Text and picture/Wang Yuanchang
The year is gone with the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to the summer. In the sun, thousands of households always replace the old charms with new peaches.
——”New Year’s Day” by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty
In the Lunar New Year, different regions have different folk customs; different families have different expectations. But rooted in the heart Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, the feelings of praying for a better life are interconnected and difficult to change. The artistic expression that carries the profound feelings of Yan and Huang, interprets the folk customs and beautifies people’s lives, is indispensable for colorful New Year pictures.
The origin of Chinese New Year paintings can be traced back to the patron sacred paintings such as exorcism and evil spirits in the Qin and Han Dynasties or earlier, including Tao Talismans, Zhong Kui statues, Tianxing PostsCinema 1950 witch cloth draw, etc. By the Song Dynasty, with the rise and maturity of the woodblock printing technology of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, New Year paintings gradually evolved from the patron sacred paintings to colored and colored woodblocked New Year paintings, which was the first precedent for woodblock New Year paintings in the history of Chinese painting.
In recent years, there have been woodblock New Year pictures from 17 major domestic production areas including Tianjin Yangliuqing, Jiangsu Suzhou, Shandong Weifang, Sichuan Mianzhu, Henan Kaifeng, Shaanxi Fengxiang, and other 17 domestic intangible cultural heritage list.
In my more than ten years of searching for New Year’s paintings, I discovered that the birthplace of Chinese woodblock New Year’s paintings, the New Year’s paintings in “Zhuxian Town” in Kaifeng, have a strong aroma of yin and yellow, full of emotions, and vivid folk customs and folk customs.
The Suzhou Taohuawu and Tianjin Yangliu Youth Paintings, which are praised by the world as “Taohuawu in the south and willows in the north and south, are the most dazzling. They create based on real life, highlighting the character characteristics of the characters, and the pictures are prosperous and lively, full of expressiveness and attractiveness.
TodayKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw, woodblock New Year pictures with a long history and classic Chinese cultural heritage have been picked up by more and more people, from the past posting on the four walls of the house to exquisitely produced and framed artworks, bidding farewell to the old and welcome the new, including daily houses, newlyweds, etc., and hanging halls and shops.
Especially, some courtyard houses in the streets and alleys of the New Year pictures, “always replace new peaches with old charms”, New Year pictures and Cinema 1950 witch clothes drawThe door god posted outside the two courtyard doors forms a beautiful New Year scenery with Jirui’s couplets and festive red lanterns. It highlights people’s yearning for a better life and exudes the inseparable youth in the hearts of the people.
The earliest form of New Year’s paintings is the door paintings posted on the door of the New Year, namely the “door god”, with different colors and techniques in different regions. Figure 1 is the door god New Year’s painting created by Yin Guoquan, the national inheritor of Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year’s paintings; Figure 2 is the door god New Year’s paintings of Yang Liuqing; Figure 3 is the door god New Year’s paintings created by Tai Liping, the national inheritor of Fengxiang woodblock New Year’s paintings; Figure 4 is the door god New Year’s paintings created by Yang Fuyuan, the national inheritor of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year’s paintings. Zhuxian Town, Kaifeng
Having a precedent for woodblock New Year paintings
In ancient times, Zhuxian Town was ranked one of the “Four Ancient Towns in China”. What made its reputation famous was the woodblock New Year paintings that were popular here and passed down through the ages. Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year paintings, as an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese art, were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The day I went to Zhuxian Town, I caught a rare heavy snow in Kaifeng. The flying snowflakes in the sky made the morning of the ancient town a few minutes less The hustle and bustle is the snow that some shops and vendors are cleaning up the door. This ancient town that has been covered with wind and rain for thousands of years, it is impossible to imagine its glory.
The Yuewang Temple, built here in the Ming Dynasty, is located on the side of Yuemiao Street, which is a wooden New Year painting street in the ancient town. Now many old wooden New Year painting brands have been restored. On this old street, you can not only feel the charm of traditional wooden New Year paintings, but you can buy valuable works by your favorite New Year painting craftsmen for a few dozen yuan.
