Intangible Cultural Heritage of Beach Head New Year Pictures

Tantou New Year Picture is one of the Han folk crafts in Tantou Town, Longhui (now Shaoyang City), Baoqing, Hunan Province.

Tantou New Year Picture is the only hand-carved watermark New Year Picture in Hunan Province, which was produced in Tantou Town, Longhui (now Shaoyang), Baoqing, Hunan Province. From the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties to the early Republic of China, the beach New Year pictures gradually formed their own unique artistic style: gorgeous and moist colors, Gu Zhuo, exaggerated and full and personalized modeling methods, pure local materials and unique techniques.

Make the work have the artistic effect of relief. From the selection of papermaking raw materials, paper manufacturing, bottom brushing, engraving, seven seals and seven hand-paintings, it takes more than 20 processes to make a beach New Year picture. Everything from hand-made paper to finished New Year pictures is made in one place, which is extremely rare in Chinese New Year pictures.

The characteristics of beach New Year pictures:

Beach New Year pictures, with their bright red colors and rough and exaggerated shapes, reflect farmers' simple, honest, healthy and optimistic thoughts, emotions and social phenomena, which has certain practical and theoretical value for the artistic creation and the development of folk art in China.

In terms of modeling concept, the beach New Year pictures are exaggerated and rough, and they are between likeness and dissimilarity. They seek God instead of "shape" (not the proportion of real body), giving people an all-round sense of nature, such as "Qin" and "Weichi Gong" in the beach New Year pictures, which are only four heads high. Beach New Year pictures depict the word "God" in a concise way, with powerful broadsword and eyebrows.

A lion's nose, elegant sideburns, broad shoulders, strong limbs, whip and mace in his hand, as well as abdominal armor and soap boots vividly show the mighty image of the characters, making people feel tall and burly, strong rather than short, catering to people's psychology of begging for peace.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beach New Year Pictures