How to draw New Year's Eve pictures

Can be painted according to different themes and types.

Themes

The themes of New Year's paintings are all-encompassing, totaling more than 2,000 kinds of paintings, which can be called an encyclopedia of folk life. It can be roughly categorized into four aspects:

(1) Gods and Immortals and Auspicious Objects

This is the basic theme of New Year paintings. Gods and Immortals were the main content of early New Year's paintings, and it occupied a large proportion in the paintings. Auspicious objects include auspicious beasts and birds such as lions, tigers, deer, cranes and phoenixes, flowers such as lotus flowers and peonies, and fictional objects such as money trees and treasure pots, etc. These auspicious objects represent auspicious meanings through metaphors, symbols or harmonies, and express the themes of warding off evils and avoiding calamities and welcoming good fortune and good fortune.

(2) Secular Life

Folk artists express real life through their own observations and feelings. This kind of theme is less than others in New Year's paintings. The themes of secular life mainly include people's work, festivals and customs, current events and interesting stories.

(3) Dolls and Beauties

This kind of theme occupies a large proportion of folk New Year's paintings, which expresses people's good wishes for early births, couples and beauty.

(4) Stories and Legends

This part is mostly taken from historical events, folk stories, myths and legends, notebooks and novels as well as operas, etc., of which the proportion of operatic themes is the largest. Commonly seen in this kind of yearbook are Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber, Legend of the White Snake, and Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, etc. People tend to grow through this kind of theme. People often increase their knowledge and receive traditional moral education through these kinds of subjects.

Types

From the point of view of types, New Year's paintings can be roughly categorized into six main types:

(I) Door Gods

New Year's paintings that are pasted on the door in the New Year are called Door Paintings, which are the earliest form of New Year's paintings. It is the earliest form of New Year's paintings. The "door god" is the earliest and the most important category of door paintings.

(2) Auspicious Celebrations

This kind of New Year's paintings directly express the people's desire for a better life. Some common ones are: "Heavenly Officials Provide Good Fortune", "Years of Prosperity", "Full of Fortune", "Officials' Fortune", etc. The most popular type of auspicious New Year paintings is the one with the best quality of life. Auspicious New Year's paintings are the most popular among the people.

(C) style class

Folk life of the performance of the New Year's paintings, is a portrait of the folk artists of real life. More than full of rich flavor of life. After the late Qing Dynasty, there were also current events, customs and humor, such as "the rat married the daughter", "monkey snatching straw hat" and so on can also be categorized into this category.

(D) play out of the class

The performance of the opera story of the New Year's paintings. Its form is similar to comic strips, group paintings or literary illustrations. It emerged in the late Qing Dynasty, all the famous opera stories, will be reflected in the yearbook. For example, "The Group of Heroes", "Stealing the Immortal Herb", "The Yang Family General", "The Story of the Western Wing", "The Lotus Lamp" and so on.

(E) Rune Image Class

The image of gods and charms as a form of expression of a kind of New Year's paintings aimed at driving away evil spirits and bringing good luck. This kind of New Year's paintings has strong religious connotations, and was later attached to the meaning of exorcism and praying for blessings for the people. Unlike the statues of gods in door paintings, the statues of gods in these New Year's paintings have their own niches, some of which are worshipped with incense and some of which are burned as paper horses. Fu is believed to have the function of warding off evil spirits and calming the house, generally composed of words and patterns, such as "Tongan Baofu", "Taiji Bagua Fu" and so on. This type of paintings with the superstitious ideas of the break into the historical relics.

(F) miscellaneous paintings

This category includes light painting (Lantern Festival used to paste the lantern paper), window painting (New Year's paste windows with paper), whisking paper (New Year's paste hanging cupboards, bowls of paper shelves), the table around the paintings (New Year's paste on the side of the table of the Eight Immortals paper), paste wallpaper (New Year's framing of the wall paper), cloth paintings (hanging during the New Year's festivals on the street of the New Year's paintings, commonly known as "hanging"), the New Year's paintings (New Year's paintings, commonly known as "Hanging"). "hanging"), flower and bird characters (Chinese character patterns made up of flower and bird figures, a kind of folk New Year's paintings between calligraphy and painting), and month-plate New Year's paintings (a kind of commercial advertisement that appeared in Shanghai in 1914 and later became New Year's paintings, which are also known as rubbed charcoal paintings because most of them use charcoal brushes for rubbing paintings), and so on.

Example

Introduction of New Year's Paintings: New Year's Paintings are a kind of Chinese paintings, which started from "Door God Paintings" in ancient times, one of the Han Chinese folk arts, and also one of the common folk handicrafts. Qing Guangxu years, officially known as the New Year's paintings, is a unique Chinese Han painting genre, but also the Chinese rural people enjoy the art form. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year to decorate the environment, containing the meaning of blessing the New Year with good luck and celebration, hence the name. Traditional folk New Year's paintings are mostly made of watermarks on wooden boards. The old New Year's paintings have different names because of the size of the painting and the amount of processing. The whole sheet of large called "Palace tip", a paper three open called "San Cai". Processing more and more detailed called "painting Palace tip", "painting Sanjai". Those painted with gold powder in color are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Sanjai". June before the product is called "green version", July and August after the product is called "autumn version".