What are the four aspects of New Year pictures?

New Year pictures are divided into four aspects: fairy mascots, secular life, dolls and beauties, and stories and legends.

The theme of New Year pictures is all-encompassing, which can be roughly divided into four aspects: immortals and mascots, secular life, dolls and beauties, stories and legends. New Year pictures are divided into door gods, auspicious celebrations, customs, plays, symbols and miscellaneous pictures.

Woodblock New Year pictures in Mianzhu, Sichuan, Taohuawu, Jiangsu, Yangliuqing, Tianjin and Yangjiabu, Weifang, Shandong have a long history and are known as the four masters of Chinese New Year pictures.

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New Year pictures are auspicious images in ancient China, belonging to a kind of Chinese painting. It originated from the ancient "door-god painting", which is one of the Han folk arts and one of the common folk handicrafts.

During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, it was officially called New Year Pictures, which was a unique painting school of Han nationality in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks.