Introduction of Jiejiang New Year Paintings

Woodblock prints (Jiejiang Nianhua), a traditional art of Jiejiang County, Sichuan Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

Jiejiang New Year Paintings, as the authentic peasant paintings in Southwest Sichuan Province, are rich and colorful in content, drawn from folklore without being bound to real life, not limited by time and space, highly generalized and exaggerated in the content of expression, and it absorbs the traditional modeling techniques of murals and woodblock prints.

The composition is full, the real and the imaginary, the characters are gathered and dispersed, well-proportioned and reasonable, the modeling is exaggerated, the expression is vivid, and it has the expression of Romanticism. Now, Jiejiang New Year's Paintings are generally based on the god of the generals, the characters' facial expression is dignified, and the clothing line is thick and thick, which is unique, and in the successive excavations, the New Year's Paintings based on the historical stories and folklore were found; and there are satirical novelty New Year's Paintings on the real life.

The New Year paintings based on the scenery along the Qingyi River of Jiejiang are rich and colorful in themes and contents, with real scenes and fictional stories integrated into them, which are the treasures of the traditional cultural products of the Han people of Jiejiang and have very precious historical and cultural value and artistic contribution value.

Jiejiang New Year's Paintings Origin:

Jiejiang New Year's Paintings originated in the Wanli and Tianqi periods of the Ming Dynasty, and the woodblock New Year's Paintings of Jiejiang are simple and simple in shape, with bold lines and bright colors, and have a strong local flavor and local cultural characteristics, distinctive styles, and in 2008, Jiejiang woodblock New Year's Paintings were listed as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.

Jiejiang deep cultural heritage, is the famous hometown of painting and calligraphy paper, and Sichuan's engraving and printing industry is developed, in Chengdu gave birth to the world's first paper money "cross", engraved overprinting technology, jiejiang New Year's Paintings used to this day, after more than 480 years of development, jiejiang New Year's Paintings performance of the content is increasingly full of material from the folk but not stick to the reality, peaceful and peaceful, and not stick to the reality. The most important feature of these paintings is that they are peaceful and celebratory, praying for wealth and peace.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Woodblock Prints