What are the themes and carriers of New Year pictures?

The themes of New Year pictures are varied, and different periods and regions have different characteristics and contents, which are inseparable from local customs, appreciation habits and aesthetics. To sum up, it can be summarized as follows:

1. Describe the real social life and show the theme that the working people love the party, the motherland, the collective and labor.

2. Describe historical figures, opera stories, folklore, current affairs news and national heroes.

3. Describe the theme of customs throughout the year. Such as Dragon Boat Festival and Qixi Festival.

4. Describe the themes of flowers and fruits in the four seasons, such as Rong Sheng, Zhu Bao Ping 'an, Evergreen and Pomegranate.

5. Describe children's themes, such as five ways to get rich, five sons into the topic, a hundred sons' pictures, children's and grandchildren's pictures, etc.

6. Describe the theme of natural scenery and flowers.

Judging from the performance characteristics of the theme content of New Year pictures, there are several aspects: First, the content is entertaining. New Year pictures are mostly for people to enjoy the New Year, so the content should adapt to the people's desire to "celebrate the New Year with joy". Secondly, the work contains good wishes. Pay attention to the beautiful wishes for the future life through the content of the picture, and generally adopt the homonym "all take good names to welcome auspiciousness". Thirdly, it reflects the content of the times, which is particularly prominent in New Year pictures. Finally, the content is subtle and entertaining. There are some such contents in folk New Year pictures, but most of them are New Year pictures.

The genre forms of New Year pictures are also varied. This is determined by the different tools and materials used in various New Year pictures and the various needs of the masses for New Year pictures. This makes New Year pictures create new year pictures with different styles and applications. For example, the door painting posted on the gate, the door pairs on the doorframes on both sides, the V-shaped lamp hanging on the shadow wall inside the gate, the vertical tent hanging next to nave in the house, the screen bar hanging on the wall inside the house, the horizontal tent hanging on the kang, and the window painting hanging on both sides. According to the different forms of New Year pictures, the styles of New Year pictures can be divided into: woodblock New Year pictures, gouache New Year pictures, month brand New Year pictures, meticulous New Year pictures and so on. Nowadays, many New Year pictures we have seen have surpassed folk New Year pictures in painting and printing, and have made great progress. Such as acrylic New Year pictures, pen-spraying New Year pictures, etc.