What is the right brush and what is the right paint for New Year's Eve painting?

The selection of brushes for Chinese New Year paintings generally includes brushes, outlining brushes and coloring brushes, and watercolors are used for the pigments.

The subject matter of New Year's paintings is all-encompassing, totaling more than 2,000 kinds of paintings, which can be called an encyclopedia of folk life. It can be roughly categorized into four aspects:

(1) Gods and Immortals and Auspicious Objects

This is the basic theme of New Year paintings. Gods and Immortals are the main content of early New Year's paintings, and it occupies a large proportion in the paintings. Auspicious objects include auspicious beasts and birds such as lions, tigers, deer, cranes and phoenixes, flowers such as lotus flowers and peonies, and fictional objects such as money trees and treasure pots, etc. These auspicious objects represent auspicious meanings through metaphors, symbols or harmonies, and express the themes of warding off evils and avoiding calamities and welcoming good fortune and good fortune.

(2) Secular Life

Folk artists express real life through their own observations and feelings. This kind of theme is less than others in New Year's paintings. The themes of secular life mainly include people's work, festivals and customs, current events and interesting stories.

(3) Dolls and Beauties

This kind of theme occupies a large proportion in folk New Year's paintings, which expresses people's good wishes to have a child early in life, and to have a husband and wife in harmony.

(4) Stories and Legends

This part is mostly taken from historical events, folk stories, myths and legends, novels and operas, among which the proportion of operatic themes is the largest. Commonly seen in this kind of yearbook are Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber, Legend of the White Snake, and Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, etc. People tend to grow through this kind of theme. People often increase their knowledge and receive traditional moral education through these kinds of subjects.