The Cultural Value of New Year Pictures

In a society with agriculture as the main mode of production, New Year pictures have experienced thousands of years of historical changes, but as a folk belief, their cultural value system has not been interrupted, showing a cultural value orientation that is in harmony with official orthodox culture.

1. Auspicious theme is the concept of * * in the creation of Chinese New Year pictures. China folk New Year pictures, no matter in subject matter, artistic form or expression technique, have the most basic functions of expressing auspiciousness, blessing and exorcism, and become the most vital, popular and user-and-audience-friendly paintings. With the development of history, the themes of New Year pictures are constantly enriched and developed.

Secondly, the modeling of New Year pictures comes from the accumulation of thousands of years of ancient culture in China, from the collective aesthetic consciousness formed by the specific social structure in rural areas of China, and from the unique thinking mode and modeling consciousness of folk artists. Some New Year pictures are very similar in shape, and people can clearly see the long-standing traditional traces hidden behind them.

Thirdly, imagination plays an important role in the creation of New Year pictures. Without imagination, there is no creation of artistic image. Folk artists' expression of modeling is entirely based on memory and imagination. From "meaning" to modeling, modeling changes at will, and their strong subjective imagination is integrated into modeling. In the imaginative art of New Year pictures, everything in nature has human spirituality, and reality and ideal, objectivity and subjectivity are integrated. The image of New Year pictures is straightforward, naive, imaginative and close to human nature, but far from the surface features of objects, not seeking simplicity, and extremely exaggerated.

Fourth, New Year pictures have a fixed tradition and process. The requirements and operating methods of making New Year pictures in different places reflect the cultural choices and differences between different cultures, and also reflect the national spirit, national identity, social organization and life experience and emotion contained in the inheritance methods of New Year pictures-heirloom, recruiting disciples and running schools. Words and deeds are the main means of inheriting New Year pictures.

China folk New Year pictures are almost examples of China folk culture. Because it not only has artistic value, but more importantly, it carries a lot of natural and human information.