According to historical records, Zhuxianzhen woodblock New Year paintings, known as the “ancestor of Chinese woodblock New Year paintings”, was born in the Tang Dynasty, prospered in the Song Dynasty, and during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.There are more than 300 New Year painting workshops in the period. The opening of the canal made Zhuxian Town a commercial center in the Central Plains, and the sales of New Year pictures flourished. Many merchants gathered here from the current Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Ningxia and other regions to buy two-thirds of the country’s New Year pictures.
The prosperity of woodblock New Year paintings in Zhuxian Town is inseparable from the fertile land of Kaifeng. Kaifeng during the Northern Song Dynasty was the center of politics, economy and culture in the country. The huge urban class activated the demand for folk culture Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, providing a rich soil and market for the creation of New Year pictures.
Meng Yuanlao’s “Dream of Tokyo” records that “in recent years, the market has printed door gods, peach boards, peach talismans, etc..” The “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” depicting the social life of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the guise of the “Wang Family Paper Horse” shop near the beginning of the volume is clearly identifiable.
Strive on a New Year Painting Street close to the ancient canal, the old houses on both sides are mottled, and the rugged eaves show the vicissitudes of the years it has experienced, and the original flavor is full of nostalgia.
A second-floor pavement is high with the “protect” with black background and yellow characters, and the “Tiancheng Old Store” is written on it. There is no decoration in the old house with peeling paint. The four walls are full of New Year pictures, including the mighty door god, the iron-faced and curly bearded Zhong Kui’s head, the five sons win the championship, the pine crane prolongs life, the lotus gives birth to a noble son and other representative themes.
Yin Guoquan, the fifth generation descendant of “Tiancheng Old Shop”, was dressed simply, sitting in front of the stage where various colors of paints were piled up. With the help of his grandson, he repeatedly applied different paints and printed New Year pictures in color. It took the old man a month to put a newly engraved carved version on the stage.
The iron rack next to it is full of colorful greenery, and the New Year pictures that have just been printed and dried are very beautiful. Behind the counter is Mr. Yin’s wife, and the production desk is connected to the counter, a typical traditional workshop.
The peak period of New Year’s picture production begins in early December every year. The picture shows the full Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawYin Guoquan, who is obsessed with printing New Year pictures
In Yin Guoquan’s view, the truly authentic traditional skills are in danger of losing. Over the past few decades, he has inherited and created more than 300 sets of carved plates and more than 1,500 pieces. He said: “The paints I printed in New Year’s paintings are carefully processed and cooked with plants such as pine smoke, locust rice, and Zhangdan. Although it takes time and effort, it is more colored than the current industrial pigments.” “The things passed down by the older generation cannot be lost. My two sons and grandsons are heirs.” Looking at his hands that are slightly rougher than ordinary people, and the wrinkles on his face being gullyed by the years, a kind of shock filled his heart.
The “Tiancheng Old Store” connected to the counter of the production stand is full of vicissitudes of time. The content of the New Year paintings in Zhuxian Zhenmu is mostly based on the familiar historical stories and myths and legends. The printing technique is mainly woodblocked water color overprinting, six-page set, and some sets are as many as nine-page. The colors of red, yellow, green and purple are bright and exaggerated. The character has a big head and a small body, looking rustic and cute. Most characters use white faces and red eyelids on their faces, which is its unique technique and is also the representative style of Zhuxianzhen woodblock New Year pictures.
The vigorous and ancient lines, simple and symmetrical patterns, and the rough and thick atmosphere reflect the strong local art style of Zhuxian Town, the hinterland of the Central Plains. Mr. Lu Xun once commented on the woodblock New Year pictures of Zhuxian Town, “These woodblocks are simple, with thick and powerful engravings, and they are not stained with powder. The characters are not charming, the colors are strong and very local.”
The “Zhuxian Town” 1960 witch clothes released in 2008 Draw Woodblock New Year’s Pictures” special stamp, the content is taken from the classic story, Sanniang teaches her children, return home with a full load, and Feng Xianglan. The real-life theme park Qingming Shanghe Park, which was opened to the public in 1998, is located on the west bank of Longting Lake, Kaifeng City. It is a realistic painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan as a model and with Song culture as the theme.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 1990 cloth draw Large historical and cultural park, now a 5A scenic spot.
