After nearly a thousand years of development, by the Qing Dynasty, New Year pictures had become popular all over the country. Of course, the styles of New Year pictures in different regions are naturally different. There are local New Year pictures in Weifang, Shandong Province, simple New Year pictures in Zhuxian Town, Henan Province, and New Year pictures in Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, which are very enjoyable and colorful. In the history of China, the New Year pictures of Mianzhu in Sichuan, Yangliuqing in Tianjin, Weifang in Shandong and Taohuawu in Jiangsu are the most famous New Year pictures in China, which are called China's? Four New Year pictures? . These New Year pictures enrich the regional and style characteristics of Chinese New Year pictures.
Woodblock New Year pictures have high humanistic and artistic values. Woodblock New Year pictures are spread all over the country, and their regional styles are rich and colorful, echoing the diversity of China culture. At the same time, woodblock New Year pictures are also a combination of painting, sculpture, folk literature and drama. The technological production of Yangjiabu New Year pictures is basically completed by overprinting. Generally speaking, it can be divided into four processes: painting creation, sketchpad engraving printing, woodcut overprint and meat burning. When creating a painting, the creator should carefully consider the choice of form, the determination of content and the size of the picture. In addition, when creating, we should fully consider its long-term artistic characteristics and respect its creative rules and modeling patterns.
In the traditional Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures, there is another one called? Black goods? Monochrome painting mainly shows landscape flowers and birds and plums, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums. Ink lines will be highlighted when printing, and light ink will be added in some places to increase quality and texture. The production method of Yangjia woodblock New Year pictures is simple. It changes every Spring Festival. Many new ideas and new things are immediately reflected in New Year pictures and spread all over the country. Under the historical conditions at that time, it was not only conducive to social stability, but also played a certain role in promoting social progress. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures also indirectly recorded the situation of China folk houses at that time through New Year pictures with different widths, lengths and sizes, which is of great value to the study of ancient China culture.