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The author of the New Year's painting is

Tianjin Yangliuqing's representative work

Every New Year's Eve, every household in the northern part of China puts up a picture of a big, fat boy with a smile on his face, holding a big carp in his red cheeks. This kind of New Year's picture is called "Yearly Fortune". It is important to know that this "Nian Nian Yu" is the representative work of Tianjin Yang Liu Qing, which is one of the finest Chinese New Year paintings in China. Tianjin Yang Liuqing New Year's Paintings, along with Suzhou Taohuayu, Shandong Weifang and Sichuan Mianzhu New Year's Paintings, is one of China's four major New Year's Paintings production area.

Expanded Information

"Year after year" this yearbook has a profound meaning, simply put, it is to take the "fish" and "Yu" homophonic, to send a message to the "fish" and "Yu". New Year's paintings embody the old ancestor's admonition to future generations:

Keeping and carrying forward the old generation's hard work and simplicity, diligence and thrift, admonishing us that life should have a plan, can not eat all the use up, so as to achieve the "yearly surplus". Nowadays, the symbol of "Yearly surplus" not only appears on New Year's paintings, but also on paper cuttings and dinner tables. Every New Year's Eve, "Nian Nian Yu" has become the New Year's Eve dinner of almost every family, and has become a symbol of people's hope for a better life.