Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings are a spiritual right

Yangliuqing New Year Painting is a special and meaningful form of Chinese folk art.

It not only reflects positively the history, folklore and life of the Chinese society; it also truly reflects the simple life and rich life emotions and aspirations of the Chinese folk working people. Yangliuqing New Year Paintings originated from the farming culture, which carries forward the traditional concept of Chinese people's heart, and the eternal theme of Chinese farming culture is to work hard and pray for a good harvest.

Agricultural culture is one of the most influential cultures to mankind, and it is also one of the earliest cultures in the world. Traditional Chinese farming culture is a collection of many cultures unique to China, in which production, life, customs, religion, rituals, and so on, can be reflected, so that these cultures are brought together into one. It is a civilized form of traditional Chinese culture and the most widely existed cultural type in China, and at the same time, it had a great influence and reference on the painting style of ancient China. New Year's paintings also have its unique artistic characteristics, it is a kind of pro-people's art works, not only is a colorful style in the New Year's festivals, at the same time, the New Year's paintings are very good to carry the people's good wishes for life.

I. The influence of farming culture on Chinese traditional painting

During the traditional farming civilization in China, people were mainly engaged in agriculture and farming, followed by nomadic herding and fishing and hunting. Then as people explored the sky and seasonal changes. More and more colorful lifestyles emerged. It is this colorful way of life that constitutes the main direction and content of the development of Chinese painting. Therefore, we can see the main characteristics and melodies of Chinese painting at that time from the accumulation of farming culture. The reason why the traditional Chinese painting style has a close connection with the traditional Chinese farming culture is that it is in the same lineage with the traditional Chinese culture.

The diverse forms and rich connotations of Chinese farming culture, continued and developed under the influence of traditional Chinese philosophical culture, provide an inexhaustible treasure for the art of painting, and its profound imagery, which stores valuable painting emotions, is the most original source of our ancient nation's creative art, and is the core of the art of Chinese painting. Better analyzing and interpreting the meaning of farming culture plays an important role in the creation and style of paintings. The expression of characters and living conditions in the creation of paintings also needs to be analyzed through the main features of the national culture.

The artistic value of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings--"Spirit"

(1) The Origin of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings

The origin of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings has been discussed by many people. The origin of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings has been discussed in many specialized books in different versions. Through the relevant books, only from the dozens of professional books in the actual time can be seen in the origin of the earliest dynasty to the latest dynasty counted on the difference of nearly 1600 years. This error should be caused by the Chinese New Year paintings and Yangliuqing New Year paintings mixed together. Yangliuqing New Year paintings should have originated in the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, while Chinese New Year paintings originated from ancient religions, at least dating back to the Yin Shang Dynasty. There are differences and connections between them. It can be said that Chinese New Year paintings are the root of Yangliuqing New Year paintings, and it can also be said that the history of Yangliuqing New Year paintings is derived from Chinese New Year paintings. In a word, Yangliuqing New Year Painting is a new type of painting that emerged at a time when traditional painting in China was flourishing and figure painting was declining. It is an important part of our traditional folk art.

(2) The "Development" of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings

The development of the art of New Year Paintings can be said to have been a bumpy road, and traditional New Year Paintings have often been depreciated, which has been a long-standing reality. As early as the Song Dynasty, when the art of New Year's Paintings was first formed, there was a huge disparity between the status of the highly publicized literati painters and the creators of these folk arts from humble beginnings. The lack of attention to these folk cultures has also resulted in the lack of information and research chapters on these folk arts and cultures in the present-day treatises on Chinese art history at home and abroad. In the course of the development of the art of New Year's Paintings, although it was disliked by the feudal literati, it won the love of millions of people, so that it has not yet died out, and has become a necessity in the life of the general public.

Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings pay attention to its realism, the pursuit of the art of New Year's Paintings has always been rooted in the urban and rural masses of the people, in the creation of the content and form of New Year's Paintings in the life of the people to dig up its rich materials and subjects, so that through its own unique form of expression of the people's joy, anger, sadness and happiness. This also makes the general public gradually feel good about Yang Liuqing New Year Paintings, and thus like Yang Liuqing New Year Paintings, and further consciously accept the cultivation of the traditional national cultural connotation in Yang Liuqing New Year Paintings. Yangliuqing New Year Paintings not only inherited and vast traditional folk paintings, but also formed a unique artistic characteristics suitable for their own survival, combined with traditional Chinese culture. The reason why Yangliuqing New Year Paintings have been able to endure is mainly because the art of New Year Paintings adheres to the fine tradition of combining the national culture of the Chinese nation (such as absorption, literature, music, art, etc.) with the people's life in the pursuit of creativity, and this form also endows the simple and unobtrusive Yangliuqing New Year Paintings with its unique charms and unparalleled cultural and artistic infectious power.

