What are the four traditional New Year pictures in China?

Taohuawu, Tianjin Yangliuqing, Shandong Weifang and Sichuan Mianzhu are the four cradles of China folk woodcut 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. Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Pictures began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty. Taohuawu New Year pictures mainly include door paintings, traditional Chinese paintings and screen strips, among which door paintings can be described as the complete works of door gods in past dynasties. Taohuawu New Year pictures are printed by block printing, with one version and one color. Exquisite craftsmanship. A painting has to be overprinted four or five times to a dozen times, and some of them have to go through the processes of "painting gold", "sweeping silver" and "dusting". In terms of color, there are pink, red, blue, purple, green, light ink, lemon yellow and other colors. In terms of artistic style, Taohuawu New Year pictures are rich in composition, colorful, decorative and full of rich life flavor. It has simple, naive, concise and rich folk art characteristics in characterization, knife cutting and color setting, so it has been sold well at home and abroad for hundreds of years and has been collected by museums and art galleries in many European countries.

Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Pictures began in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty and were popular in the Yongzheng, Qianlong and Guangxu periods of the Qing Dynasty. New Year pictures are mainly traditional operas, beautiful women and fat dolls. In terms of artistic style, Yangliuqing New Year pictures are full of composition, neat lines and bright colors, and most of them are stained with gold in important parts such as the head and face of the characters, which is unique. Yangjiabu New Year pictures in Weifang, Shandong Province have a history of more than 500 years, which flourished in the Qing Dynasty and became popular in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Its style reuses primary colors, with rich imagination, rough lines and strong contrast. Mianzhu New Year Pictures in Sichuan are famous for their exquisite carving art and high artistic taste. Its forms are diverse, such as door painting, fighting array, painting bar and so on. The shape is concise and lively, pleasing to the eye.