All the information about New Year s paintings, what are the contents of New Year s paintings?

The content includes flowers and birds, fat children, golden roosters, spring cattle, myths and legends and historical stories, etc., expressing people's desire for a bumper harvest and their longing for a happy life, with strong national characteristics and local flavor.

Traditional New Year paintings are mainly woodcut watermarks, pursuing a simple style and lively atmosphere, so the lines painted are simple and the colors are bright.

Most of the New Year's paintings are auspicious, festive, joyful, beautiful and other things, or allusions and idioms as the theme, with plots and easy to understand. It draws on a wide range of materials, such as historical stories, myths and legends, people, world customs, landscapes, flowers and birds.

There are many themes in New Year's paintings, which can be roughly divided into several categories:

1. Secular life: busy crops, fishermen's entertainment, Lantern Festival, etc.

2. Historical stories: Yue Fei served the country, Lu Bu of the Three Heroes, King Wen visited Xian, etc.

3. Myths and legends: Tianhe, White Snake, Magu Birthday, Dongfang Shuo stealing peaches, etc.

4. Festive and auspicious categories: Qilin descends Rui, Wuzi Deng, Lianzhong Sanyuan, Wugu Fengdeng, etc.

5. Gods and paper horses: the god of wealth and martial arts, the two immortals of harmony, the god of the door, the king of the stove, the mother of the child, etc.

6. Humorous and sarcastic: three monkeys hot pigs, witticisms, children's anger, etc.

1. New Year Paintings, a kind of Chinese painting, began in ancient times as the "Door God Painting", which is one of the Chinese folk arts and one of the common folk crafts. New Year painting is a unique genre of one-rock painting in China, and it is also an art form that is popular among the common people in rural China. Most of them are used to post during the New Year, decorate the environment, and contain the meaning of blessing the auspicious and festive New Year, hence the name.

2. Traditional folk imitation paintings are mostly made of wooden board watermarks. Old New Year's paintings have different names depending on the size of the painting and the amount of processing. The whole big one is called "Gong Jian", and the one with three pieces of paper is called "Sancai".

The processing is more and more detailed, called "painting the tip of the palace" and "painting three talents". The color is painted with gold powder called "Jin Gong Jian", and the rent jujube fiber "Jin Sancai". The products before June are called "green version", and the products after July and August are called "autumn version".

Chinese folk New Year paintings, door gods, commonly known as "happy paintings", in the old days, people were popular in the indoor New Year's paintings, and the door gods were pasted on the door, in order to wish the New Year auspicious, drive away the evil and welcome the auspicious. At the end of each year, every household in urban and rural areas posts New Year's pictures, door gods and couplets, etc., which take on a new look and add to the festive atmosphere of the festival. This custom is still prevalent in the vast rural areas of China.

In Chinese history, the woodblock New Year paintings of Mianzhu in Sichuan, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Weifang in Shandong and Taohuawu in Jiangsu are the most famous in the country and are known as the "Four Great New Year Paintings" in China.

Mianzhu New Year paintings are named after Mianzhu County, Sichuan Province, which is the hometown of bamboo paper. Mianzhu New Year paintings are distinguished from other New Year paintings by being good at color painting, and have strong national characteristics and distinctive local characteristics. It originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and entered a prosperous period in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

During the Qianlianglong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty, there were many New Year painting workshops in Mianzhu Township. The products are sold in Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qingdao and Sichuan, and are also exported to India, Japan, Hong Kong and Macao and other countries and regions. The composition of Mianzhu New Year paintings emphasizes symmetry, completeness, balance, fullness, and clear primary and secondary; The color adopts contrasting techniques, and the color is simple, gorgeous, strong and bright, which constitutes a warm artistic effect of red; The lines pay attention to the combination of rigidity and softness, smooth and smooth, sparse and dense, with a distinct sense of rhythm; The exaggerated, deformed, symbolic, and allegorical shapes have a more humorous and lively effect.

Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Painting Taohuawu is located in the north of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Taohuawu New Year Painting originated from the engraving and printing process of the Song Dynasty, evolved from the embroidered image, and developed into a folk art school in the Ming Dynasty, and the Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty were in their heyday. The printing of Taohuawu New Year's pictures uses both coloring and color overlay, the composition is symmetrical and plump, the engraving is beautiful, and the colors are gorgeous. It is called the "Gusu version" by the folk painting circle.

Tianjin Yangliu Youth Painting Yangliuqing is located in the west of Tianjin, its woodblock New Year paintings began in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, from the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng, Qianlong to the early Guangxu period is the most popular. Dozens of villages around Yang Liuqing also painted New Year paintings. The characteristics of Yangliu Youth Painting are:

The combination of woodcut watermarks and hand-painted paintings retains the techniques of folk painting and is influenced by the Qing Dynasty painting academy; Mostly based on old dramas, beauties, fat babies, etc., the composition is plump, the lines are neat, the colors are bright, and the heads and faces of the characters are mostly pink and golden, rich in decoration.

Weifang Yangjiabu New Year Painting Yangjiabu woodblock New Year painting was founded in the late Ming Dynasty, all by hand, made in a traditional way, the early influence of Yangliu youth painting, the Qing Dynasty reached its peak during the Guangxu period, popular in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Yangjiabu New Year paintings have a wide range of genres, rich imagination, reuse of primary colors, rough lines, and simple style.

The one who paints the New Year is not a painter, but a painter.

It is a folk craft.

New Year's paintings are ancient folk paintings, and they are generally not used now.