Shanghai lantern art is inherited from the ancient times. It is an excellent skill. Not only the material is in a continuously updated: hemp, yarn, silk, glass and so on, but also has more varieties, such as light, regimes, palace lantern, three-dimensional animal light four categories. He Kenming colored lantern(何克明灯彩艺术) is also called "Shanghai three-dimensional animal colored lantern", which is a set of ornamental, artistic, ornamental as a whole, is the most essence part of Shanghai folk arts. It is an important part of Shanghai culture.
He Keming was influenced by the ancient lantern since childhood. When he was 13-year-old, he began his artistic career of rolled lantern. He frequented by wandering around in the city of lights, carefully try to figure out the essence of the north and south. Without a teacher, but he also good at ingenuity, gradually break the popular lantern shape and absorb the Western sculpture. With a lead wire crumpled wrapping paper instead of the traditional bamboo skin that makes rolled lantern has accurate bone structure, exquisite detail, vivid and expressive gesture. He chose those themes which are very popular with folk masses, full of spirituality and auspicious animal as a symbol of colored lantern. His works contain connotation of folk tales, embodies the Chinese long history with rich cultural heritage and mellow.
The founder of "He Keming corlored Lantern" was born in Shanghai, living in Luwan. The long and profound cultural heritage of Luwan created a generation of Lantern artists. Luwan district is located south of the center of Shanghai, the east of Huangpu District; south of the Huangpu River to Pudong New Area Lupu Bridge. It is also one of the 2010 World Expo will host exhibition space, covers an area of 8.02 square kilometers. The Huangpu River which is called the mother river of Shanghai raised a generation of folk artists and it also allows the excellent traditional culture and folk crafts Jiangnan flows into Shanghai. At the same time, Shanghai as China's first exchange with overseas cities, folk art in Shanghai also absorb a number of Shanghai specialties.
Shanghai Lantern maestro He Keming is the founder of three-dimensional animal Lantern. He ha engaged in arts for eighty years, and "three-dimensional animal light" has become the representative of Shanghai native Lantern art. With the cultural exchange, the impact of He Keming colored lantern art is widely known abroad.
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