从河而来丨走出国门的东明粮画：粒粒皆丰景

黄河在山东蜿蜒628公里，泥沙沉淀出沃土，也沉淀出一门以粮为墨、以籽为笔的独特技艺。东明粮画，根植于黄河冲积平原的农耕文明，至今已有1700余年历史。在菏泽市东明县，省级非遗代表性传承人韩国瑞从小在黄河边长大，围着姥爷姥娘看他们做粮画，耳濡目染，爱上了这门民间技艺。

粮画的技法有粘、贴、拼、接、雕等12种手法，须根据作画需要灵活运用。为了增强表现力，韩国瑞常去田间地头、河岸沟边收集野草种子。有一种叫“灯笼红”的古老红玉米，小时候姥爷姥娘用它做梅花，特别漂亮，但很罕见。韩国瑞为重现玉米梅花图案，与邻居一起反复种植三年，才攒够可持续使用的种子量。2018年，他骑三轮车去河堤采种子时因路滑掉进河里，右膝严重受伤，却丝毫没有影响他对粮画的热情。

如今，这门古老技艺正变成带动乡村就业的文化产业。2015年，韩国瑞创办山东粮画文化产业股份有限公司，采取“集中免费培训、散户加工回收、线上线下统一销售”的模式，相继开办12期公益培训班，培训残疾人和就业困难人员900多人，吸纳180余名学员从事粮画加工。2026年，他被评为全国乡村工匠。

这些年，韩国瑞带着粮画走过二十多个国家和地区。每到一个地方，人们看到粮画作品都非常惊叹。许多外国学生现场拜师，保持长期交流。他还编写创作课程、拍摄视频，希望用更快捷的方式让更多人了解粮画。

从黄河滩区到国际舞台，从一粒粮到一幅画，东明粮画描绘的不仅是五谷丰登的图景，更是一代代黄河儿女用双手和匠心，让古老技艺在新时代生根发芽、走出国门的故事。

The Yellow River winds 628 kilometers through Shandong, where its silt settles into fertile land — and into a unique folk art that uses grain as ink and seeds as brush. Dongming Grain Painting, rooted in the farming civilization of the Yellow River's alluvial plain, has a history of over 1,700 years. In Dongming County, Heze, Han Guorui, a provincial-level representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, grew up along the Yellow River. Watching his grandparents make grain paintings from an early age, he was immersed in the craft and came to love this folk art.

Grain painting employs twelve techniques, including gluing, pasting, piecing, joining, and carving, which must be applied flexibly according to the needs of each artwork. To enhance the expressive power of his work, Han Guorui often goes to fields, riverbanks, and ditches to collect wild grass seeds. There is an ancient variety of red corn called "lantern red" that his grandparents used to make plum blossoms when he was a child — exceptionally beautiful, but extremely rare. To recreate the corn-made plum blossom pattern, Han Guorui worked with his neighbors to plant the crop repeatedly for three years before accumulating enough seeds for sustainable use. In 2018, while riding a three-wheeled cart to the river embankment to gather seeds, he slipped on the wet road and fell into the river, seriously injuring his right knee — yet this did nothing to diminish his passion for grain painting.

Today, this ancient craft is being transformed into a cultural industry that drives rural employment. In 2015, Han Guorui founded Shandong Grain Painting Cultural Industry Co., Ltd., adopting a model of "free centralized training, household-based processing with buy-back, and unified online and offline sales." He has since run 12 public welfare training sessions, training more than 900 people with disabilities and those facing employment difficulties, and over 180 trainees have been engaged in grain painting production. In 2026, he was named a National Rural Craftsman.

Over the years, Han Guorui has taken grain painting to more than twenty countries and regions. Wherever he goes, people are amazed by the grain paintings they see. Many foreign students have apprenticed themselves to him on the spot, maintaining long-term exchanges. He has also created courses and filmed videos, hoping to introduce grain painting to more people through faster, more accessible means.

From the floodplains of the Yellow River to the international stage, from a single grain to a complete painting, Dongming grain painting depicts not only scenes of bumper harvests, but also the story of generations of Yellow River children who, with their hands and craftsmanship, have allowed this ancient art to take root and flourish in the new era—and to go global.

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策划：王静

统筹：丁厚勤 武玮佳 刘亚

文案、配音：武玮佳

剪辑：周溪琳

采访：周琛

拍摄：张勇 刘涛