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What are the famous New Year pictures in China?

I. Zhuxian Town, Kaifeng

The woodcut New Year pictures of Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng are the originator of China woodcut New Year pictures. It is mainly distributed in Kaifeng, Zhuxian Town and its surrounding areas, and the New Year pictures in Yangliuqing, Tianjin, Taohuawu, Suzhou and Weifang, Shandong are all influenced by it. It is characterized by exquisite color, rich and bright color, lasting fastness, strong contrast, rough Gu Zhuo, fullness and compactness, and strong versatility. Composition with traditional methods, the picture has its own theme and time, the object is obvious, and the characters in the scene are cleverly arranged, showing a uniform and symmetrical aesthetic feeling.

Second, Tianjin Yangliuqing

Tianjin Yangliuqing woodblock New Year Pictures is one of the famous traditional New Year Pictures in China. It not only has a long history, but also has distinctive local characteristics and is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people. Its material content is extremely extensive.

Such as historical stories, myths and legends, opera figures, secular customs, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Especially those closely related to people's lives, such as busy farming, Lantern Festival, Qiu Jiang Evening Crossing, visiting friends in Yinan Village, Happy New Year, happy family, fishing girls, women's studies with the nature of current affairs news, etc.

Third, Jiangsu Taohuawu

Taohuawu is a place name in Suzhou, located under the northern city of Nagato. Suzhou has been a scenic spot since ancient times. Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures are the main folk woodblock New Year pictures in southern China, and they are also called "Southern Peach and Northern Poplar" together with Tianjin Yangliuqing. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the famous painter Tang Yin (Bohu) built the Peach Blossom Temple here, which became famous from then on.

Fourth, the pavilion Yangjiabu

Hanting District, Weifang, Shandong Province has a long history and a rich collection of people. The cold pavilion, called the cold country in ancient times, was built by Han Nuo in Xia Dynasty. Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Picture in Hanting is a wonderful flower in China folk art treasure house, which is well-known at home and abroad for its rich local flavor and simple and distinctive artistic style.

V Mianzhu, Sichuan

Mianzhu was named Mianzhu in the early Han Dynasty because of its specialty Mianzhu. Mianzhu New Year pictures have distinctive local characteristics. Composition emphasizes symmetry, integrity, fullness, urgency, diversity and unity. The color is simple and lively, which constitutes a prosperous and enthusiastic artistic effect. Use lines to emphasize conciseness, fluency, combination of rigidity and softness, alternation of density, and strong sense of rhythm. Modeling often uses exaggeration, variation, symbol, implication and other techniques to make the artistic image vivid and touching.