Where are the four major production areas of China's New Year paintings

Foshan, Guangdong and Tianjin Yangliuqing, Shandong Weifang, Suzhou Taohuawu is China's famous woodblock prints four major production areas

Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings

Yangliuqing (formerly known as the ancient willow mouth), is in Tianjin, due west of the thirty-mile town, when the lower reaches of the Daqing River, the scenery is pleasant, convenient transportation, the town's residents operating the business of the New Year's Paintings accounted for about two-fifths of the business by the end of the Ming dynasty during the Chongzhen period, has a long history of more than three hundred years. opened to date, has a long history of more than three hundred years. Peak period is in the Qing Guangxu ten years ago, each year to sell more than 20 million copies, marketing in North China and Northeast China, as far as the northwest of Xinjiang. The early years of the prints, such as those of Qi Jianlong, Dai Lianzeng, and Meiliji, have become treasures on the mainland, and even more rare overseas.f

Hanting (Yangjiabu) New Year's Paintings in Weifang, Shandong

Secondly, we should talk about the Hanting New Year's Paintings, the town of Hanting, Shandong, is about forty miles northeast of the town of Weixian, Shandong Province; however, the production of New Year's Paintings is not located in the town of Hanting, but rather in the Hanting vicinity of a number of small villages, including the most famous of the West Yangjiabu. Among them to the West Yangjiabu most famous, almost more than a hundred families operating in the New Year's paintings, most of them are just a family side business, specializing in this business, but a few, of which the "Tongshuntang" one of the largest, with a strong capital, production in addition to marketing in the counties within the territory of Shandong, South to the Yangtze River Basin, the north from the Northeastern provinces, the west is up to the area of Zhengzhou, it is not to say that the not wide.

Hanting yearbook a **** can be divided into six categories:

The first category is the gods and horses like, the god of the door, the god of wealth, the king of the stove, the Eight Immortals and so on is.

The second category is crop life, like spring plowing picture, fall harvest picture, New Year's picture and so on is.

The third category is auspicious portraits, such as richness and prosperity, fortune and longevity, and even the birth of a son are.

The fourth category is the portrait of pleasure, fishing and woodcutting, spring, summer, fall and winter.

The fifth category is story portraits, such as the Twenty-four Filial Piety, Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai, and so on.

The sixth category is theater portraits, the Tang Monk fetching scriptures, the Peach Garden and so on are. The expression and movement of each character in the painting are appropriately portrayed.

Hanting theater paintings, mostly taken from the stage costumes, which can be divided into two kinds: one is completely in accordance with the form of the stage and paintings; the other is the form of the stage to embellish, for example: the warriors will have to ride a horse, the battlefield is equipped with landscapes and trees, and indoor doors and windows and furnishings can also be added. However, the costumes of the characters are still modeled after those of the stage, especially the flower faces, which are also sketched according to the style of the play. It is said that the theater paintings in Hanting got a lot of new manuscripts from Wang Shoutian, a famous painter in Tianjin, and thus became famous together with Yang Liuqing.

The above six types of New Year's paintings, the first type of the earliest; but the door god, the king of the stove is not enough to meet the requirements of people's artistic appreciation, so the second and even the third type of the cage will come out one after another. However, the theater paintings produced in the area of Hanting, it seems to be very similar to the output of Yang Liuqing, just a slight change in color.

Suzhou, Jiangsu, Peach Blossom Square New Year's Paintings

Suzhou, Peach Blossom Square New Year's Paintings again, the years of its opening in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the age of the Tianjin Yangliuqing, Foshan, Guangdong, is a tripod and three of the famous New Year's Paintings production area. In addition to Suzhou is the center of its sales field, more far and Hunan, Hubei and Yunnan, Guizhou, Fujian, Gan places, a number of years has been consistent. There is also a famous painter Wang Tieshan, his font is very elegant, rich in calligraphy, especially with the reality of landscape painting brushwork, writing West Lake scenery, known as a masterpiece.

Taohuayu New Year's Paintings, the most fashionable in addition to the three-star picture, Tianguan Zhifu, etc., there are funny New Year's Paintings and New Year's Paintings of common sense. The former, such as: "Mouse marrying", "five ghosts", "six children", "afraid of his wife", etc., all have a satirical meaning. The latter, such as: "Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs", "Hundred Birds Picture." The latter, such as "Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs," "The Hundred Birds," "The Five Lunar Figures," "The Eighteen Scenes of West Lake," and "The Three Friends of the Year." Three Friends", etc., are sufficient for people to check and appreciate. It also focuses on theater paintings, such as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Qin Xianglian, Southeast Peacock Flight, West Wing, Autumn River, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, etc., are from the handwriting of famous painters, never vulgar.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on June 8, 2007, the Museum of Woodcut New Year's Paintings in Taohuayu, Jiangsu Province, was awarded the first Cultural Heritage Day Prize issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

Nianhua of Foshan, Guangdong

Finally, there are the Foshan Nianhua (New Year's Paintings) of Guangdong. Foshan was originally a large town in Nanhai County, the peak period of its sales of New Year's paintings was in the late Qing Dynasty between the civil cuts to the rural areas as the main market, including Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou part of the region, and as far as the South China Sea Islands. But to our country before the war against Japan, that is gradually declining, which is due to four reasons:

① Foshan's commercial status was replaced by Guangzhou;

② is the stone instead of the traditional traditional brown brush woodblock printing the old method;

③ is the people's wisdom is gradually open, with a strong superstitious color of the gods and goddesses paintings, can not adapt to the public needs;

4 is the rural economy is in decline, the purchasing power of the weak. purchasing power is weak.