothing very special about it.”

“That’s true,” Wei Dong gazes between the colorful New Year paintings, “We can’t directly ask others which author has passed away…”

“I think you don’t need to ask about this. The tags here have the names of the late authors in boxes.” Gu Qingqing said from the side.

Luo Wei looked at each picture one by one, probably a little surprised: “Why…how come all the boxes are…could it be that these authors are already…”

Shao Ling’s expression is still calm: “Those with square boxes are the names of the woodblock producers of the woodblock New Year pictures. Most of the New Year pictures displayed here have a certain history. Look at this picture of’Kirin Sending Children’, the time of plate making is In 1907, the master plate maker must have passed away long ago. There is also this “Lishi Immortal Official”. The plate was made in 1931. Even if the master plate maker is alive, he is still a centenarian.”

“Looking at it this way, these New Year paintings today are all antiques.” Luo Ling stared at each New Year painting. These auspicious and bright colors looked a little bit eccentric under the premise of “entering the painting”. “Zhong Kui watched the mirror” after a fright, he turned his gaze to his companions, “This exhibition hall is very large, and the group of people over there are more than 30 numbers. Maybe they will enter in a while.”

The large number of people in the exhibition hall proves that it is temporarily safe, and at least the painting incident will not happen immediately.

“You don’t need to look at the New Year paintings you have learned before, and focus on unfamiliar patterns.” Mu Yiran, who had not spoken, finally spoke.

Everyone understood in their hearts, so they looked for unfamiliar New Year paintings to study.

The exhibition hall was relatively quiet at this time, and the voice of the instructor was clearly transmitted to the ears of every participant: “This kind of large sheet with gold dust is called’Golden Palace Point’, and it is three-folded. It’s called’Jin Sancai’. The’Fu Lu Shou’ we see now belongs to’Jin Sancai’ by type.”

Soon a eager visitor asked: “Mr. Hua, you just mentioned the difference between the green version and the autumn version. I think this “Fu Lu Shou” is marked as the green version. You just mentioned the green version. It was a work before June. Is this because the New Year’s goods are very popular until the end of the year, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the work in autumn, so I printed it in advance in spring?”

The commentator smiled and said patiently: “You may be a little vague about the concept of New Year pictures, thinking that New Year pictures are only posted during the New Year, but it is not. According to the purpose of New Year pictures, New Year pictures can be divided into many categories. For example, happy painting, which is also a kind of New Year painting, is a festive painting used to congratulate the newlyweds; another example is fan painting, which is a supplementary product for the off-season of the New Year painting business in summer; and some ancient industry patriarchs, and The lamp screen paintings used during the Lantern Festival are all New Year paintings. Take the “Fu Lu Shou” in front of me for example. This is a birthday celebration painting, which is usually used to set off a festive atmosphere when the elderly celebrate their birthday.”

The visitors listened very carefully and felt that they had gained a lot of knowledge.

Luo Wei whispered: “How do I feel that I have checked the new year painting materials for a long time these days… What this teacher said is all new knowledge…”

Mu Yiran’s expression was slightly unnatural, and after looking at Ke Xun, the two slowly merged into the crowd.

“My brother and my brother-in-law are…” Luo Ling puzzled.

Gu Qingqing and Wu You didn’t quite understand it for a while, Qin Ci whispered to everyone: “Do you think that this commentator is a bit like a “chosen man”.”

Several people were shocked when they heard this. Although this guess is a bit cruel, Mr. Hua, who is responsible for the explanation, is really suitable for entering the paintings with New Year pictures as the theme…

“Thinking about it this way, this person’s surname is also quite weird, why is the surname painted?” Luo Ling really wanted to ask the other party if it was a single name.

Gu Qingqing couldn’t help correcting: “It should be Huashan’s Hua.”

In the rest of the time, everyone no longer analyzes the matter, but races against time to study the New Year pictures in the exhibition hall.

About half an hour later, the group of visitors slowly left. Mr. Hua, who was an instructor, walked to the door with everyone, and then there was no intention to move.

Ke Xun, who followed in the crowd, stopped: “You…Aren’t you in charge of this visiting team?”

Mr. Hua smiled: “I am in charge of this New Year painting exhibition hall. If you have any questions about the exhibits, please come and ask me.”

Ke Xun had to sigh sadly in his heart: It is simply a fate destined to heaven…

“It is a great blessing for the visitors today to be able to be the curator in person,” Mu Yiran said politely.

curator? Only then did Ke Xun look carefully at the name tag on Mr. Hua’s chest, which read: Hua Jiqiu, deputy director of the K Folklore Museum.

This person seems to be at most 40 years old, and he has actually taken the position of deputy curator. Judging from his explanation just now, he should have a wealth of folklore knowledge.

Hua Jiqiu smiled modestly: “You can come to our pavilion on the special festival of Lunar New Year’s Day, and Hua is deeply moved.”

Ke Xun looked at Hua Jiqiu with some pity, but given the content of the other party’s work today, I am afraid there is no reason to persuade him to leave the exhibition hall.

“Excuse me, Curator Hua, among the New Year pictures on display in this exhibition hall today, are there any New Year pictures with special significance?” Mu Yiran asked.

Hua Jiqiu thought for a while: “If you look at the price, there are indeed a few more precious ones. For example, the huge door **** picture at the door is a wooden plate made of two whole pieces of wood, and it has been used by a collector. They are collected at a high price; besides, the gold powder in the row of New Year paintings on the side of the pavilion, whether it is Gongjian or Sancai, uses real gold, so it is also expensive.”

“What if it is from historical significance or other angles?” Mu Yiran directly asked what he wanted to ask.

Hua Jiqiu fell into deep thought, and his eyes lighted slightly: “There is indeed a unique New Year picture, you follow me.”