At the beginning of Xin Chou in 2021, we opened the new year with a water printing plate exhibition with the theme of "Juchuan elegant collection". On the one hand, it has the beautiful meaning of leaving the old and welcoming the new, so as to bid farewell to the gray. It is a wonderful gift for artists to give a new year. On the other hand, watermark printmaking has a profound heritage in China, which is reflected in its extensive and vivid folk vitality and the profound connotation of literati charm. We hope to transform these two into the perfect interaction between artists and admirers in the contemporary era and spread this heritage In the spring of

when 2020 was raging, a series of watermark engraving activities could not be postponed. Under the circumstances that no entity exhibition could be held and face-to-face communication could not be conducted, we planned a cloud forum to discuss the past, present and future of watermark prints.

< p > the reason for holding such a series of activities is to judge the development of watermark printmaking: today's watermark printmaking has more artistic diversity and vitality than ever before. If we say that contemporary watermark printmaking has ushered in a historical opportunity and become a torrent of rivers in art, aren't we the "boaters" in the "rivers"? Riding the wind and waves is the highest tribute to the future of watermark printmaking