Artist Li Yulian from Zibo – a city which is located in East China's Shandong province – is an inheritor of woodblock printing, tasked with passing on the skill to new generations.
Li Yulian's creative work is done on trays and discarded door planks. [Photo/zbnews.net]
Woodblock printing, an intangible cultural heritage craft with a history stretching back over 2,000 years, refers to paintings on wooden materials such as wooden boards and inscribed wooden slips.
Li grew up in a village where artists good at wood carvings and paintings were everywhere and she gradually fell in love with the art.
Although Li didn't receive any formal training, she created a set of paintings on discarded door planks, which attracted a great deal of admiration and is known to all locally.
Under Li Yulian's paintbrush, ordinary gourds become works of art. [Photo/zbnews.net]
Li is an imaginative painter. She not only paints on door planks, but also on anything she finds, be it stones or gourds.
There are no discarded objects in her eyes. She always observes the world from an artistic perspective and immerses herself in creating.
