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Chuxian Town woodblock prints

Zhuxian Town woodblock prints have a history of more than 800 years, was born in the Tang Dynasty, the rise of the Song Dynasty, the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, a long history, a long history, known as China's woodblock prints of the ancestor of the New Year's Eve.

Zhuxianzhen woodblock print production using a combination of woodblock and skeleton plate, watermark sets of colors, a wide variety of raw materials used for the process of shelling, paper, colorful, solemn and deep, most of the themes and content taken from historical drama, novels, myths and folklore. New Year's paintings are rich in local flavor, strong folk interest, with unique local colors and simple and ancient national style, is a folk arts and crafts in a wonderful.

Zhu Xian Town New Year paintings are full of composition, bold and simple lines, simple and exaggerated modeling, and fresh and bright colors. Characters with big heads and small bodies, both comedic effect and feel proportional and comfortable. Color to minerals, plants as raw materials, grinding their own handmade pigments, grinding out the pigment color is very pure, to which the printing of the New Year's paintings bright and vivid, long time does not fade.