What is the development of calendars?

The China calendar was born in the 1940s. After the founding of New China, with the development of color printing technology, calendars have also been developed. In the early days of the founding of New China, most news publishing units such as People's Publishing House and People's China Publishing House used "calendar" as a kind of publicity materials. At that time, the texts were all in Chinese and English, and some were all in foreign languages. Pictures include photos of construction achievements, scenery of the motherland, ancient landscape paintings and movie stills. , external distribution, internal rarely distributed. At that time, New Year pictures were distributed internally.

The emergence of fresh blood calendar has injected "fresh blood" into the calendar. China's three major painting themes (flower and bird painting, figure painting and landscape painting) have also become the main theme of the calendar. Such as Selected Flowers and Birds Painting in China, Ladies of Past Dynasties, Selected Ancient Landscape Paintings in the Forbidden City, etc. Take "Selected Flowers and Birds Paintings in Past Dynasties in China" as an example, there are five flower-and-bird techniques, including meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and ink painting, which are selected from Li Di in Southern Song Dynasty, Lv Ji, a famous flower-and-bird scholar in Ming Dynasty, and Ren Yi, a representative figure of "maritime painting school" in Qing Dynasty. China's picture albums of painting schools from ancient times to the present are another aspect of the calendar theme, such as Ming Sijia's, the paintings of six Qing Dynasties in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the five-person paintings of the Four Wumen, and the Yangzhou Eight Eccentric Paintings of Yangzhou Painting School. The works of famous contemporary painters and calendars with the color of the Cultural Revolution are the highlights, such as Dance by Lin Fengmian, Three Springs in Taihu Lake by Song Qian, Su Shi by Liu Danzhai and A New Face in Barefoot Doctor Good Liangshan.