What are the color characteristics of Zhuxian Town New Year pictures?

Zhuxian town woodblock New Year pictures pay great attention to color. They use minerals and plants as raw materials, grind pigments by hand, boil the grinded pigments with water, filter them and print them into watercolors. Printed New Year pictures are vivid in color, timeless, full and symmetrical in composition, simple and rough in lines, simple and exaggerated in modeling and unique in artistic style.

Zhuxian Town New Year pictures attach great importance to the traditional culture of China, and adopt the five-element color concept, with black, verdigris, Sophora yellow, scarlet, Zhang Dan and sunflower purple as the main colors, and hematoxylin, gold and silver as the auxiliary colors. The total number of colors used can reach more than ten.

Folks often say: "yellow sees purple, ugly dies." Rayna Sue's collocation in the New Year pictures of Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng is thick in color and strong in contrast. Not only not ugly, but also colorful and magnificent, which complements the happy atmosphere of the folk New Year.