Artform that binds China and Vietnam gets Shanghai showing
By Wang Xin |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2025-12-08 19:35
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In Vietnam, New Year woodprint pictures usually retain numerous Chinese cultural elements while integrating with local culture and characteristics. They have gradually evolved into a distinct and representative art form, and were listed among Vietnam's national cultural heritage in 2013.
Tian Zhaoyuan, curator and professor at East China Normal University, said China's New Year paintings are a "visual epic" of the nation's agricultural civilization, while Vietnam's represent the overseas inheritance of such epics.
"They bear witness to the enduring cultural ties and Silk Road friendship between China and Vietnam," said Tian.
