Harvest in the stalk painting

Xinhua News Agency, Jinan, July 2nd.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Zhi

Right now, the summer harvest of Shandong Province, the second largest wheat producing area in China, has ended. For wheat straw for making wheat stalks.

In the "Cao Yizhai" studio in Sunzhuang Village, Shipu Town, Gaotang County, farmers "artists" are selecting wheat stalks used to make wheat straw paintings. (Photo confession in the respondent)

"The wheat stalks have just been long, bright, thin, and soft, which is very suitable for large wheat straw. My family has more than 6 acres of wheat. The average yield of this year has reached 1200 pounds, which is nearly 200 pounds per mu last year. The income has been increased by more than 300 yuan. I can sell more than 2,000 yuan for more than 2,000 yuan, which is made of "Three Niu Maps" made of wheat stalks in my own place. It is really a bumper harvest. "Sun Yurong, 60, laughed.

The reporter saw that all the "Three Bull Pictures" made of wheat stalks with agricultural waste were golden, high in horns, powerful cattle and hoofs.

Gaotang is a big grain county. Due to the influence of the flood of last year, the county's winter wheat was broadcast late, and the seedlings were weak as a whole. Du Lizhi, a senior agronomist at the Gaotang County Agricultural and Rural Bureau, said that the local science and technology active action was carried out to carry out key technical guidance for farmers' fertilization and suppression to promote the weakness and strength of the weak. This year, the county harvested 784,000 acres of wheat, with an average yield of 1058.5 catties, an average yield of 25.5 catties over the previous year. The total wheat output reached 415,000 tons, achieving a large harvest of summer food.

"In the eyes of ordinary people, there is no use of wheat stalks, and through the hands of our farmers 'painters', they have been made into a variety of wheat straw paintings, which have become the 'golden wheat ears' that can have money." Gao Tang County Li Zhihai, an intangible cultural heritage of wheat straw paintings.

The production process of the wheat straw painting of the ancestors has been retained as a self -entertainment technology in the past. Since 2018, the Gao Tang County Literary Federation and the Tanupu Town Government have supported him to become the leader of rural culture, promoted the industrialization of wheat stalk painting, and gradually created a "fingertip economy" that farmers did not leave home.

Thirty milespu town arranged two studios for Li Zhihai in Sunzhuang Village, and taught the craftsmanship of wheat straw painting to the villagers for free.

The villagers of Sunzhuang Village are making wheat straw paintings according to 12 processes including materials selection, shear, soaking, and opening. (Photo confession in the respondent)

"Mai straw paintings are integrated into Chinese painting, prints, and pyrographs, paper -cutting and other art forms. If you want to make a complete work, you need to go through 12 processes such as materials selection, cutting section, soaking, cutting, and equalizing." Li Zhihai said Essence

Choosing wheat straw is the most critical first process. Every year, the "artist" of the farmers of Sunzhuang Village will carefully select the stalks that have been made in the Mai Di to reserve the creative amount of creative use for one year.

The reporter saw that the selected wheat straw was cut open by one, and then scraped the crickets on the wheat straw with a scraper to make it smooth and thick. After the scraping, the straw still maintains the original curling degree, and then ironed and flattened with an iron to paste and use it.

"Learn a craft, do not collect tuition, and give work money." 60 -year -old villager Qu Guangqin has followed Li Zhihai to learn wheat straw paintings since last year. Now he can create works such as peony and eagles according to the pattern. "When I was leisurely, I cut straw here and pasted paintings. I can earn more than 50 yuan a day. How good is my mood?"

Flowers, birds, insects, and characters are the creative themes of wheat straw paintings. "Now, the price of slightly wheat straw paintings is generally around 100 yuan, and the median is about 1,000 yuan. The most expensive large work price is 3,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan. With the help The order of stalk painting has been ranked at the end of the year. "Li Zhihai said.

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