Where are the main producing areas of New Year pictures?

1. Folk New Year pictures are widely circulated in China. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, workshops for engraving New Year pictures were almost all over the country. Judging from the collected works, except Heilongjiang, Jilin, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and other places, there used to be workshops for engraving New Year pictures.

2. In the long history, New Year pictures have gradually formed different artistic styles and obvious local characteristics, such as Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng, Henan, Taohuawu in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Yangjiabu in Weifang, Shandong, Gaomi in Sichuan, Mianzhu, Wuqiang in Hebei, Fengxiang in Shaanxi, Foshan in Guangdong, Pingyang in Linfen, Shanxi, Zhangzhou in Fujian, and beachhead woodblock New Year pictures in Shaoyang, Hunan, which have a long reputation and have their own merits.

3. The New Year picture is a kind of painting in China, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting", is a kind of folk art in China, and is also one of the common folk handicrafts. New Year pictures are unique to China, and they are also an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment and wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name New Year Pictures.

4. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole New Year picture is called "Gongjian" and the paper is called "Sancai". Many meticulous crafts are called "painting the palace tips" and "painting three talents". The colors of gold powder coating are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Tricks". Products before June are called "green edition", and products after July and August are called "autumn edition".