Why are children holding carp in New Year pictures called New Year pictures dolls?

Children holding carp in New Year pictures are called New Year pictures dolls.

The children holding carp in New Year pictures are white and fat dolls, which means "prosperous people" and are loved by people.

The moral of this New Year picture is that there are fish every year, which is a homonym of "more than one year". It is one of the most representative languages of China's traditional good luck and blessing. If it is represented by a picture, it can be regarded as a traditional auspicious symbol.

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The New Year picture is a kind of Chinese painting, which started from the ancient "door-god painting", one of the folk arts in China 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 genre in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, and contain the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name.

The perfect combination of artistic style and cultural connotation of New Year pictures expresses people's aesthetic orientation and cultural prayer, which is an important reason for the deep-rooted and enduring New Year pictures.

As a folk New Year greeting, New Year pictures are full of celebrations. Therefore, most folk New Year pictures use bright and hot colors such as red rhubarb, paying attention to the expression of interest and modeling, and the characters are vivid and lovely and full of vitality. It embodies the wisdom of the people and forms a profound traditional culture.