The Theme of hua county Woodblock New Year Pictures

The contents of hua county woodblock New Year pictures are mainly figures of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, gods worshipped by all walks of life, and New Year pictures for praying for blessings.

Hua county woodblock New Year pictures are rich in content, including immortals, genealogy, fairy tales, landscapes, drama stories and so on. And main hall, door gods, kitchen gods, couplets, fans, etc. , mainly related to folk beliefs, reflecting the expectations of the ancients to live in harmony with heaven and earth.

Later, artists followed the tradition, explored and innovated, and professionally drew a series of traditional New Year pictures and a new series of palace decorative New Year pictures. There are nearly 100 kinds of idols, genealogies, fan-shaped flowers and birds, fan-shaped drama characters and couplets. Various specifications and varieties of middle and high-grade New Year pictures, scrolls, picture frames, single pages, album pages and boutique sets.

Hua county woodblock New Year pictures mainly focus on gods and genealogy, while in content, they mainly focus on figures of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and gods worshipped by various industries. Woodblock prints take figures, myths, allusions and mascots as their contents. In addition, there are many words in the couplets of Huaxian woodblock New Year pictures, which are still difficult to decipher.

The theme of hua county Woodblock New Year Pictures is "Worship God's Town House, Happiness, Harmony between Heaven and Earth". Among the carved statues, there are Huang San, Tathagata, Jade Emperor, Thousand-handed Guanyin, Fengshan Laonai, Taishang Laojun, Land God, Raytheon, Songzi Guanyin (raw milk) and Tianzu (Shennong). The Jade Emperor showed his reverence for heaven, and Tianzu Shennong opened up agricultural cultivation, which has a lofty position in the society based on agriculture. Guanyin is widely regarded as saving suffering, caring for the emperor and being loyal to the future, and later formed a literary god with Fan Li, giving human wealth and blessings. All these fully reflect the worship and belief of the people in the Central Plains and have profound cultural connotations. Thirdly, there is Zhong Kui's ghost-catching plan, which is rough and bold, exaggerated and full of beauty. This painting is used to hang on the inner wall of the bed to avoid ghosts and evil spirits and drive away diseases.