Mianzhu New Year's Paintings: What is simple in color?

Mianzhu New Year Paintings are characterized by a combination of dark and light colors, and a mixture of dark and light colors.

Mianzhu New Year Paintings, also known as Mianzhu Woodblock Prints, is one of the folk woodblock prints in China, named after Mianzhu City in Sichuan Province, which is the hometown of bamboo paper, and is popular in Southwest China, and is known as the "Three Greats of Mianzhu" along with Jiannanchun Wine and Zhaopo Tea.

Mianzhu New Year's Paintings are mostly printed on woodblocks with outlines and then filled with colors. Mianzhu New Year's Paintings and Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, Shandong Weifang Yangjiabu Wooden New Year's Paintings, Suzhou Peach Blossom Wooden New Year's Paintings for one of China's four major New Year's Paintings, known as the "Three Treasures of Sichuan", "Mianzhu three greats," reputation, Mianzhu New Year's Paintings is the result of the diligence and wisdom of generations of folk artists, embodying the spirit and wisdom of Sichuan, China, and the world. In February 2002, Mianzhu New Year's Paintings were selected as one of the first batch of Chinese intangible cultural heritage projects.

Mianzhu New Year's Paintings originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, it was injected with new contents and the aesthetic interests of modern people.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the invention of movable type printing, woodblock prints began to be widely popular and developed in Chinese folklore. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the four major production centers of Chinese New Year paintings were formed: Mianzhu New Year Paintings in Sichuan Province, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Weifang in Shandong Province, and Taohuayu in Jiangsu Province, which are known as the four major Chinese New Year paintings.

Mianzhu New Year's Paintings are famous for their colorful paintings, which have strong national characteristics and distinctive local features. The composition of Mianzhu New Year's Paintings is symmetrical, complete, full, with clear and diverse; the colors are contrasting, simple, bright, strong and bright, constituting a red-hot, warm artistic effect; the lines are refined and smooth, combining rigidity and flexibility, sparse and dense, with a strong sense of rhythm; and the exaggerations, deformations, symbols, and allegorical shapes, more witty and lively effect.