What are the four major production areas of Chinese New Year paintings

The Four Greats of Chinese New Year Paintings

The woodblock prints of Yangjiabu in Weifang, Shandong Province, the Mianzhu New Year Paintings in Sichuan Province, the Peach Blossom Dock in Jiangsu Province, and the Yang Liuqing in Tianjin Province have long been famous in the history, and they are known as China's "Four Greats of Chinese New Year Paintings".

▲Suzhou Peach Blossom Dock

The Peach Blossom Dock woodblock prints are the main folk woodblock prints in the south of China's Yangtze River. Peach Blossom Dock is located in the north of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. （The city is located in the northern city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, within the Gate of Changsha. The Peach Blossom Dock New Year's Paintings originated from the Song Dynasty's engraving and printing process, which evolved from the embroidered images, and developed into a school of folk art in the Ming Dynasty, with its heyday in the Qing Dynasty's Yongzheng and Qianlong Dynasties, and its annual production of Peach Blossom Dock woodblock New Year's Paintings amounting to more than a million. At the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing soldiers besieged Suzhou, Taohuayu woodblock prints production was seriously damaged, and has been depressed since then. Until the early 1950s, by the Suzhou City Federation of Arts and Culture Organization artists to resume production, and then set up the "Suzhou Taohuayu woodblock prints and drawings society", in the whole old innovation, has made great progress.

The Peach Blossom Wood New Year's Paintings are mainly in the form of door paintings, medium paintings and screen strips, among which the door paintings can be said to be a collection of a complete list of door deities of the past generations. Peach Blossom Dock New Year's Eve paintings, the Department of a one-color woodblock overprinting method of printing out, exquisite craftsmanship, a painting to overprint four or five to a dozen times, and some have to go through the "gold", "sweeping the silver", "dressing powder "and other processes. In terms of color, there are peach, red, blue, purple, green, light ink, lemon yellow and other colors. In terms of artistic style, the Peach Blossom Dock New Year's Paintings are rich in composition, colorful and decorative, and rich in the flavor of life. In the character shaping, knifing and coloring, it has the characteristics of simple, childish, concise and rich folk art, so it has been sold well at home and abroad for hundreds of years, and it has been collected by museums and art galleries in many European countries.

The printing of Taohuayu New Year's Paintings is both coloring and color overlay, with symmetrical, full-bodied compositions, brilliant colors, often with purple and red as the main tone to express the joyful atmosphere, basically all overlay production, carving, color and shape with fine and elegant folk art style of Jiangnan, mainly expressing auspicious celebrations, folk life, opera stories, flowers, birds, fruits and vegetables, and exorcism of ghosts and evil spirits and other traditional aesthetic folk content. The folk painting world called "Gusu version".

▲Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings

The folk woodblock prints of Yangliuqing (located 20 kilometers west of Tianjin) with a history of 600 years were produced at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, a folk artist who was good at carving took refuge in the town of Yangliuqing, and on New Year's festivals, he carved some door gods and sold out the king of the house, and the townspeople imitated the work. When the Grand Canal was reopened during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, delicate paper and watercolors from the south were transported to Yangliuqing, which led to the development of the art of painting here. Yangliuqing New Year paintings were most popular from the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty to the early Guangxu period. There were several thousand kinds of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings (pastels). By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the heyday of the town of Yangliuqing, Dai Lianzeng painting store a year production of finished products up to 2,000 pieces, each piece of 500 sheets, **** up to a million. At that time, Yangliuqing town together with more than 30 nearby villages, "every family will be dyed, every good painting", painting stores lined up, store painting samples hanging high, businessmen from all over the world, is a veritable town of painting. After the Second Opium War, Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings went into decline, and in 1926, Huo Yutang, the fifth successor of Huo Pai, established the largest "Yucheng No." paintings shop in Yangliuqing Town, and Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings gradually went into recovery. After the liberation, Premier Zhou Enlai personally inspected and sent the much-needed raw materials of Garcinia Cambogia to the workshop. "During the Cultural Revolution, Yangliuqing New Year paintings were changed to offset printing, and the traditional craft was on the verge of extinction.

Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Painting Huo Qingyu (son of Huo Yutang), the sixth generation of the Huo School, inherited his father's ambition from the 1980s, and spent nearly 30 years studying the traditional techniques of hooking, engraving, brushing, painting and framing, mastering the whole Yangliuqing New Year Painting process, and became the only one of the Tianjin area who is capable of hooking, engraving, brushing, painting, and framing, and is the only Yangliuqing New Year Painting artist who has the ability of all-round work. He became the only "all-rounded" Yang Liu Qing New Year Painting artist in Tianjin and revived the hand-painted woodblock Yang Liu Qing New Year Painting which was nearly extinct. Today, the "Yucheng No." paintings have been built into a family museum, becoming a humanistic attraction for Chinese and foreign tourists.

Yangliuqing New Year Paintings inherited the tradition of Song and Yuan paintings, absorbed the forms of Ming Dynasty woodblock prints, arts and crafts, and theatrical stages, and adopted the method of combining woodblock overprinting and hand-painting. When making the paintings, they are firstly engraved with woodblock prints, and then printed with ink, and then filled in with colorful brushes after they have been overprinted with monochromatic prints for two or three times. It has both the taste of the plate and wood, and the colorfulness and craftsmanship of hand-painting, so the folk art has a strong flavor and is rich in Chinese style. Yangliuqing New Year Prints have created a unique style that is vivid, lively, joyful and auspicious, and rich in touching themes. In the history of Chinese printmaking, Yangliuqing New Year Painting and the famous Taohuayu New Year Painting of Suzhou in the south are known as "Southern Peach and Northern Willow".

Yangliuqing New Year Paintings express the people's beautiful feelings and wishes through allegorical and realistic techniques, and are especially characterized by the direct reflection of current events, customs and historical stories of various periods. For example, the doll on the picture "Liannian Yuyue", with a child's face and Buddha's body, and a playful posture, holding a carp in his arms and a lotus flower in his hand, which is a harmonic symbol of a rich life, has become a classic of Chinese New Year's Paintings, and has been widely circulated. Yangliuqing New Year paintings have a wide range of materials, such as historical stories, myths and legends, opera characters, secular customs and landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Especially those subjects closely related to people's lives, as well as those with the nature of current news, etc., which are not only rich in artistic appreciation, but also have a precious historical research value. The fine tradition of combining realism and romanticism represented by these excellent works has formed the mainstream of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings, which has continued to develop until now. The artistic characteristics of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings are manifold, and the conditions for the formation of its artistic characteristics are also manifold. Among them, the more obvious and prominent one is in the production. The production procedure of Yangliuqing New Year Paintings is roughly as follows: creating a draft, dividing the plate, engraving the plate, overprinting, color painting and mounting. The preliminary process is roughly the same as other woodblock prints. It is based on the draft engraving and overprinting; while the post-production of Yangliuqing New Year paintings is to spend more time on hand-painting, which skillfully blends the knife of printmaking with the brushstrokes and tones of painting to make the two arts complement each other. And also due to the painting artist's different methods of expression, the same piece of Yangliuqing New Year's Eve blanks (unpainted ink lines or sets of semi-finished products). Can be painted into a fine drawing "fine work", and bold and rough "rough work", the artistic style is very different, each have their own artistic value.

▲Yangjiabu, Weifang, Shandong Province

Yangjiabu woodblock prints in Weifang, Shandong Province, emerged in the Ming Dynasty, all hand-operated and made in the traditional way, the early development of the influence of Yang Liuqing New Year's Paintings, the Qing Dynasty reached its heyday, Yangjiabu once appeared in the "paintings of hundreds of stores, paintings of more than a thousand kinds of paintings, paintings of ten thousand plates" of the scene, the products are distributed throughout the country. The products were distributed all over the country. Among them, the biggest one, Dongdashun Painting Shop, had more than 300 sets of plates and made more than one million paintings annually. Yangjiabu New Year's paintings have a wide range of genres, rich imagination, heavy use of primary colors, rough lines, and simple style.

