China's New Year pictures have a long history. Do you know when the earliest New Year pictures were made?

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art unique to China culture. In China and neighboring countries influenced by China culture, New Year pictures will be posted during the Spring Festival. Putting up New Year pictures, eating jiaozi and setting off firecrackers are important parts of China's New Year culture. Because of its rich theme, bright colors, elegant style and easy to understand, its content is mainly festive, covering all aspects of China's traditional culture, and to a certain extent reflecting different historical cultures and customs in different periods and regions, it has become an indispensable part of people's spiritual and cultural life.

New Year pictures originated in Han Dynasty, developed in Tang and Song Dynasties and prevailed in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The earliest door painting originated in ancient times and was first called "door painting". There are records in ancient books, such as Jingchu Chunqiu, Tokyo Dream of China, and Wulin Old Stories. In the history of folk New Year pictures, there are many names: "paper painting" in Song Dynasty, "painting paste" in Ming Dynasty and "painting" in Qing Dynasty. It was not until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty that Li Guangting, a scholar, wrote in the poem "Take off the fragrance of clothes": "Sweep the house and put up New Year pictures for children's ears." So, the name of this painting is like this.

Judging from the content of New Year pictures, they are generally healthy and auspicious, praising the rich. For example, "Carp yue longmen", "There are plenty of fish every year", "Getting rich", "Happy to have a son", "Three friends at the age of cold" and so on. The content of New Year pictures is constantly developing with the changes of the times and the development and progress of society. In recent years, in the past, the god of wealth, Fu Lushou, Samsung, fairies, fat people and opera characters were the main contents of New Year pictures. Now, the gold ingots and jewels in the past New Year pictures have become RMB, even USD, digital technology products in recent years. To some extent, New Year pictures also reflect people's social mentality and emotions.

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