The difference between New Year pictures and cartoons.

New Year pictures are a kind of Chinese paintings. The "Door God Painting", officially called New Year Painting, which began in Guangxu period of the ancient Qing Dynasty, is a unique painting genre in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. It is often used to post posts and decorate the environment during the New Year, which means auspicious and festive New Year, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly based on wooden watermarks, while traditional New Year pictures are mainly based on woodcut watermarks, which pursue simple style and lively atmosphere, so the lines drawn are simple and colorful. The content includes flowers and birds, fat children, golden roosters, spring cattle, myths and legends, historical stories and so on. It expresses people's longing for a bumper harvest and a happy life, and has strong national characteristics and local flavor.

As an art form, comics originated in Europe. Comic painting requires exaggeration and deformation, and its form is wider than that of comics in the usual sense. Emphasize satire, wit and humor, but do not attach a text description.