Composition, disappearing New Year pictures

New Year pictures have gradually disappeared from our lives.

Many years ago, during the Spring Festival, not only Xinhua Bookstore hung New Year pictures everywhere, but also stalls selling New Year pictures in streets, alleys and market towns were one after another. They are hung on the roadside walls and spread evenly on the ground. Which one do you like? You negotiate the price, pay the money, wrap it in old newspapers, tie it with string, put it in a bamboo basket, or carry it home by the children.

If you can't take care of your home on weekdays, you must clean it up thoroughly during the New Year. The newspaper posted on the wall last year was bitten by greedy insects, so I took it all off, made a pot of paste and posted a new one. Needless to say, this is the children's job. Newspapers are old newspapers bought by adults who don't know how many words. The children read while posting. This news is not new. Popular science knowledge, health lectures, jokes and cartoons will not be out of date. It will be posted outside after reading it. After the wall is pasted, when the paste is dry, press the New Year pictures one by one with thumbtacks. A child stands on a stool and presses it, while a child looks from below. Don't stick it askew. Draw at the same height and at the same distance. What pictures are posted in what position is also very particular. Hanging in the middle of the gate is a nave, which is much bigger than ordinary New Year pictures. It has a shaft up and down, two pairs on each side, and two pairs also have shafts. Most people hang a portrait of the chairman, or a composite portrait of the chairman and the prime minister. That's right: the four seas are raging, and the five continents shake the thunder. People with old people hang a birthday girl, with a long forehead, a silvery white beard and crutches. There is a gourd hanging on the crutch, followed by a pine tree. Under the tree, a crane stood on one leg and the other leg curled up under the abdomen. It says: Happiness is like flowing water in the East China Sea, and longevity is younger than Nanshan. There are also mountains and rivers hanging down, distant mountains near the water, and clouds around, just like a fairyland. There are two paintings on each side of the nave, including those of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, those of Mei, Zhu, Ju and Lan, and those of the four seasons. Below the main hall are a few, without exception, four volumes of Mao Xuan, with a ceramic portrait of Chairman Mao on it. The chairman is kind and serene.

The New Year pictures on the walls on both sides of the main house are lively and rich in content. At that time, there were popular movies, such as comic books, with pictures and subtitles. One picture has eight small pictures, and two or four pictures are a complete movie. Our family posted pictures of Shaolin Temple, heroes from ancient times, Du Shiniang, wildfires and spring breeze fighting against ancient cities, and the legend of the white snake. There are flowers, birds, insects, fish, scenery and so on. Golden pheasant should be matched with peony, which is called icing on the cake; There must be magpies on the branches of plum blossoms, which is called jubilant. In the girls' boudoir, there are movie stars or movie stills such as Zhang Yu, Chen Chong, Liu Xiaoqing and Fu Yiwei, and there are naked and chubby dolls riding red carp at the bedside of the newlyweds.

Every household changes New Year pictures, and watching New Year pictures has become an important part of New Year greetings. On the first day of New Year's Day, the children who entered the school ran around the village to pay New Year's greetings, and every household had to look at the New Year pictures before going home. Going to relatives' homes is also eating melon seeds, peanuts or sugar while looking at pictures. Some words drawn in the movie can only be seen by kneeling on the bench. It is not enough to read the content, but also depends on the copyright description in the lower right corner of the New Year pictures, which printing house printed it and how much it was priced.

New Year pictures reflect the general interests, educational level and even aesthetic taste of families. People's aesthetic taste is getting higher and higher, or they pretend to be higher and higher. Celebrity calligraphy and painting, pseudonym calligraphy and painting, or non-celebrity calligraphy and painting are slowly hanging at home. White walls have replaced mud walls, so there is no need to put up newspapers. Most people don't hang anything, or hang plastic paintings and shoddy fake oil paintings once and for all, and don't have to change them for several years.

The colorful New Year pictures with different contents and the scenery on these walls add a lot of festive and lively atmosphere to our life. Now people are lamenting that the Chinese New Year is getting less and less interesting, and the New Year pictures are drifting away, which also takes away a large part of the flavor of the Chinese New Year.