The significance of posting New Year pictures in the Spring Festival ~! ~ speed!

A picture that decorates the environment when celebrating the New Year. New Year pictures are a unique folk art form in China, which is adapted to people's custom activities to celebrate New Year's festivals. New Year pictures first appeared in Qin and Han Dynasties. At that time, Shen Tu, Lei Yu and Tiger were painted on the gate every New Year's Eve to drive away ghosts and ominous things. By the end of the Song Dynasty, the new year's goods markets in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) and Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) were all sold by door gods, Zhong Kui and other gods for the Chinese New Year. With the enrichment of New Year celebrations in urban and rural areas, New Year pictures have expanded to show beautiful women, dolls, customs, operas and other themes, and began to be printed by block printing, which accelerated its development and popularization. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the commercial handicraft industry developed further, and the color overprint technology in block printing also became mature, which greatly promoted the painting and sales of woodblock New Year pictures, and many places of origin of New Year pictures appeared one after another throughout the country. Among them, Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Pictures and Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Pictures have become two major centers in the north and south. Other New Year pictures printed in Zhuxian Town of Henan, Wuqiang of Hebei, wei county of Shandong, Linfen of Shanxi, Fengxiang of Hanzhong of Shaanxi, Liangping of Mianzhu of Sichuan, Shaoyang of Hunan, Foshan of Guangdong, Quanzhou of Zhangzhou of Fujian and Tainan of Taiwan Province. It is also famous in the world, forming different styles in art, and the theme content is more diverse, which has become the prosperity of woodblock New Year pictures. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to imperialist invasion and domestic reactionary rule, the countryside was impoverished, which affected the sales of woodblock New Year pictures and gradually declined. However, in Shanghai, Tianjin and other cities, there have been lithographs and offset New Year pictures, among which the most popular is the monthly brand New Year pictures. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, revolutionary artists who fought in Yan 'an and Taihang Mountain absorbed folk New Year pictures and created New Year pictures with new contents, which opened up a new road for New Year pictures. After 1949, New Year pictures continued to develop and became one of the paintings with a wide range of people.

New Year pictures are mainly used as holiday decorations, and their basic artistic features are festive content, rich romantic colors and corresponding lively forms. New Year pictures have a wide range of themes, including auspicious customs and life, news anecdotes, characters' stories in traditional Chinese operas and novels, ladies, babies, landscape flowers and birds, auspicious patterns and so on. And some new things are always reflected in New Year pictures quickly. In the 20th century, there also appeared satirical themes that criticized and exposed ugly behaviors and news New Year pictures depicting political events. Compared with other painting forms, New Year pictures emphasize decoration and entertainment. Woodblock New Year pictures adapt to the decoration needs of different regions and different environments, and create various styles such as door painting, calendar painting, nave, four screens, window tops, windows, kang wai, and Fuzi lights. When depicting beautiful images, New Year pictures often use homophonic means well known to the masses to express auspicious contents, such as pine, crane, peach and ganoderma lucidum symbolizing longevity, lotus and fish homophonic symbolizing the New Year, and peony in a bottle symbolizing peace and wealth. In the New Year pictures that show historical stories and traditional Chinese operas, there are also single pictures, group pictures, comic books (or screen pictures) and other styles. New Year pictures also emphasize handsome characters, auspicious titles, bright colors and pleasing to the eye, expressing the happy mood of the New Year. Most of the authors of New Year pictures are familiar with the life and hobbies of the masses, and their creations are close to the needs of the masses, so they are loved by the masses. Because New Year pictures are posted in thousands of households, it has a great influence on people's ideological sentiment and aesthetic taste.

In the development of New Year pictures, there are many forms because of the different production methods of painting and printing. Most of the early New Year pictures were drawn by hand. Gaomi County, Shandong Province still retains the dusty New Year pictures, that is, the draft is copied on paper with charcoal to speed up the drawing, and then the same draft can be drawn soon, which is more innovative. Woodblock New Year pictures began in the Song Dynasty at the latest. Early ink lines were carved out of wood blocks, and the color was set manually. Watermark color matching was popular after the Ming Dynasty, which was simple, strong and gorgeous. However, in some areas (such as Yangliuqing, Tianjin), after color mixing, New Year pictures are painted on people's clothes and other parts by hand, forming a delicate and delicate form of half-printing and half-painting. Lithographic and offset New Year pictures are produced with the development of modern printing technology, which can print pictures with complex colors. Among them, Cantonese New Year pictures are all the rage because they absorb the festive and prosperous characteristics of folk New Year pictures and use charcoal and watercolor to render them, forming a delicate and realistic effect. After 1949, the New Year pictures absorbed various forms such as Chinese painting, oil painting, gouache painting and color photography, showing a more colorful face.

With the change of people's concepts and customs, New Year pictures are also changing in content and form. The superstitious elements of exorcism and blessing have basically disappeared, and the connotation of wealth and auspiciousness is also changing. Excellent traditional themes are still popular, and works reflecting new characters and new features are constantly emerging, which are widely distributed in many varieties and quantities every year, contributing to enriching the people's spiritual life on New Year's Day.