Mingjue iron painting forging skills, a traditional skills project in the first batch of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage. According to the "Lishui County Chronicles", Tang Peng, whose courtesy name is Tianchi, was born in Mingjue, Lishui County, Nanjing City, between the Shunzhi and Kangxi periods of the Qing Dynasty. He is the founder of Chinese iron painting art, which has a history of nearly 400 years. In his early years, Tang Peng lived next to Xiao Chimu (whose courtesy name is Yuncong), a famous painter in the early Qing Dynasty, in his iron shop in Wuhu. As a teenager, Tang Peng was very interested in painting. He often watched Xiao Chimu paint after work, and practiced painting with bamboo sticks on the beach by the river at night. Xiao Chimu thought that Tang Peng was just a blacksmith and didn't understand painting at all. Tang Peng was very angry and determined to paint with iron. He imitated Xiao Chimu's painting strokes and forged an iron painting of the "Four Gentlemen" (i.e. plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum). From then on, Tang Peng and Xiao Chimu became close friends, and they often cooperated and communicated with each other. Tang Peng's blacksmith shop also became an iron painting shop. The iron paintings created by Tang Peng use metal materials such as low-carbon steel, absorb the craft features of traditional Chinese painting and gold and silver jewelry, paper-cutting, sculpture, etc., use the techniques of black and white contrast, and the combination of virtual and real, use iron as ink, and hammers instead of pens. They are purely hand-forged and have a strong sense of three-dimensionality. They are unique in their upright, bold, vigorous, powerful, simple and elegant style, and can be called "a unique Chinese masterpiece." Today's iron paintings can be divided into four categories: one is small scenes, such as flowers, trees, animals, people, etc. The painting is about one foot in diameter, embedded in a mahogany frame, with plain silk as the background, and hung on the white wall. The black and white contrast is particularly eye-catching; the second is iron painting (flower) lamps, which are made of 4-6 exquisite iron paintings (flowers) and can be hung or added with lamp posts to stand in the corners of the wall. They can be moved at any time, beautiful and practical; the third is iron painting screens, which have four, six, and eight panels, buckled and connected, foldable and movable, and some large landscape iron painting screens are as wide as twelve panels; the fourth is iron characters, which are forged into characters by the four styles of regular, cursive, seal, and official scripts of ancient and contemporary famous calligraphers. Since Mingjueji Town, Lishui County, was once under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang District and bordered Wuhu District, the iron couplet "Sunny window flowing bamboo dew, night rain growing orchid buds" collected by Anhui Provincial Museum was made by Tang Peng in the 26th year of Kangxi (1687). The large iron landscape painting "Smoke over the Stream and Mountains" collected by Zhenjiang Museum is a rare treasure. After generations of innovation and development by iron craftsmen, the traditional handmade iron painting production has added more than a dozen procedures such as painting, copying, cutting, forging, welding, washing, rust removal, phosphating, painting, spraying, cardboard and decoration. The pictures are more beautiful, the preservation time is longer, and the skills are becoming more mature. It has become a shining pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture. The huge ground-standing iron painting "Welcoming Pine" in the reception hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing is famous in the world because national leaders such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai often took photos with foreign guests in front of it. In order to show the profound charm of Chinese culture, handmade iron paintings are listed as important gifts for the Chinese government to exhibit and give to foreign countries. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)