How is the calendar developing?

China calendar was born in the 1940s. After the founding of New China, with the development of color printing technology, calendars also developed. In the early days of the founding of New China, most news publishing units such as People's Publishing House and People's China Publishing House regarded "calendar" as a kind of publicity materials. At that time, the texts were in Chinese and English, and some were all in foreign languages. These pictures include photos of construction achievements, scenery of the motherland, ancient landscape paintings and movie stills. This information is published externally and rarely published internally. At that time, New Year pictures were distributed internally.

The emergence of fresh blood calendar has injected "fresh blood" into the calendar. China's three painting themes (flower and bird painting, figure painting and landscape painting) have also become the main themes of the calendar. Such as Selected Flowers and Birds Painting in China, Pictures of Ladies in Past Dynasties, Selected Ancient Landscape Paintings in the Forbidden City, etc. Taking "Selected Flowers and Birds Paintings in Past Dynasties in China" as an example, five flower and bird techniques, such as meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and ink painting, were selected from the works of Li Kui in Southern Song Dynasty, Lv Ji, a famous flower and bird scholar in Ming Dynasty and Ren Yi, a representative figure of "maritime painting school" in Qing Dynasty. China's picture albums from ancient times to modern times are another highlight of the calendar theme, such as Ming Sijia's Six Qing Dynasties, Four Wu Men's Five Heroes, and Yangzhou Eight Weird Pictures of Yangzhou School. Masterpieces of contemporary famous painters and calendars with the color of the Cultural Revolution are the highlights, such as Dance by Lin Fengmian, Three Springs of Taihu Lake by Song Qian, Su Shi by Liu Danzhai and the new look of Liangshan in The Barefoot Doctor is Good.