What are the contents of New Year pictures?

Traditional New Year pictures are mainly woodcut watermarks, which pursue simple style and lively atmosphere, so the lines are simple and the colors are bright. The content includes flowers and birds, fat children, golden roosters, spring cattle, myths and legends, historical stories and so on. It expresses people's longing for a bumper harvest and a happy life, and has strong national characteristics and local flavor.

Most New Year pictures are based on auspicious, festive, joyful and beautiful things, or on allusions and idioms, with plots and easy to understand. It draws on a wide range of materials, such as historical stories, myths and legends, absorbing people, world customs, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc.

Classification of new year pictures

It is distinguished by the size of the frame and the amount of processing. The whole paper is called "Gong Jian", the paper is called "Three Talents", and the processing is called "Drawing Gong Jian" and "Drawing Three Talents". In color, those coated with gold powder are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Three Talents". From the point of printing time, the products before June are called "Spring Edition", and those after July and August are called "Autumn Edition" to make Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures. The main characteristics of the production method are woodcut printing (that is, woodcut watermark registration) and manual color filling and redrawing (that is, processing and drawing).