New Year Pictures of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The New Year picture is a kind of painting in China, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting" and is one of the folk crafts in China. New Year pictures are unique to China, and they are also an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment and wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name New Year Pictures.

Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole New Year picture is called "Gongjian" and the paper is called "Sancai". Many meticulous crafts are called "painting the palace tips" and "painting three talents". The colors of gold powder coating are called "Golden Palace Tip" and "Golden Tricks". Products before June are called "green edition", and products after July and August are called "autumn edition". ?

Historical background

New Year pictures are an ancient folk art of Han nationality in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. In the long years, with the evolution of festival customs, the unique symbolic decorative art of China folk has been formed. Its origin can be traced back to the ancient concept of nature worship and belief in gods.

China's early New Year pictures are closely related to two themes: exorcism and praying for good luck. In the process of praying for a bumper harvest, offering sacrifices to ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and other holiday customs, the corresponding New Year decorative arts gradually appeared.

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful.