The leaf vein painting in Chongqing

Do you know about the Traditional Chinese Painting? When the foreigners go to China at the first time (D3 Gold), they always buy the Traditional Chinese Painting as the souvenir to send to their family or friends. In recent years, a new kind of painting has been appeared in Chongqing, China. Maybe you will ask me why it only can be created in Chongqing – the West city of China, because this kind of painting is painted on the leaf – the real life from the Banyan tree, and the Banyan tree is the city tree of Chongqing, so it is at everywhere in Chongqing and the painters will have enough leaves to paint. When I tell it to some foreigners, they are all surprised that how can paint pictures on the leaf. Well, the inventor of this painting tells me the process of the painting: they pick up the leaves from the Banyan tree, and then put it into the clean waters for about one to two weeks, after that, they use the small brushes to take out the mesophyll of the leaves, left the veins. At last, they will spread wax on the back of the leaves. When they finish all these steps, they begin to paint, they paint flowers, birds, landscapes, old houses of Chongqing, and the three gorges. Most of the foreigners like the three gorges, because they do not go to the three gorges or they just come back from the three gorges, so they want it to be as the souvenir.