The Zhuxian Town Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawwood-printed New Year pictures are sold all year round in the park. You can learn about the traditional wood-printed New Year pictures production in the retro New Year pictures store. Visitors can not only appreciate and purchase, but also participate in the interaction on site.
In the ancient and vigorous Zhuxian Town woodblock New Year pictures, red, yellow, green and purple are bright and thick, and the characters are exaggerated. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw‘s head is big and small, and look Babaylan 1990 cloth draw‘s rustic and cute
Suzhou Taohuawu
carries beautiful expectations
SuCinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe ancient city of Suzhou is gentle and colorful and has a thousand years of cultural heritage, giving Taohuawu woodblock New Year paintings a brilliant and outstanding character. During the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, the prosperous period of Taohuawu New Year paintings. Hundreds of painters and printing craftsmen gathered here. The New Year paintings were sold to Southeast Asia, and “Taohuawu” became synonymous with Suzhou woodblock New Year paintings.
Looking through some books recording Suzhou’s cultural tourism or walking in historical districts such as Shantang Street and Pingjiang Road, you can see the shops of “Taohuawu New Year Pictures”. There is also a Taohuawu Street in Suzhou, which is a stone road that is not wide. Houses with pink walls and black tiles are arranged on both sides. The hanging lanterns and Spring Festival couplets exude the joy of the New Year.
In the shops on Taohuawu Street, it is not difficult to find the shadow of New Year pictures. In Puyuan on Xiaochangqiao Road, which intersects Taohuawu Avenue, the Taohuawu Woodcut Museum was found. Walking in, a fresh and elegant garden comes into view, and the New Year Painting Museum is quietly hidden in the lush green shade.
A family in Suzhou can be painted by people. The museum currently collects hundreds of ancient New Year pictures. The picture of “Fu” and “Family Love” and “Magu’s Birthday Pictures”, “Shuangmei Love Flower Pictures, and “Sui Miraculous Views” are displayed. In the real scene display part, the living room is covered with “Three Stars Highlights” and “Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea”, which means that there are all guests; in the bedroom, “Flowers Bloom and Rich” and “Give A Premium” are pasted, which means that the couple is harmonious and beautiful, which reflects the ancient people. The New Year pictures of life are loved by modern people.
I saw a table with engraving, engraving platform, printing platform, brown brush, brown rub, fist knife and other engraving tools. Several inheritors in their early thirties were engraving meticulously. Holding a knife in their right hand, skillfully carving lines on the woodblock, sweat ejaculated from the tip of their nose, but they didn’t care to wipe it off, and their concentration looked like making the most precious treasure in the world.
The ancient Taohuawu historical classic woodblock New Year painting “Flowers Blooming and Rich”
According to reports, a Taohuawu woodblock New Year painting is not completed by a painter alone. It requires three steps to draw, engrave and print, and is created by a collective creation. Compared with New Year paintings in other regions, the characteristic of Taohuawu New Year painting is that it relies entirely on the printing plate printing. After printing, there is no stroke, and it is known for its engraving skills.
A fist knife that is just clenched by the palm can evolve into four methods: starting knife, placing knife, picking knife, and re-knife. It pays attention to “precise knives, picking knife, and shoveling the bottom”. The lines should be engraved naturally and vigorously, clean and neat. Generally speaking, it takes 5 years to learn the drawing of Taohuawu New Year paintings, 4 years to engrave, and 2 years to print.
One of the main steps of traditional Chinese woodblock New Year paintings
In early 2008, a New Year painting “A Tube of Harmony” created during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty was successfully copied in Puyuan. This can be called the pioneering work of Taohuawu New Year paintings. “A Tube of Harmony” warns the people of the palace to live in harmony and spread to the people’s desire to unite and fulfill their wishes.
