Where are the four major producing areas of Chinese New Year pictures?

1. The woodcut New Year Pictures of Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng are the birthplace of China woodcut New Year Pictures.

New Year pictures flourished in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later spread or influenced other parts of the country. Due to historical reasons, the woodcut New Year pictures in Zhuxian Town of Kaifeng are considered as the "originator" of the development of woodcut New Year pictures in China. The contents of Kaifeng woodcut New Year pictures mostly reflect the traditional folk culture in the Central Plains, and the artistic style embodies the excellent mainstream style of the coexistence of official and elegant culture and street culture in Kyoto Prefecture.

Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year Pictures are very famous in Beijing.

Yangliuqing in Ming Dynasty was an important town on the South Canal. With the opening of the South Canal, its economy has become increasingly prosperous. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Yangliuqing initially produced the art of woodblock New Year pictures. The earliest painting workshop appeared in the late Ming Dynasty and gradually flourished during the Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty.

Tianjin is the main port of Beijing, which has dual functions of diplomacy and trade. In this way, the art of New Year pictures in Yangliuqing Town is deeply influenced by multiculturalism, and the consumer groups are diversified, including royalty, urban citizens, rural farmers and even foreigners. The technology of half-printing and half-painting makes Yangliuqing New Year pictures closer to meticulous and colorful Chinese paintings, thus forming an elegant and elegant artistic style.

3. Suzhou Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures are outstanding representatives of Jiangnan New Year pictures.

Suzhou Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures were transmitted from Lin 'an (Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty. After more than one hundred years' development, the culture of the Southern Song Dynasty merged the exquisiteness and delicacy of Jiangnan culture, and formed a refined cultural style completely different from the new Central Plains culture at that time.

Suzhou woodblock New Year pictures also benefited directly from the prosperous literati painting and calligraphy art in the south of the Yangtze River in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Zhao Mengfu and Yuan Sizi both live in Suzhou. In Ming Dynasty, Tang Yin's "Four Scholars of Wumen" and Dong Qichang's "Nine Friends of Huating" both lived and created in Suzhou. Their paintings and calligraphy works are famous in the south of the Yangtze River and have a wide influence.

4. Southern woodblock New Year pictures are popular in Lingnan and Bashu.

Woodblock New Year Pictures in Foshan, Guangdong Province are a wonderful flower of Lingnan folk culture in China. South China has always been the home of Hakkas who took refuge in the south of the Central Plains, and naturally brought many things of Central Plains culture, among which woodblock New Year pictures are the most important folk art. ..

In Foshan, a major industrial and commercial town in Lingnan, far away from the Central Plains and close to Guangzhou, the main port of China, the social and cultural life of the people is gradually different from the traditional social and cultural life in the Central Plains. Most adult men do not engage in agriculture, but in industry and commerce and go abroad, so those who stay at home pray for good luck, get rich, and seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Extended data

The theme of New Year pictures is all-encompassing, with more than 2,000 kinds, which can be called an encyclopedia of folk life. It can be roughly divided into four aspects:

(1) immortals and mascots

This is the basic theme of New Year pictures. Immortals are the main content of early New Year pictures, which occupy a large proportion. Mascots include lions, tigers, deer, cranes, phoenixes and other auspicious animals and birds, flowers such as lotus and peony, and novels such as cash cows and cornucopia. They express good luck and wishful thinking through metaphors, symbols or homophones, and express the theme of exorcising evil spirits and welcoming wealth and happiness.

(2) Secular life

Folk artists express their real life through their own observations and feelings. This theme is less than other themes in New Year pictures. The theme of secular life mainly includes people's life and work, holiday customs, current affairs anecdotes and so on.

(3) doll beauty

This theme occupies a large proportion in folk New Year pictures, expressing people's good wishes for the early birth of your son, the love between husband and wife and the return of beautiful women.

(4) Stories and legends

This part is mostly about historical events, folk stories, myths and legends, note novels and operas, among which opera is the biggest theme. Common New Year pictures include Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, Water Margin, Dream of Red Mansions, Legend of the White Snake, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, etc. People often gain knowledge and receive traditional moral education through such subjects.