Monibao Tangka Zhanlan Center

What travelers say:

Tangka is a unique painting art form in Tibetan culture. The "Encyclopedia" known as Tibetan is also a precious intangible cultural heritage in the folk art of the Chinese nation. The creative process of Mintangka is very particular, from the pre-painting ceremony, preparation of canvas, positioning of drafts, Coloring, hooking, painting gold, eye opening, to sewing and opening light, etc. have to go through more than a dozen processes. It takes more than ten days to draw a simple Tangka, and it takes several years to complex it. Xiahe County has built a small town of Labrangka, China, with its endowment of cultural resources. This is a display and experience base of Tangka art, inheritance and training base, creation and sales base. Tangka Town currently has dozens of enterprises and studios. The famous painters have Tangka National representative inheritors of Xigebu and Jiaobajiabu, and Tangka Craftsman Dan Zeng. Gayang Sonnan and others. Their Tangka works in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet and other Tibetan areas and developed cities in China have a large number of favorites and collectors. Tangka is generally divided into four kinds by hand-painted Tangka, namely: Hongtang, Black Tang, Jintang, Caitang. Black Tang is to be painted in red, on black canvas depicting Tangka, generally serious content; Red Tang also refers to the red background of Tangka; Color Tang is the white background depicting colored content, is the most common Tangka; Jin Tang is the most precious, usually after laying gold foil, with agate pen a line of depiction, the effort and skills are other Tangka can not compare.