Woodcut New Year pictures (Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: woodcut New Year pictures (Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures)

Applicant: Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Project No.: 841

Project No.: Ⅶ - 65

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shandong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Protection unit: cultural center of Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City

Introduction to woodcut New Year pictures (Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures)

Applicant: Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Woodcut New Year picture is a popular traditional art style for Chinese people to welcome the new year and receive blessings on the occasion of new year's festival. It conveys the life ideals of the general public, reflects many characteristics of social life and folk culture, and becomes an important part of Chinese folk art. Woodblock New Year pictures are printed by traditional woodblock watermarking method, which is closely related to woodblock printing. Woodcut New Year pictures have a long history. It is said that they appeared in the Han Dynasty. They were called "Paper paintings" in the Song Dynasty and "Huatie" in the Ming Dynasty. They were officially named "New Year pictures" in the Qing Dynasty. In the course of thousands of years of development, a number of relatively concentrated woodblock New Year pictures producing areas have gradually formed. Each producing area not only maintains the technical exchange relationship with other regions, but also maintains its own originality in theme and form. From the perspective of subject matter, woodcut New Year pictures can be divided into five categories: driving away evil spirits, praying for good fortune, drama and legend, festive decoration, and living customs. The main styles include Gongjian, Zhongtang, duiping, Lihua, Kangwei, etc. Woodcut New Year pictures have various techniques and bright colors, and have various styles due to regional differences. It has high aesthetic taste, distinctive artistic features, large information carrying capacity, and contains profound national psychology and traditional humanistic concepts.

Dongchangfu woodcut New Year picture is a kind of folk art style spread in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. It is mainly distributed in Dongguan Street, Qingxiao street, xudikou of Tangyi town and Dazhao of Liangshui town. Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures have a history of more than 300 years, reaching its peak in the period of the Republic of China. From the western Shandong plain to all parts of Shandong, from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan to the northeast provinces, there are sales markets of Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures everywhere. Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures integrate new year pictures with door god paintings, and have the functions of aesthetic appreciation and Exorcism and blessing. It has a wide range of materials, including the contents of real life, historical figures, opera stories, myths and legends, as well as the expression of auspicious themes such as fortune, fortune, longevity and happiness. The composition of these new year pictures is simple, the style is high, the overall sense is strong, the figure shape is exaggerated, the shape is plump and simple, the lines are mellow and fluent, the combination of hardness and softness, the color is bright and the contrast is strong. Dongchangfu woodcut New Year pictures have always been "grass print", that is to say, only print without painting. All the pictures are printed by woodcut color separation and overprint, usually with five basic colors of red, yellow, gray, green and black, most of the time with "seven color and eight print". The New Year pictures are colorful and highly decorative. Generally, the faces are not colored, so the characters are quite eye-catching on the screen. Dongchangfu woodcut New Year picture is a vivid reflection of local social life, history and culture, with rich cultural connotation, which can be used as a reference for folk art researchers.

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