China's New Year Pictures

Yang Jiaxuan New Year Pictures, Mianzhu New Year Pictures in Sichuan, Taohuawu in Jiangsu, and Yangliuqing in Tianjin have long enjoyed a good reputation and have been hailed as China's “four pictures of the New Year”.

A. Yang Jiaxuan woodblock New Year pictures

Yang Jiaxuan woodblock New Year pictures have a long history. They began in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. There have been more than 400 years of history. The Ming Dynasty was dominated by goddess, and the fine arts and craftsmanship were fine. In the early Qing Dynasty, there were beautiful dolls in the early years of the Qing dynasty. The style of the paintings was beautiful. In Qianlong, there was a dramatic increase in the number of new year pictures, and the style was smooth and rhythmical. The “black goods” new year pictures appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. The style of painting learns literati painting; after the founding of the country, the painter directed the creation of “New Year Paintings”, and the style is more important than realistic painting.

B. Mianzhu New Year Pictures

The Mianzhu New Year paintings have strong painting style, bright and vivid colors, smooth lines, and a wide variety of forms. Mianzhu New Year paintings are known for their painterly paintings, with strong ethnic characteristics and distinctive local features.

C. Taohuawu New Year

Taohuawu New Year Pictures is a special product of the Jiangnan Water Village. The pictures and texts are reconciled and it has a comic story style. It is not only colorful and eye-catching, but also exquisite in composition, prominent in image, clear in appearance, rich in decorativeness, and it is a unique style of elegant, neat and meticulous ethnic art.

D. Willow Youth Painting

Yangliu's youth paintings express the people's good feelings and desires through various means such as morality and realistic painting, and are particularly characterized by topics such as current events and historical stories that directly reflect each period.