What is the significance of a New Year's Eve doll holding a carp?

The small child holding a carp in a New Year's painting is called a New Year's painting doll.

Children holding carp in New Year's paintings are white and fat dolls, which means "prosperity of the people" and are favored by the people.

The symbol of this New Year's painting is "fish in the year", which is a homonym of "surplus in the year", and is one of the most representative languages of traditional Chinese prayers for good luck, which can be regarded as a traditional symbol of good luck if expressed in pictures.

Expanded Information:

Nianhua (New Year's Paintings) is a kind of Chinese paintings, which started in ancient times. "Door god painting", one of China's folk art, is also one of the common folk crafts. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it was formally called New Year's paintings, a genre of painting unique to China and a popular art form among the common people in rural China. Most of them are used for posting on New Year's Day to decorate the environment, and contain the meaning of blessing the New Year with good luck and celebration, hence the name.

The perfect combination of artistic style and cultural connotation of New Year's paintings expresses the people's aesthetic orientation and cultural prayers, which is an important reason why New Year's paintings are so deep-rooted and long-lasting.

Nianhua, as the folk's New Year's blessing, is full of festivities, therefore, most of the folk's New Year's paintings use bright and fiery colors such as big red and big yellow, pay attention to the expression of sentiment and modeling, and the characters are vivid, lovely and energetic. It reflects the wisdom of the people and forms a profound traditional culture.