Where is the Puffy Ash New Year's Paintings

The origin of the ash New Year paintings is Gaomi City, Shandong Province.

Gaomi Pashmina New Year Painting, also known as "folk painting", Gaomi City, Shandong Province, traditional folk art, May 20, 2006, Gaomi Pashmina New Year Painting approved by the State Council included in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, becoming one of the national intangible cultural heritage.

The Gaomi ash painting originated in the early Ming Dynasty, and was created by a family surnamed Wang in Gongbamiao Village, North Township, Gaomi. Gaomi ash New Year's paintings are mostly painted on full-open paper, and are characterized by their large size. From the perspective of composition, they tend to adopt the technique of "simple rather than complicated", except for the flower screens and figure paintings, which pay attention to highlighting the tallness and fullness of the figures, and use less background or even omit the background, so as to let the figures take up all the space in the picture, and form a two-dimensional perspective planar composition, which is very eye-catching.

Historical origins of Gaomi Pasha New Year's Paintings:

Gaomi Pasha New Year's Paintings originated in the early Ming Dynasty. It is said to have been created by a family surnamed Wang in Gongbaomiao Village, North Township, Gaomi. This family migrated from abroad, forced to make a living, they copied some posters and temple murals stalls for sale, slowly mastered some of the skills, and continue to explore the willow branches available everywhere burned into a charcoal stick as a paintbrush, the pickle pimple engraved into a seal, stamping molds. Since then, with the taste of rural soil, with the traditional customs of farmers, with the magnificent color of folk art Gaomi ash New Year's paintings were born.

Qing dynasty Qianlong years, Gongbamiao village Wang began to accept apprentices to teach art, first Gongbamiao village Zhang's four sons as apprentices. Zhang's brothers learned to open their own workshop painting for sale, the subject matter has been innovative, expanding the influence of the ash New Year's paintings. At the end of the Qianlong period, some people from Gaomi Lijiazhuang, Zhaojiazhuang, and Dujiaguanzhuang came to Gongbaomiao to learn from the Zhang brothers, and they returned to the village and opened their own workshops to teach their apprentices. During the Jiaqing period, the Gaomi ash New Year's Eve painting began to use the new technology of painting and printing.

At that time, Hu San, who used to carve plates in the Yang Liuqing painting store in Tianjin, came to Gaomi Lijiazhuang and put himself under Hu Yuxian. He combined Yangliuqing woodblock print techniques into the production of ash-colored New Year's paintings, first engraved plates and printed lines, and then hand-painted the picture, so that each painting can be realized in a short period of time to achieve mass production, and improve efficiency. Because of the exponential growth in economic efficiency, many workshops have switched to painting this kind of New Year's paintings, which is called half-printing and half-painting.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Gaomi Puffy Gray New Year's Paintings