“A Bun of Harmony” is one of the representative works of Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures
Since history, Taohuawu woodblock New Year pictures have carriedIt has a unique folk custom, that is, from content to social effects, called woodblock New Year pictures, but not limited to New Year postings and hangings. Instead, we should follow the season and express different beautiful expectations through woodblock New Year pictures when different festivals and solar terms come every year.
For example, when you bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, you should post a “Happy Picture”; when you are in the beginning of spring, you should post a “Mingyuan Picture”; when you are in the Mid-Autumn Festival, you should post a “Moon Palace Picture”… As you paste, the new year is coming again.
Yangliuqing, Tianjin
Thoughly influenced by multiculturalism
During the Spring Festival, when I came to Yangliuqing Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin, ancient buildings with carved beams and painted buildings immediately came into my eyes. The frozen ancient canal quietly “hibernated” in the town, and several beautiful arch bridges spanned the ice.
Quiet Ya RiverBabaylan 1990 cloth draw, Nan Canal and Daqing RiverKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were an important wharf for the north-south cargo circulation and overseas trade, and Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings were therefore deeply influenced by multiculturalism.
Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street is a Scenery
According to historical records, Yangliuqing Chinese painting first appeared in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and reached unprecedented prosperity during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1958, the state established the Yangliuqing Painting Club to rescue the New Year painting art, collected and organized Yangliuqing Paintings, and cultivated a group of outstanding New Year painting artists.
In recent years, with the prosperity of the cultural and tourism market, the demand for Yangliu Youth painting has expanded, bringing this ancient folk art back to the lives of the people. At the same time, Yangliu Youth Painting has also entered the international art sales and collection market.
If Taohuawu New Year paintings are like implicit and beautiful beauty, then Yangliuqing New Year paintings are lively and straightforward men. From the picture of fat dolls holding carp and lotus in hand to the three-star picture of lucky and lucky longevity, a unique style of vivid, joyful and full of emotions has been created.
YangCinema 1950 witch cloth drawLiu Qingnian’s paintings inherited the tradition of Song and Yuan paintings and absorbed the forms of woodcuts, arts and crafts, and drama stages in the Ming Dynasty. The early craftsmanship is basically the same as Taohuawu New Year paintings, and both use the stereotyped overprint of the drawings; in the post-production, it takes a lot of time to be used for hand-painting.
Yangliu Youth Painting Five Sons of Lotus was once selected as a stamp.
A New Year’s painting requires five main processes: drawing, carving and drawing, woodblock overprinting, hand-painting, and mounting.Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, plus more than three monochrome overprinting. Because of the combination of printing and painting, it has a quiet, elegant and lively visual effect, which is beyond the reach of other folk New Year pictures.
The content of the picture is mainly based on folk life, fat dolls, maids and historical stories. The most classic one is “After Years of Life”, the doll in the painting has a baby face, a Buddhist body, a martial arts stand, a carp in his arms, and a lotus in his hands, which caters to the folk’s beautiful wishes of “praying for blessings and blessings” and “more children and blessings”.
Yangliuqing Door God New Year’s Paintings
On the antique Ming and Qing Streets, Yuchengha, Yichengyong, Gu Liuxiang, Hua Yunzhai, etc.Babaylan 1990 clothes drawThe New Year’s Painting workshops one by one, and there are more than 60 New Year’s Painting production workshops and sales stores in Yangliuqing Town. It is one of the best New Year’s Paintings production sites and sales stores to restore it. It seems that it has returned to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw The scene of “Every family is painted and every household is painted” is endless, and tourists buying New Year’s paintings are endless all year round.
The first woodblock New Year painting museum in Yangliuqing Town holds a series of activities “Appreciating New Year paintings and observing folk customs” every year in the first month of the year.
The northern folk houses in the first floor exhibition hall of the museum, Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawA “Kitchen God” representing the sayings of good things from heaven and the safety of the land; a big carp representing more than a year and lively shapes; a picture of Fulu is posted in the middle of the main hall. drawShou Sanxing Mid-Dire paintings to protect the whole family;
On the living rooms on both sides, the mother-in-law lives in the upper house, and the New Year pictures with educational significance; the daughter-in-law lives in the lower house is covered with New Year pictures with many children and blessings; the kang is surrounded by kang with strong local atmosphere. Visitors to the museum can also experience the production process of woodblock New Year pictures.
