Recently, Chen Haoyun, a post-1980s inheritor of municipal-level intangible cultural heritage project from Fengqiu county of Xinxiang city, Central China’s Henan province, has broken a Guinness record for his world’s longest pyrograph work, One Hundred Tigers.
Apart from such Chinese painting techniques as outline drawing, pyrograph has a very strong three-dimensional effect with rich layers and hues, resembling brown sketch and lithograph. So pyrograph not only keeps the style of traditional Chinese painting, but also boosts the rigorous realism of Western paintings. With its unique artistic charm featuring elegance with classic simplicity, it gives people a memorable artistic enjoyment.
It is said that pyrograph stems from the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), but lacks of evidence and historical data. In local folklore, it was first seen in the Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C. to 8 A.D.) with a history of more than 2 thousand years. (Text: dahe.cn Photo provided to dahe.cn)
