What are the contents of New Year's paintings?

Contents include flowers and birds, fat children, golden roosters, spring cows, myths and legends and historical stories, etc., which express people's mood of praying for a good harvest and longing for a happy life, and have a strong national character and local flavor.

Traditional New Year's paintings are mainly woodcut and watermarked, pursuing a simple and simple style and a lively atmosphere, so the lines of the paintings are simple and the colors are vivid.

Most of the New Year's paintings are based on things such as auspiciousness, festivity, joy and beauty, or on allusions and idioms, which have plots and are easy to understand. The contents of their materials are extremely wide, such as historical stories, myths and legends, absorbing characters, world customs, as well as landscapes, flowers and birds.

Nianhua paintings have many themes, which can be roughly divided into several categories:

1, secular life: busy crops, fishermen, celebrating the Lantern Festival and so on.

2. Historical stories: Yue Fei's revenge for his country, the Three Heroes' Battle of Lu Bu, and King Wen's visit to Xian.

3. Myths and legends: Tianhe Matching, The Legend of the White Snake, Magu Xianshou, Dongfang Shuo stealing peaches, etc.

4. Celebration of auspiciousness: the unicorn descends, five sons of the material, three dollars in a row, five grains of good harvest.

5, the gods and goddesses of paper and horses: the god of wealth, the god of harmony, the god of the door, the god of the stove, the goddess of delivery, and so on.

6, humor and satire: three monkeys hot pig, playful, child anger, and so on.