The Second Seminar on the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting Held

On the morning of October 9, the “2021 (2nd) Seminar on the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting” was held in the hall of Tieshan Hotel in the city to summarize the achievements made in the protection and development of Wuhu iron painting in the past five years since the issue of the Regulations on the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting, analyze the existing problems and difficulties, and clarify the overall ideas for the protection, preservation, innovation and development of Wuhu iron painting in the next few years.

The seminar was hosted by the Wuhu Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and Wuhu Cultural Centre (Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) and organized by Wuhu Iron Painting Association. Nearly 100 representatives in the city, including well-known painters, experts and scholars in culture and history and intangible cultural heritage, heads of related companies in this industry, inheritors of forging skills, and iron painting craftsmen attended the seminar. The representatives discussed how to further implement the Regulations on the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting and how to make it well-known in the Yangtze River Delta, the country, and the whole world. In the seminar, the atmosphere was very active. The experts called for strengthening the protection of Wuhu iron painting forging skills, carrying out researches on the art, culture and history of the painting, so that the traditional forging skills can be passed on in a living status.

It is learned that in the five years since the issue of the Regulations on the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting, Wuhu Municipal Finance Bureau has set up a “Special Fund for the Protection and Development of Wuhu Iron Painting” with an annual amount of 500,000 yuan.

Translated by Wang Mengxiao from Foreign Affairs Office of Wuhu Municipal People’s Government