What thoughts do the New Year pictures reflect?

New Year pictures reflect people's yearning for a better life, their aesthetic orientation and cultural prayers. New Year pictures are usually endowed with the theme of punishing evil and promoting good, respecting loyalty and courage, which not only brings beautiful enjoyment to the bottom people, but also plays an inspiring role.

New Year picture is a kind of Chinese painting, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting". It is one of the Han folk arts and one of the common folk handicrafts. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, it was officially called New Year Pictures, which was a unique painting school of Han nationality in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole painting is called "Palace Tip", three pieces of paper are called "Three Talents" and many detailed processes are called "Painting Palace Tip" and "Painting Three Talents". The colors of gold powder coating are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Tricks". Products before June are called "green edition", and products after July and August are called "autumn edition".

New Year pictures are auspicious images of ancient China. In the long years, with the evolution of festival customs, the unique symbolic decorative art of China folk has been formed. Its origin can be traced back to the ancient concept of nature worship and belief in gods. China's early New Year pictures are closely related to two themes: exorcism and praying for good luck. In the process of praying for a bumper harvest, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and other holiday customs, the corresponding New Year decorative arts gradually appeared.