New Year's paintings, as the name suggests, are paintings posted during the Chinese New Year. The New Year's painting evolved from the "door god painting", which is the most expressive and the most local.
The Spring Festival hanging New Year paintings, not only to thousands of households to add a lot of prosperous and joyful festive atmosphere, but also reflect the people's simple customs and beliefs, pinning hope for the future, rich and colorful content, complex and diverse connotation, is an important part of folk art, is the precious intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
For the New Year's paintings, is it a picture of a big fat doll holding a carp in everyone's impression?
In fact, New Year paintings have a variety of themes and complex styles, and they are a folk art form with a wide range of influences. In China, there is probably no type of painting that is richer and more extensive than the genre of New Year paintings, and there is no kind of painting that has a larger number of participants and audiences than New Year paintings.
For Chinese, who have experienced thousands of years of agrarian society, the rhythm of life and production is synchronized with nature's spring, summer, autumn and winter. As a festival to remove the old and welcome the new, the Spring Festival is the strongest and most distinctive expression of people's spiritual ideals, life aspirations and aesthetic needs, as well as the ultimate values. For Chinese, New Year paintings are the most flavorful symbol of the Spring Festival.
The origin of the New Year's painting.
The origin of the New Year's painting can be traced back to the ancient sacrificial activities, the earliest originated in the Yaoshun period, people will hold a grand sacrificial ceremony during the Spring Festival, with portraits to represent the gods and ancestors, and paste portraits in the sacrificial places to show respect and pray for blessings, and the New Year's paintings have gradually developed into the decorative art of the New Year, mainly posted in the New Year, used to decorate the environment, containing the meaning of blessing the New Year, auspicious and festive. It is an ancient Han folk art in China, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people and carries people's hopes for the future.
Historically, where there were Chinese, there were New Year paintings. In addition to the famous "South Peach and North Willow", Zhuxian Town, Yangjiabu, Sichuan Mianzhu, there are dozens of famous New Year paintings in China: Tianjin Dongfeng Tai, Hebei Wuqiang, Shanxi Pingyang, Shaanxi Fengxiang, Chongqing Liangping, Hunan Beachhead, Guangdong Foshan, Fujian Zhangzhou ......Most parts of our country also have workshops for engraving New Year's paintings. As far as the Yao people in the depths of the southwest mountains, they printed New Year paintings with the theme of "Panwang"; The Manchus in the Northeast will also order Manchu New Year paintings from the Hebei area.
The status of New Year's paintings.
New Year's paintings are a type of Chinese painting. Beginning in ancient times, the "door god painting" in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, officially known as the New Year painting, is a unique painting genre in China, and it is also an art form that the common people in rural China like to see. 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. Traditional folk New Year paintings are mostly made with wooden board watermarks.
New Year's paintings have had many names in Chinese history, such as paper paintings, flower paper, painting paper, Wei trowels, bucket squares, etc., and the custom of New Year's stickers has a history of more than 1,000 years.
The types of New Year's paintings include six categories: door gods, auspicious celebrations, customs, dramas, symbols, and miscellaneous paintings. The production methods of New Year's pictures are roughly manual drawing, wood printing, watermark color registration, half-printing and half-painting, lithographing, offset printing, etc. Generally speaking, the production of New Year's pictures is more complex and requires a certain amount of skill. Therefore, the production of New Year paintings is done by a specific New Year painting craftsman.
The composition of the door god New Year painting is symmetrical, and the color matching is the earliest form of New Year painting. The auspicious New Year paintings directly express the people's yearning for a better life.
The New Year's pictures of folk life are the portrayal of real life by folk artists.
Drama, a New Year's painting that expresses the story of opera, its form is similar to *** group paintings or literary illustrations.
Fu Xiang New Year Painting is a kind of New Year painting in the form of gods and symbols that aims to drive away evil spirits and accept auspiciousness.
Miscellaneous New Year's paintings include lamp paintings, window paintings, dust paper, table paintings, pasted wallpaper, cloth paintings, flowers and birds, and month card New Year's paintings.
After the baptism of the years, the New Year paintings are still forging ahead in the cultural process. New Year paintings arose in the Han Dynasty, were in the development stage in the Tang and Song dynasties, and were very popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The people of the Han Dynasty liked to put "guardian saints" and tigers on the doors. Hanging a picture of the Year of the Tiger at the door, the common people believe that they can avoid evil and scare away the New Year beast on Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was popular to paste chickens on the door, and chickens were worshiped as guardian saints at that time. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was popular to paste Buddhist scripture prints. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the themes of the Song Dynasty's New Year paintings were more diverse, and there were new breakthroughs in production techniques. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the commercial economy was prosperous, and people were committed to the pursuit of festive New Year paintings, which gradually became the label of that era. When Emperor Kangxi was in power, the social environment was stable, and this background also made the development space of New Year paintings unprecedentedly prosperous.
The application of New Year's paintings.
Folk New Year paintings have a long history, have more production areas, are very popular, popular, and have a large number of readers, and have a very prosperous development. Whether it is the subject matter, engraving technology, or artistic style, it all has its own distinctive characteristics. It has not only had a profound impact on other categories of folk art, but also formed a kind of painting that is integrated with other paintings, and has the characteristics of elegance and common appreciation.
Folk New Year painting is a larger art category in Chinese folk art, which has gradually developed from the early nature, worship and belief in gods to the festival customs and activities of exorcising evil spirits, praying for blessings and disasters, joyful and festive, decorating and beautifying the environment, expressing the people's thoughts and feelings and wishes for a better life.
New Year's pictures play an indispensable role in our lives. Every Spring Festival is an important moment for people's production and life to start a new cycle. Therefore, during the Spring Festival, family reunions, farewell to the old and welcome the new, people celebrate in various ways, ignite the passion of life, and express their desire and love for life in the new year. "The New Year's paintings are the externalization and manifestation of this spirit and emotion, so what we see from the New Year's paintings is the people's ardent hope for a better life. ”
New Year's paintings, like blooming flowers, bloom in the hearts of Chinese children, full of yearning for a better life, witnessing the rolling forward of the times.
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