What is the painting of the god of the door that began in ancient times

Nianhua.

Nianhua is a kind of Chinese painting, which started in ancient times as "Door God Painting", is one of the Chinese folk arts, and is also one of the common folk crafts. It is one of China's folk arts and one of the most common folk crafts. It is a unique genre of painting in China, and is also a popular art form among the rural people of China.

Most of them are used for posting on New Year's Day, decorating the environment, and containing the blessing of the New Year's auspicious and festive meaning, so they are called New Year paintings. Traditional folk New Year's paintings are mostly made of watermarks on wood. The old New Year's paintings have different names because of the size of the painting and the amount of processing.

The whole picture is called "Gongjian", a paper three open called "Sancai". Processing more and more detailed called "painting Palace tip", "painting Sancai". Those painted with gold powder are called "Jin Gongjian" and "Jin Sanjai". Products made before June are called "Green Edition" and those made after July or August are called "Autumn Edition".

The Origin of Door God Paintings

Ancient people valued portals, which gave rise to the worship of door gods. People painted chickens and tigers on the door, hanging reed rope, hanging peach symbols, sticking Shentian, Yubi, Qin Qiong, Jingde, Zhong Kui, and so on, that can drive away evil spirits, and good fortune, and then produced a lunar new year posting the folk custom of the door god paintings. Since ancient times, this custom has been passed down for thousands of years.

With the development of economic and cultural development and further prosperity of folk culture coupled with the invention and application of engraved printing, the original Peach Fu or Chunlian was engraved and printed on the production of printed New Year's Eve paintings (Chunlian, etc.), production, form, and content is becoming richer and richer, and then after the door God painting appeared with a wide range of local characteristics of the genre.