Characteristics of Woodblock New Year Paintings

Traditional Han Chinese woodblock prints have simple lines, bright colors, mostly red, green and yellow, and mainly in primary colors, less use of compound colors, the performance of the scene is lively. The content can be celebratory and auspicious, avoiding evil aversion to win two categories. Because of the woodblock prints are convenient, inexpensive, and the subject matter is popular among the people. So widely welcomed by the Chinese people, until it became the Chinese folk festivals, for wedding celebrations essential content, its wide popularity is self-evident.

Kaifeng Zhuxian Town woodblock prints are the originator of Chinese woodblock prints. It is mainly distributed in Kaifeng, Zhuxianzhen and its surrounding areas, in addition to Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Taohuayu in Suzhou, Weifang in Shandong and other places of New Year's paintings are influenced by it. It is characterized by its exquisite use of colors, rich and vivid colors, long-lasting color, strong contrast, ancient and rough, full and compact, and strong generalization. The traditional technique of composition, the picture has a main and secondary, the object is obvious, the scene of the characters arranged skillfully, showing the beauty of the symmetry of the uniformity.