What can art be in the Rural Revitalization of ethnic minority areas? Today, the Southwest Silk Road Art Fair, a series of cultural and art activities with the theme of "Bai People's heart to the party", opened in the ancient city of Dali, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, has made an exploration. Today coincides with the centennial of the founding of the party and the 65th anniversary of the founding of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. The Bai people who get rid of poverty and move towards common prosperity show their firm belief in pursuing a better life under the leadership of the party.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture has made great progress in political, economic and social undertakings. In the process of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture has built a world-class cultural and tourism industry around the "two mountain concept" of "green mountains and green waters are golden mountains and silver mountains", and embarked on a high-quality development road with green economy as the background. Many works in the Southwest Silk Road Art Fair were created based on this inspiration, reflecting strong regional cultural characteristics. Among them, many works are written by students from art colleges and universities in Southwest China. This is a group of young people with great artistic vitality, which reflects the high spirited spirit of young people in southwest minority areas.

In fact, Dali has made a series of explorations and achieved fruitful results in embedding art into the countryside. For example, in March this year, "meeting Dali" - Invitation Exhibition of works of famous Chinese and Western artists "was held in" Zhonghe academy "in Zhonghe natural village of Dali. Through the exhibition of Chinese and Western art works and the exchange and collision between eastern and Western artists, it opened people's understanding of culture and art and did something real for the development of rural culture. This is one of the important international cultural exchange activities held by Dali since the impact of the global epidemic, followed by the opening of Zhonghe International Art Fair and the meeting · pink four painting exhibition.

In the view of industry experts, it is very appropriate for Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture to hold the Silk Road Art Fair, because Dali is a historical and geographical gathering point of the silk road. For more than 2000 years, in the sound of camel bells and horse hoofs from caravans, food, spices, drugs and handicrafts from all over the world have spread to each other. The culture behind those imported products has added bricks and tiles to the courtyard of "Huaxia", which has finally made it what it looks like today. In a sense, the silk road is a big market; The market is the "living fossil" of the silk road. This provides rich materials for artistic creation. The practice of Art Fair also provides a good model for the Rural Revitalization in ethnic minority areas. It is a beneficial practice for colleges and universities to serve the society.

It is understood that in addition to the Southwest Silk Road Art Fair, a series of cultural and art activities with the theme of "Bai People's heart to the party" will also launch an invitation exhibition of works of famous artists of Southwest Silk Road, there are still many green mountains and rivers -- Xiayin community's green landscape painting entered Dali work exhibition, "mountain and sea and between mountains and seas" invited famous artists' sketching activities. The series of activities of Dali international ethnic Film Festival include "seminar on Western Yunnan Ethnic Minority Films and Dali international ethnic Film Festival" (cloud Seminar), "exhibition of works of famous collectors in Dali CPPCC calligraphy and painting room", etc.

Author: Xue Ren

Editor: Jiang Fang

Editor in charge: Li Ting

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