Yangjiabu woodblock prints, together with Yangliuqing of Tianjin and Taohuayu of Suzhou, are known as the three major woodblock prints of Chinese folklore, which started in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, focusing on festivities, rich colors and practicality, and reflecting ideals, customs and daily life, with a complete and proportional composition, a robust and simple modeling, and concise and fluent lines. According to the actual needs of farmers to decorate their living environment, there are mainly gate paintings, house door paintings, lucky lanterns, beauty strips, standing children, crawling children, moonlight, etc., with a strong folk flavor, local flavor and festive atmosphere.

Yangjiabu woodblock prints have a wide range of subjects and colorful contents, such as gods and goddesses, beauty strips, golden children, landscapes, flowers and birds, dramatic characters, myths and legends, etc. Also, there are works reflecting the folk life and criticizing the ills of the times, but the theme of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings is joyfulness and auspiciousness. Such as good luck, happy new year, congratulations on wealth, wealth and glory, year after year, peace and happiness, like the blessing of loved ones, like a good friend's greetings, constitutes a farmer's new year peaceful and joyful, praying for wealth and peace of character. "Skillfully painting the scholar, farmer, industrialist and businessman, depicting the God of Wealth and Bodhisattva, collecting all the world's major events, as well as charting what is heard in the alleys and lanes, regardless of the North and South style, but also painting the anecdotes of the past and present". The main content of Yangjiabu New Year's paintings includes six categories, namely, New Year's, marriage, farming and other customs, yearly wealth, goldfish full of class, such as luck, God of the Gate, God of Wealth, Longevity, Zao Wang and other blessings to ward off evil spirits, the Bao Gong on the job, the Three Gu Gu Floss, the Eight Immortals across the sea and other legends, boxing and selling, the promotion of the figure of entertainment and satire, the three suns to open up, the opening of the big chickens, the four seasons of the flowers, such as beasts, auspicious birds, flowers, and landscapes.

The production process of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings is also unique. Artists first use willow charcoal, incense ash for painting, called the "rotten draft", on the basis of the rotten draft and then complete the draft, tracing out the line of the draft, the reverse paste in the pear plate for carving, respectively, carving out the line of the plate and the color plate. And then after color mixing, paper clip, to the plate, deal with the color run, etc., hand-printed. After printing out the New Year's paintings, it is also necessary to manually fill in various colors for simple depiction to make the New Year's paintings look natural and vivid.

Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings are produced in several processes, including painting, carving, printing, and mounting, each of which is extremely fine and accurate. The practice is to first sketch the black line of the drawing, paste it onto a flat pearwood or tongwood board, and carve out the main line of the plate. After the main line is printed out, different colors are then engraved into the plate, printing in sets of colors, and finally the plate is repaired and mounted.

When it was prosperous, just into the fall, all kinds of painting merchants gathered in Yangjiabu. At night, the streets were lined with lanterns and colorful New Year's paintings were hung all over the streets. Every year, more than 5,000 merchants came to buy paintings. At that time, the paintings were sold in small segments, the most popular lyrics were: "Once in the door came Su Dongpo, sat down Han Xin asked Xiao He. It's not that I don't give credit, but I'm too nosy to ask for it nowadays. Credit is just like the three knots of righteousness, asking for money is like inviting Zhuge."

Yangjiabu woodblock prints, step by step on the elegant art hall. 1983 Spring Festival, the National Art Museum of China exhibited Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings. In the same year, Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings went to America, Europe, Africa, 9 countries tour exhibition. 1987, folk artist Yang Fuyuan was invited to Singapore for woodblock prints of painting, carving, printing performance. In the 1990s, a group of Yangjiabu New Year's Paintings artists went to Brazil, Japan and other countries to give live performances, which were highly praised. 2002, Yang Luoshu, a 76-year-old New Year's Paintings folk artist and the authentic owner of the 200-year-old "Tongshunde" paintings store, was awarded "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Yang Luoshu, a 76-year-old folk artist, was awarded the honorary title of "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by UNESCO. Yang Luoshu started woodblock print creation at the age of 18, and his "Water Margin", "Emperor's Picture", "Journey to the West", etc. are all marvelous compositions, fine carvings, lifelike, and rich in local flavor, which are loved by the people. Today, a small village of only 310 households, 1,150 people Yangjiabu, the annual production of woodblock prints reached more than 20 million, exported to all parts of the country and the world more than 100 countries and regions. Yangjiabu has become an important stop on the 1,000-mile folkloric tourism line in Weifang, Shandong Province. Here, people can appreciate more than 100 sets of fine New Year paintings, witness a wide variety of New Year painting production tools and original plates since the Ming Dynasty, and watch the mysterious New Year painting production process on the spot.

