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New year paintings (new year paintings) is a kind of Chinese paintings, starting from the ancient "door god painting". In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it was formally known as New Year paintings, which is a unique genre of painting in China, and also a popular art form among the rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting on New Year's Day to decorate the environment, and they contain the meaning of blessing the New Year with good luck and joy, so they are called "New Year paintings". Traditional folk New Year's paintings are mostly made of watermarks on wooden boards. The old New Year's paintings have different names because of the size of the painting and the amount of processing. The whole sheet of large called "Palace tip", a paper three open called "San Cai". Processing more and more detailed called "painting Palace tip", "painting Sanjai". Those painted with gold powder are called "Jin Gongjian" and "Jin Sanjai". The products before June are called "green version", and the products after July and August are called "autumn version".

New Year's paintings around the title of the north and south, Beijing called "paintings", "Wei painting", Suzhou called "painting Zhang", Zhejiang called "flower paper", Fujian called "paper", Fujian called "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper", "paper". Flower paper", Fujian called "talisman", Sichuan called "Doufang", to name a few. Today, everywhere on the New Year's paintings gradually agreed to be shortened to "New Year's paintings". New Year's paintings are a kind of folk crafts for the Chinese people to pray for good luck and welcome the new year, and they are a form of folk art that carries people's hopes for a better future. Historically, the folk of the New Year's paintings have a variety of names: the Song Dynasty called "paper painting", the Ming Dynasty called "painting stickers", the Qing Dynasty called "paintings", until the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, the literati Li Guanting wrote in his article During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the literati Li Guangting wrote in an article: "After sweeping the house, we put up New Year's paintings, which is a child's play." The name "New Year's Paintings" was thus established. Traditional New Year paintings are mainly woodcut and watermarked, pursuing a simple style and lively atmosphere, thus the lines of the paintings are simple and the colors are bright. The contents include birds and flowers, fat children, golden chickens, spring cows, myths and legends, and historical stories, expressing people's prayers for a good harvest and their longing for a happy life, with strong national characteristics and local flavor. The four famous "hometowns" of Chinese New Year paintings are: Mianzhu New Year paintings, Taohuayu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong. The New Year paintings produced in these places are very popular among people in both urban and rural areas. The main places of production are Tianjin Yang Liuqing, Suzhou Peach Blossom Dock and Shandong Weifang, etc. Shanghai has "month brand" New Year paintings, and other places such as Sichuan, Fujian, Shanxi, Hebei and Zhejiang. Excellent New Year's paintings (9 pictures) New Year's paintings have simple lines, bright colors and a warm and pleasant atmosphere, such as the spring bull, the year of the morning map, the Jia Sui map, the play of the baby map, the family, watching lanterns, fat dolls, and so on, as well as to the gods and goddesses, historical stories, drama characters as the subject matter. Quite a lot as a door painting for posting, mixed with the concept of "God only protects the house", such as "Shentian Yubi", "Tianguan", "Qin Qiong Jingde", etc., the genre (the style of the painting), the style of the painting, the style of the painting, the style of the painting, the style of the painting, and the style of the painting, the style of the painting. "and so on, the genre (or form) of the door painting (single and folio) four screen strips and horizontal and vertical single open single and so on. Song Dynasty has been recorded on the New Year's Paintings, the earliest woodblock prints seen is the Southern Song Dynasty engraved and printed "Sui dynasty fair presenting the country's face". In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it was especially popular. After the founding of the country, the traditional New Year's paintings on the foundation of the dwarf, colorful, more popular with the people. Pictures of New Year paintings (1)

New Year's paintings are the precursor of Chinese folk art, and also a reflection of the history, life, beliefs and customs of Chinese society. Whenever the Lunar New Year to buy two New Year's paintings pasted on the door, almost every family is so, from the door to the hall, are plastered with a variety of flowers, symbolizing good luck and wealth of New Year's paintings, the reason why the New Year is full of joyful and lively atmosphere, New Year's paintings in which play a certain role. By and large, the more affluent people, in the hall room always like to hang the old life star, Zi Wei Xing, Fu, Lu, Shou and so on. As for the plum orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums and other birds and flowers, naturally, also in the welcome list. For thousands of years, not only is the New Year's Day a colorful embellishment, or cultural circulation, moral education, aesthetic dissemination, the carrier of faith and tools; is also a look at the map to read type of reading material for the public; for that type of current events subject matter of the New Year's Day, but also a kind of people enjoy the media. The content of this encyclopedic folk art, encompassing the spirit of a complete Chinese folk. New Year's paintings are also a dictionary of regional cultures, from which you can find the distinctive cultural personality of each region. These individuality factors can be identified not only in the content of the subject matter, but also in the customary style, colors, lines, and the different flavors of the plates of the various regions where the paintings were made. By the Chinese New Year paintings can recognize all the Chinese folk.