Where does Yangliuqing New Year Pictures come from?

Yangliuqing New Year Pictures came into being in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. At that time, a folk artist who was good at carving took refuge in Yangliuqing Town, Tianjin, and carved some door gods and kitchen gods for sale on holidays. People in the town rushed to imitate them. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Grand Canal was dredged again, and the exquisite paper and watercolor in the south were transported to Yangliuqing, which greatly developed the painting art here.

Artistic features:

Yangliuqing New Year Pictures inherited the painting tradition of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, absorbed the woodcut prints, arts and crafts, opera stage and other forms of the Ming Dynasty, and adopted the method of combining woodcut overprint with hand painting to make the picture colorful, soft and colorful. Printed on rice paper and colored with traditional Chinese painting, the color will not fade with the years.

Yangliuqing New Year pictures not only have the charm of prints, but also have the color of painting strokes, which constitutes the artistic characteristics different from ordinary paintings and other New Year pictures.