Walking out of the museum, what I imprinted most is the gorgeous and vividness of Yangliu Youth New Year pictures, and I can’t forget the local people’s persistence in “only posting New Year pictures is considered the New Year”.
Yangliuqing New Year painting takes a lot of effort to paint by hand. The picture shows the painter of “New Year Painting Zhang” is focusing on the ending of the classic painting “Years of Years”
Now, the improvement and innovation of New Year paintings are new issues faced by older New Year painting craftsmen and young painters. Although it takes time and effort, it can be seen that it has a dense taste of life, abundant emotions and aesthetic interests, and the full expression of the New Year culture and the dreams of Yanhuang for thousands of years.
With more than 2,000 years of history, woodblock New Year paintings created by Chinese local artists are the oldest painting type in the world, an encyclopedia of Chinese folk customs and a “living fossil” full of Chinese civilization elements.
Yangcheng Evening News February 3, 2022 A7 Evening Party Supplement
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List of 17 woodblock New Year paintings selected as representative national intangible cultural heritage projects
1. Woodblock New Year paintings in Zhuxian Town, Kaifeng, Henan:
A simple and naive, with a long history, was born in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was the ancestor of Chinese woodblock New Year paintings.
2. Tianjin Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings:
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Catatively cater to the fun of the palace and the interests of the citizens.
The Yangliu Youth Painting “Hometown Happy Safe” is a “Wuchenghao Painting”
3. Wood-print New Year painting of Taohuawu, Suzhou, Jiangsu:
Delicious and neat, rich in color.
Small bridges and flowing water in Suzhou can be painted, giving birth to the beautiful Taohuawu woodblock New Year paintings
4. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings in Weifang, Shandong:
Not bound by nature, rich imagination, expressing the theme with generalization, romance, symbolism and meaning; the composition is complete and full and symmetrical; the shape is exaggerated and simple.
5. Sichuan Mianzhu woodblock New Year pictures:
The writing is rich in meaning and colorful.
6. Wooden New Year Pictures of Zhangzhou, Fujian:
The region has rich colors, and the themes of gods and Buddhas are rich and diverse.
7. Wooden New Year paintings in Foshan, Guangdong:
The image is delicate, rough and concise, strong and powerful, with a full composition, which expresses its auspiciousness and is highly distinctive.
8. Wooden New Year pictures of Longhui Tantou, Hunan:
Use unrestrained colors, eye-catching orange and bright, matching colors, round lines, strong sense of movement, and strong decorative flavor.
9. Hebei Wuqiang Wooden New Year Pictures:
Rough and simple, full of rural atmosphere.
10. Chongqing Liangping Wooden-sheet New Year Pictures:
The shape is vivid and lively, the color contrast is strong, and it is full of lifestyle.
11. Wooden New Year paintings in Dongchangfu, Liaocheng, Shandong:
The composition is simple, the overall feeling is strong, the characters are exaggerated, full and simple; the lines are round and smooth
12. Wooden New Year paintings in Pingyang, Linfen, Shanxi:
The shape is exaggerated, the image is vivid, and the decorative is strong.
13. Shaanxi Fengxiang woodblock New Year paintings:
The style is rough and exaggerated, with large blocks of colors, dynamic characters, and powerful.
14. Zhang Qiu woodblock New Year paintings in Yanggu, Shandong Province:
The composition is plump, well-proportioned and simple.
15. Sichuan Jiajiang Wooden New Year Pictures:
Bright colors and exquisite craftsmanship, and was as famous as Mianzhu New Year Pictures and Liangping New Year Pictures.
16. Wooden New Year paintings in Huaxian County, Henan Province:
The printing process is meticulous and complex, the composition of the picture is balanced and symmetrical, the image is full and solid, and the lines are strong and powerful.
17. Wooden New Year pictures of Laohekou, Hubei:
The carvings are fine and smooth, the lines are rough and powerful, and the characters are vivid and exaggerated.