The picture shows the audience entering the exhibition venue for the works of artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Photo by Chen Xiaoxing
The 7th Cross-Strait Chinese Character Art Festival opened today in Guiyang Kong Academy . Nearly 100 artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait participated in the art festival.
This year's Art Festival lasts for 3 days. With the theme of "Context and Poetry Heart", it holds pen meetings, calligraphy and seal carving exhibitions, seminars, Confucius worship ceremony, , traditional culture lectures and other activities, showing the results of the research and creation of Chinese character art on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and promote Chinese character art to the whole society, so that contemporary Chinese people can appreciate and inherit the beauty of Chinese characters for more than 3,000 years since Yin and Shang oracle bone inscriptions , and understand the Chinese philosophy, literature, and aesthetic connotations carried by it. The exhibition of cross-strait calligraphy and seal carving works at the Art Festival brings together 200 works by artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The calligraphy is based on the Analects of Confucius, Yangming's theory and ancient poems, and seal carving is based on the stem and branch calendar as the main content. These works reflect the vitality of the inheritance and transformation of Chinese characters' art.
Cross-strait Chinese Character Art Festival was jointly initiated and held by the Chinese Academy of Arts and the Taiwan Chinese Culture Association in 2010. It has been an annual event and has not stopped. Yang Du, Secretary-General of the Taiwan Chinese Culture Association, said in an interview with reporters that Chinese characters are the most powerful bond between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the only hieroglyphic characters still in use in the world. They are the basis of Chinese art. Calligraphy and seal carving art developed from Chinese characters are symbols of Chinese civilization.
The Confucius Institute, the host of the Chinese Character Art Festival, is the " Cross-Strait Exchange Base ". Since its establishment in 2013, it has held more than 450 cultural public welfare lectures, and held folk cultural activities such as opening ceremony , adult ceremony, respect for the elderly, and the twenty-four solar terms. It has carried out six art trainings such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and rituals, and has played the two major functions of education and training, becoming a cultural landmark in Guizhou and a platform for cross-strait cultural exchanges and cooperation. (Reporter Chen Xiaoxing)
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