Third, the traditional farming culture of Yangliuqing New Year paintings thinking - "characteristics"

China's traditional farming culture refers to a kind of customs and culture formed in the long-term agricultural production, centering on agricultural production and farmers' own entertainment. Its constituent bodies include language, drama, folk songs, customs and all kinds of rituals, etc. It is the most widely existent type of culture in China.

(1) "Thinking" about the subject matter

From the point of view of the subject matter, the Yangliuqing New Year Paintings mainly depict and reflect the things or people that are related to the society as a whole. Some of them depict people living and working in peace and happiness, reflecting a love for the people's feelings; depicting the life of the people longing for the prosperity of their children and grandchildren, rich and peaceful dolls paintings, full of rich traditional life, such as the "rich life of the three more", "the five sons of the Lotus," and so on, such as the depiction of agricultural production of the "busy crops", "harvest," a variety of images of the farmers toiling, longing for a good harvest The movie is a great example of how farmers work hard and yearn for a good harvest. All the farmers heard and witnessed the customs of life, friendly and real. These paintings add a unique luster to the joyful time of the New Year Festival for the people who work hard all year round for a living. There are also some festival-related New Year paintings, such as "Rui Xue Feng Nian" and "He Jia Jie Joy", which vividly show the customs and weather of Chinese folk seasons and express the infinite spiritual hopes of the grassroots. In addition, Yangliuqing New Year paintings involve a large number of subjects mostly for the common people, stories and dramas, four seasons, historical figures, auspicious events, as well as familiar plots and images, all reflecting the real life of the people in the cultivation of farming culture and life, such as "Stealing the Immortal Herb", "The Immortal Pairing", and so on.

Through the effect and emotion of the subject matter and the content of the New Year paintings, the art of New Year paintings attaches great importance to the traditional cultural colors. Its art is easy to understand and expressive, and is familiar and acceptable to the people in their simple and plain farming life. Because of this, the people often find their own real life reproduction in these themes and contents, see their own position in the society and the reality of life, and then like it more, accept it, and pay attention to it. They are more accustomed to using Yangliuqing New Year paintings as the necessary spiritual food in their lives. The theme of these paintings is to praise the people's society and the harmony of good family relations.　(B) The "thinking" of modeling

Yangliuqing New Year Paintings mainly portray characters as the main content, and the proportion of others is not much, and the landscape, animals and so on are also in a secondary position in the paintings, and Yangliuqing New Year Paintings focuses on the expression of real-life characters. Therefore, the modeling form of the picture mainly refers to the characters. When the dolls with special features are painted, they usually have short arms and legs, small noses and big eyes, and fat necks, etc. The main purpose is to show the beauty of life and the innocence of children. These shapes are not only unique to Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, but most importantly, they contain people's aesthetic ideals and a reflection of the culture of the time.

(3) The "Thinking" of Color

The form and characteristics of the color of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings are also different from those of other paintings. The main color used is the primary color, which advocates the use of real colors to reflect the real life of the people under the real farming. Through this direct expression, the picture contrasts sharply and strongly, highlighting the characteristics of exaggeration and generalization.

The colors of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings are mainly absorbed from the traditional folk art which prefers primary colors and fresh colors. Thus forming its own distinctive style, the effect presented by the picture of the New Year's paintings, generally seems to be with the traditional Chinese New Year period of joy, the people's life in the happiness of the appropriate, red and warm, lively and solemn fun, mainly to follow the New Year's paintings should be combined with the life, in order to the direction of the people's satisfaction. Red is a symbol of joy and good luck since ancient times, and most of the Yangliuqing New Year paintings use red and warm colors as the main tone, and slowly developed to join many colors, but the most used are still red, yellow, blue, black and other main colors. The colors in the paintings also follow the Chinese folk style of color study, such as "red by yellow, bright, green, pink, green, fine character, red is not purple, purple is afraid of yellow, yellow likes green, green loves red" and so on. These unique color combinations show a strong subjective imagery, truly reflecting the life of the Chinese people under the culture of the time in all its forms, with a strong beautiful and romantic atmosphere.

All in all, the whole idea, theme, shape, color and other factors of Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings are directly connected with folk customs, life and production, and can be said to be closely related. The original is the New Year's posting and publicity to add a festive atmosphere of the New Year's decoration, are rooted in the masses and the people, the whole picture has a distinctive folk culture and art characteristics and national style, the joy of life.

Conclusion: Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, as a unique folk art, is the carrier of the whole history and culture and heritage inheritor. It is an important means of cultural dissemination and an important way of expression during the period of Chinese agrarian culture, which fully expresses the national spirit, national culture and national emotion, and also shows but the wisdom and talent of the Chinese nation. Until now, Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings are also one of the brightest pearls in the treasure house of traditional Chinese folk art, illuminating the most simple, simple and direct happiness and life of the Chinese nation.