▲Sichuan Mianzhu New Year Paintings

Mianzhu New Year Paintings are named after Mianzhu County in Sichuan Province, which is the hometown of bamboo paper. Mianzhu New Year paintings have a long history, which originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and entered a prosperous period in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. During the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, there were more than 300 workshops of large and small size in Mianzhu County, with more than 1,000 yearly production of more than 12 million copies of yearly paintings, which were not only exported to the two lakes, Shaanxi Province, Gan Province, Qing Province and Sichuan Province, but also exported to India, Japan, Vietnam, Burma, Hong Kong and Macao, etc. At the beginning of 2004, Chen Qiang, the grandson of Chen Xingcai, the veteran artist of yearly paintings in Mianzhu County, showed the innovative yearly paintings that he had created recently. "Squeezing the Golden Gate God".

Mianzhu New Year's Paintings are famous for their colorful paintings, which have strong national characteristics and distinctive local features. The composition of Mianzhu New Year's Paintings demands symmetry, completeness, fullness, clear separation of primary and secondary, diversity and unity; the colors use contrasting techniques, simple and bright colors, strong and bright, constituting a red-hot, warm artistic effect; the lines seek to be refined, smooth, just and soft, sparse and dense, with a strong sense of rhythm; and exaggeration, deformation, symbolism, allegorical modeling, a more witty and lively effect.

The contents of Mianzhu New Year's Paintings are extremely wide, including historical heroes such as Kong Ming and Zhang Fei, wonderful scenes from novels and operas, statues of warrior gods, animals, flowers and fruits, etc. The most interesting of these paintings is "The Rat". Among them, the most interesting ones are folk legends such as "The Rat Marrying His Daughter", "Three Monkeys Scalding a Pig", "The Dog Biting the God of Fortune" and "The Watching Officer Stealing a Pot".

Mianzhu New Year paintings are divided into two categories: red goods and black goods. The red goods refer to the colorful New Year paintings, including door paintings, doufang, painting strips. Among them, the door painting production methods are diverse: fine work has "Mingzhan Minghang", "printing gold", "hook gold", "flower gold "; coarse work has a "regular line", "ink", "fill water feet. Painting strips, divided into the hall, screen, horizontal push, single strips, etc., for the hall, living room, corridor and livestock pens and other posting purposes. Door paintings have big hair, two hair, three hair and other sizes, sticking the door, hall door, room door, stove door. Black goods, refers to the smoke ink or vermilion sand topography woodblock topiary, mostly landscapes, birds, gods and celebrities paintings, such as in the hall, the majority of the screen.

Other Famous New Year Paintings

▲Zhu Xian Town Woodblock New Year Paintings

Zhu Xian Town Woodblock New Year Paintings have a long history, and can be called one of the pearls in the treasure trove of Chinese folk art. During the Northern Song Dynasty, every New Year's festival, especially the Spring Festival, every family posted the god of the door has become a fashion, in order to pray for longevity and prosperity, good luck, fortune and treasure, to suppress the evil and remove the demon. Later, the Northern Song Dynasty fell, fell, Kaigua several wars, woodblock prints will decline. To the Ming Dynasty, Kaifeng New Year's paintings, although revitalized, but has been gradually transferred to Zhu Xian Town. The end of the Ming dynasty flooding, Kaifeng was submerged, all industries are abandoned, Zhu Xian Town became the center of woodblock prints. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 300 woodblock print workshops in Zhuxian Town, and there were more than seventy of them at the end of Qing Dynasty, among which, "Wantong", "Tianxingde", "De Shengchang", "Tianyide" were more famous. Their works were sold well all over the world, so the New Year's paintings in Kaifeng area were collectively called "Zhuxianzhen Woodblock New Year's Paintings", which had far-reaching influence. Zhuxianzhen is 10 kilometers south of Kaifeng City in Henan Province. Although it is a small town, it was one of the Four Great Ancient Towns of China in ancient times. Especially at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei led an army here to defeat the Jin soldiers of Wuzhu, and Zhuxianzhen became better known to the people of China. In order to commemorate the achievements of Yue's army, there is a sizeable Yue throne built in Zhuxian Town, and today the Zhuxian Town Woodblock Printing Society is located in this ancient temple.

