What are the traditional festivals in China? What patterns are there in the New Year pictures?

The traditional festivals in China in the past dynasties mainly include: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, George's Day, July 15th, and Mid-Autumn Festival? Laba Festival and Winter Solstice Festival are on the eighth day of December.

In China, the so-called New Year pictures are printed materials related to the customs of the New Year. It is a unique folk craft during the New Year. At present, New Year pictures, as a unique folk art, have entered the art hall, and old New Year pictures have become the collections that people are scrambling to collect. Its origin, like Spring Festival couplets, is related to the ancient peach symbol.

The types of New Year pictures can be divided into printmaking, paper engraving, paper painting, offset printing and plastic printing. Prints are made by rubbing lines and patterns such as woodcuts and stone carvings, and then pressing colors on the screen. Most New Year pictures are based on this. Representative New Year pictures are Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Yangjiabu in wei county, Shandong, Zhuxian Town in Henan, Taohuawu in Suzhou and Foshan Town in Guangdong. Their characteristics vary from place to place, but their colors are lively and bold, but their meanings are auspicious. Paper engraving is to carve patterns on paper with a carving knife, and the design of the picture is very clever. The exquisiteness of the sculptor can convey a very vivid gesture. The content of paper painting New Year pictures is mainly idols. God Rabbit, Lei Yu, Zhong Kui, God of Wealth, God bless the people, etc. Are very popular themes.

Folk New Year pictures are a major category of folk art in China. From the early nature, worship and belief in gods, they gradually developed into festival activities to exorcise evil spirits, pray for disaster relief, celebrate happiness and decorate and beautify the environment, expressing people's thoughts and feelings and yearning for a better life. Folk New Year pictures have a long history, many producing areas, are very popular and popular, have a large number of readers and have had a very prosperous development. No matter the theme, carving technique or artistic style, it has its own distinctive characteristics. It not only has a far-reaching influence on other categories of folk art, but also blends with other paintings to become a mature painting with the characteristics of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.

As a unique art category in China, New Year pictures have a long history and a wide influence. In the past, the main producing area and market of New Year pictures were in rural areas, so many artists who made New Year pictures were mostly farmers living in villages and towns. They reflected their beautiful ideal wishes, colorful life characteristics and artistic appreciation interest in New Year pictures, which played a subtle aesthetic education role for the broad masses of the people. Therefore, China folk woodblock New Year pictures are farmers' art, no matter from the production object or artistic function. It is an art with a wide range of national characteristics, which can be described as the main category of folk art. With the development of modern society, New Year pictures have gradually evolved from being used to welcome blessings, evil spirits and ghosts into gifts and art collections, and the drawing process of New Year pictures has also changed from simple overprint to drawing methods that draw lessons from Chinese painting techniques.

Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Weifang in Shandong and Mianzhu in Sichuan are four famous producing areas of folk woodblock New Year pictures. Woodblock New Year pictures in Mianzhu, Sichuan, Taohuawu, Jiangsu, Yangliuqing, Tianjin and Yangjiabu, Weifang, Shandong have a long history and are known as the "Four Great New Year Pictures" in China.