Woodboard new year pictures

The craft of wooden New Year pictures is similar everywhere. Basically, it is made of hard and delicate pear wood. After the jujube board is carved, it is painted with ink and printed on rice paper that is easy to absorb water. Water-based color pigments are also used to print multiple versions of color New Year pictures. There are usually five editions, most of which are Zhuxian Town New Year pictures, and nine editions have been printed. Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures only use five colors: red, yellow, green, blue and black. Yangliuqing New Year pictures are printed with block prints, and then filled with artificial colors to smudge; Sichuan Mianzhu woodblock New Year pictures are printed with lines first, and then filled with gold thread manually. Woodcut New Year pictures in southern Shanxi like to be accompanied by poems, paintings and calligraphy, and also have their own characteristics. Many woodcut New Year pictures also pay great attention to reflecting local customs, such as Taohuawu New Year pictures, with traditional themes such as "Wannian Bridge in Gusu" and "Mysterious Temple Fair". It has strong local characteristics and is deeply loved by the masses. The traditional woodblock New Year pictures have simple lines and bright colors, mainly red, large and green rhubarb, and the primary colors are the main ones, and the complex colors are seldom used, showing a lively scene. The content can be divided into two categories: festive and auspicious, avoiding evil and hating victory. Because woodblock New Year pictures are easy to print and cheap, this theme is deeply loved by people. Therefore, it was widely welcomed by the people of China until it became an indispensable part of folk festivals and weddings in China, and its universality was self-evident. The woodcut New Year pictures of Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng are the originator of China woodcut New Year pictures. It is mainly distributed in Kaifeng, Zhuxian Town and its surrounding areas, and the New Year pictures in Yangliuqing, Tianjin, Taohuawu, Suzhou and Weifang, Shandong are all influenced by it. It is characterized by exquisite color, rich and bright color, lasting fastness, strong contrast, rough Gu Zhuo, fullness and compactness, and strong versatility. Composition with traditional methods, the picture has its own theme and time, the object is obvious, and the characters in the scene are cleverly arranged, showing a uniform and symmetrical aesthetic feeling.