Mianzhu New Year Pictures Theme Works

Mianzhu New Year pictures workshops in its heyday were mainly distributed in Mianzhu urban area and southwest rural areas, with different styles. For example, the sweeping workshop is dominated by colored water robes; Zundao workshop emphasizes beauty, doll play and story; City New Year pictures are mainly rubbings, essays, fights, cases or paintings.

Mianzhu New Year pictures are divided into dividend goods and black goods. Red goods refer to painted New Year pictures, including door paintings, gladiators and stripes. Among them, there are many ways to make door paintings, such as heavy hair, two hairs and three hairs, which are used to paste doors, halls, doors and stoves. Draw a nave, a screen, a horizontal push, a single etc. For posting in halls, bedrooms, corridors and barns. Black goods refer to woodcut rubbings printed with cigarette ink or cinnabar, mostly landscapes, flowers and birds, statues and celebrity calligraphy and painting, with nave and stripes in the majority.

Mianzhu New Year pictures have a wide range of contents, including seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, historical figures, opera stories, folk customs, celebrity calligraphy and painting, flowers, birds, insects and fish, etc. According to the production method, it can be divided into three categories: "inking", "dripping" and "filling".

"Ink-printing": namely, wooden rubbings (collectively referred to as black goods), the contents of which are mostly folk customs and celebrity calligraphy and painting, myths and legends, etc.

Ink dropping: Chinese painting with ink painting as the main color, elegant and similar to lowercase. The content is mostly fairy tales and various opera stories.

According to the complexity, "color filling" (collectively referred to as red goods) can be divided into seven types, including Li Mingming line, color gold, printing gold, flower gold, formal shop, ink painting and water filling foot. Among them, the paintings of Ming calendar and Ming hanging are the most neat and delicate, and the colors are extremely rich and colorful. As for the feet filled with water, the color is simple, only a few strokes, but very vivid.

Door gods are the main varieties of Mianzhu traditional New Year pictures. In terms of specifications, there are three types: heavy hair, two hairs and three hairs (hair is the special opening of art paper for Mianzhu New Year pictures).

The so-called "heavy hair" means painting on the whole piece of chalk paper, and most of them are military commanders such as Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong, who are called "Wu Men Shen". Stick it on the gate to protect the house from violent attacks.

Ermao, that is, the literati posted on the second gate, painted slightly smaller than the former, mostly seeking happiness, pleasure and wealth.

The three hairs pasted on the bedroom door or kitchen door range from as little as 20 hairs, and most of them are ladies' dolls, such as flower-admiring beauties and babao boys.

In addition, there is a rare janitor, as big as the gate. This kind of door god is common on the huge dragon gate of the old big family, and its content is mostly military commanders. The most interesting are Han folk stories, such as a mouse marrying a girl, three monkeys scalding pigs, dogs biting the god of wealth and watching officials steal pots.

Mianzhu New Year pictures are rich in themes, including historical figures, brave soldiers, beautiful women, happy children and auspicious animals, flowers and fruits. Dou Fang is a kind of Han folk comics, mostly a one-page sketch with irony. Such as "mice marry women" and "three monkeys scald pigs" Most of the essays are based on Han folklore, and there are also cultural contents of filial piety and longevity. The most touching plots in traditional Chinese opera and literary works are all carved into figure paintings. There are also flower-and-bird paintings in Han folk style. Such as "Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures", "Hundred Years of Life Pictures" and The Journey to the West. Horizontal push is generally a scroll of banners showing large scenes with many characters, such as "Spring Festival" and "Flowers".

From the formal point of view, Mianzhu New Year pictures can be divided into bucket square, cross string, nave, strip screen and so on. Similar to traditional Chinese painting, but unique. Mianzhu's New Year pictures are not written by literati, but satirical monologues such as marrying a mouse and scalding a pig with three monkeys. Generally, Mianzhu New Year pictures are "Happy Lunar New Year" and "Spring Festival", which show many big scenes.

Mianzhu New Year pictures have four screens, eight screens and twelve screens. The content is mainly tortuous historical stories, myths and legends, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Centennial Life and Twenty-four Filial Pieties.

Nave in Mianzhu New Year pictures has auspicious contents, such as Magu's birthday and Wei Zi's photo. With the change of people's aesthetic taste, a large number of New Year pictures with the characteristics of the times and in line with modern people's aesthetic taste have been produced. At the same time, the form and content of mounting have also been reformed and innovated.