What is the theme of the New Year pictures?

In the early Wuqiang New Year pictures, gods were the main paintings. It is said that "ten-year paintings are divided into seven parts", so many kitchen gods, heaven and earth gods and door gods were printed. Later, the content and theme of New Year pictures gradually enriched. Among them are Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Yue Biography, Fisherman Killed Son, etc. There are also some landscape paintings and peasant paintings, such as the scenery of Zhao Zhouqiao and West Lake, the agricultural map of 24 solar terms, and three years' early knowledge. There are also myths and legends such as The Legend of the White Snake and The Legend of the Eight Immortals.

During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, revolutionary literary and art workers combined with Wuqiang New Year pictures artists to create a large number of revolutionary New Year pictures, such as Anti-Japanese Glory, Mass Production Movement, Spring Farming Mutual Aid, and Good News of Meritorious Service. These New Year pictures have become weapons to educate, mobilize the people, and attack and disintegrate the enemy. During the war of liberation, supporting the front line, sending children to join the army, and couples being literate, the white-haired girl became a sensational work, and people rushed to buy it. Wuqiang New Year pictures have clear composition, vivid expressions, bright and elegant pictures and fine production. In recent years, Wuqiang New Year pictures artists and artists have created many New Year pictures while inheriting the traditional woodblock New Year pictures. Some New Year pictures are made of high-grade products such as silk screen printing, artificial coloring, woodcut overprint of rice paper, and some are framed with silk edges to make paintings and axial paintings. These exquisite New Year pictures are simple and beautiful, and they are a gorgeous flower in China woodblock New Year pictures.