The woodblock prints of Zhuxian Town are mainly divided into two types: yin-carved and yang-carved, black and white paintings and overlay paintings, and handmade watermarks are used. There are more than two thousand kinds of forms, such as Wenwu Men Shen, God figure, play out and hanging paper. Zhuxianzhen woodblock prints have five characteristics: first, the line is rough, thick and thin; second, the image is exaggerated, big head and small body; third, the composition is full, left and right symmetry; fourth, colorful, contrasting; fifth, the door god of the god code, serious and dignified. Zhuxianzhen New Year paintings can be divided into two categories, one is the gods and goddesses paintings, such as Zaojun God, God of Heaven and Earth, etc., and the other is the door god category, Zhuxianzhen woodblock New Year paintings in the most is the door god, the door god of Qin Qiong, Yuchi Jinde two generals are mainly. Those large and small paintings of the door god, the two generals or dressed differently, or different forms: step under the whip, whip on the horse, turn back to the horse whip, hold the whip, vertical knife, cloak, etc., no less than 20 kinds of styles. In addition, there are a variety of civil and military door god. Cultural door god has five children, nine lotus lamps, fortune and longevity, etc.; martial arts door god is often in the theater of the loyal and righteous and all kinds of heroes and heroes. Different people's room door often posted different content of the door god: married children's generation room door sticker "Tianxian send son", "Lian Sheng Guizi", "Sanniang teach children"; middle-aged people's room door sticker "plus officials into the fortune", "step by step lotus birth"; the elderly room door sticker "pine and crane" and "longevity" and so on; Children and young people living room door sticker "five children to win", "Liu Hai play Golden Toad" and so on.

Zhu Xianzhen woodblock prints, not only has a very high art collection value, but also highly ornamental value, many celebrities have collected Zhu Xianzhen woodblock prints, Mr. Lu Xun gave its high evaluation: "Zhu Xianzhen woodblock prints are very good, the carving of the lines of the robust and powerful, and other places are different, is not a delicate carving. These woodcuts are very simple, not painted, the characters are not charming, the color is very strong, there is a taste of the countryside, with the unique characteristics of the northern woodblock prints." This is a good summary of the artistic characteristics of woodblock prints in Zhuxianzhen. Now the Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shanghai still holds 26 pieces of Lu Xun's collection of Zhuxianzhen New Year's Paintings.

▲Wuqiang New Year Paintings

Wuqiang New Year Paintings are popular folk woodblock prints in North China, which are mainly produced in Wuqiang County, Hebei Province, and are known as the "Hometown of New Year Paintings". Wuqiang Nianhua is a folk art developed under the influence of primitive farming methods, Buddhist ideas, traditional concepts and ancient national customs. It is a woodblock print made of colorful overprints after three processes of painting, engraving and printing. Wuqiang New Year's Paintings originated before the Yuan Dynasty, formed a scale in the early Ming Dynasty, and entered its heyday during the period from Kangxi to Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (1662 to 1820 AD). Until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in Wuqiang County, South Pass has a name can be examined painting store there are still 144, 68 villages around it **** there are 1,587 folk workshop engaged in the production and sale of paintings, thousands of practitioners, in the field of the opening of more than 180 places of the wholesale bank, the highest annual sales of 100 million pairs of open, marketing half of China at the time.

Wuqiang New Year's Paintings have a wide range of subjects, diverse forms, and a strong local flavor; the works are full of composition, prominent themes, compact structure, bold lines, and the application of black, red, green, yellow, purple, pink and other colors, contrasting with the bright, highly decorative. There are door paintings, window paintings, lamp paintings, doufang, gongxian, Zhongtang paintings, kangwai paintings, roof paintings, hoarding paintings, couplets, screens, etc., and even cowsheds and stables have special New Year's paintings posted. In the carving method, some fine, some coarse and fine, especially the bold and rough natural carving method, mainly engraved in Yang, some of them are also applied to the yin carving, the use of black and white contrast, showing the taste of the knife wood interest, pen and ink, make a unique style of simple and simple and childish. Subjects mainly include theater stories, customs and fashion, celebratory symbolism, dolls and beautiful women, flowers and landscapes. The representative works are "trekking in the snow to find plums", "three mothers teach their children", "Zhaozhou stone bridge" and so on.

Wuqiang Nianhua industry in the country's strong support, has gained significant development, the establishment of the Wuqiang Nianhua Society; in 1985, approved by the Hebei Provincial Department of cultural relics, this prestigious "China's woodblock print hometown," the establishment of China's first Nianhua Museum - - Museum. 1992, the Wuqiang Nianhua Museum.

Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum. 1992 and 1994 held two sessions of "China Wuqiang New Year Painting Festival". 1993 December, the Ministry of Culture officially named Wuqiang for the country's "folk woodblock prints hometown".

▲Foshan New Year's Paintings

Folk woodblock prints are popular in southern China. It is produced in Foshan Town (now Foshan City), Guangdong Province. It started during the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty and flourished during the Qianlong and Jiajing periods of Qing Dynasty. Foshan New Year paintings are divided into three types: original paintings, woodblock prints, and woodblock prints with brushwork, including two categories: door paintings and idol paintings. The subjects taken include various gods and goddesses, historical figures, opera stories and so on. They are characterized by strong, bold and concise lines, and have the fun of woodcutting. The colors are mostly red, orange, yellow, green, etc. Some of them have absorbed the characteristics of local copper-lined paper-cutting art, and the armor and robe of the characters in the paintings are decorated with gold and silver patterns, which makes the statues of the gods brilliant, and this strong decorative style can be regarded as one of the specialties of the Foshan New Year Paintings.

▲Fengxiang woodblock prints

Tai Zengke, a villager from Nanshao Village in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, has been making woodblock prints for years. The original has been engaged in the production of woodblock New Year's paintings, Tai Zengke has now given up this craft. Fengxiang woodblock New Year's paintings for many years by the Northwest people love, but woodblock New Year's paintings in recent years by the impact of offset New Year's paintings, the market is extremely depressed. Now Fengxiang County engaged in printmaking only Tai Liping, Wang Huifang couple, and so far there is no heirloom, printmaking technology is facing loss.

▲Dongfengtai woodblock prints

Tianjin Dongfengtai woodblock prints had a glorious history, once enjoying a high reputation like Yangliuqing prints in western Tianjin. However, due to the lack of attention, the physical objects such as painting plates and finished products disappeared and are not easily seen today. Tianjin Fengtai Town is located at the junction of Ninghe, Baodi, Fengrun and Yutian, with convenient transportation, and was once a gathering of merchants and businessmen, with the reputation of "the first town in the east of Beijing". In order to distinguish it from Beijing Fengtai, it is called Dongfengtai. East Fengtai New Year's paintings have a long history, when the climate can be traced back to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was a red-hot scene of "family dyeing, household painting". At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, there were more than 10 famous painting stores in the town, and 13 large-scale paper-dyeing workshops, which was one of the largest distribution centers of Jidong New Year paintings. Although Dongfengtai Nianhua inherits the characteristics of Yangliuqing Nianhua, it is also influenced by the folklore of Northeast China and Jidong, and has its own style. In comparison, the colors are more vivid, and the images are more rugged and exaggerated. In addition, the version is also more unique, some of the bold use of auspicious words, at the expense of occupying the main body of the picture; some for the window format picture, will be more than 10 pieces of plate splicing overprinting, all in one; there are reproducing the plot of the drama, the picture can be framed into a 16-panel bar screen, etc. In 2004 the new year, tianjin folk literature and history workers in tianjin, ninghe fengtai town of the year when the old workshop's backyard home accidentally found a batch of nearly a hundred years ago, east fengtai woodblock new year pictures East Fengtai woodblock prints. These have a strong visual impact of the old yearbook picture content is broad, there are heavenly officials to give blessings, the god of the door, nine phoenix sunrise, the beauty of the picture, send money to the children and so on.