Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures

Applicant: Tianjin

Project No.: 300

Project No.: Ⅶ - 1

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Tianjin

Type: new item

Applicant: Tianjin

Protected by: Tianjin Yangliuqing painting society, cultural radio and Television Service Center, Yangliuqing town, Xiqing District, Tianjin

Introduction to yangliuqingmu New Year pictures:

Applicant: Tianjin

Among the numerous folk arts in Tianjin, the most representative is the Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures.

Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures originated in Yangliuqing, a thousand year old town. In Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, the opening of Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal and the rise of water transport in Tianjin made Yangliuqing an important distribution center of commodity trade between the north and the south, and the economy became increasingly prosperous. Artists of woodcut New Year pictures in surrounding areas have moved to Yangliuqing town to develop their business. Du Li wood, which is abundant outside Yangliuqing town, is very suitable for engraving. With this kind of available craft materials, Yangliuqing wood engraving New Year pictures rose and became more and more prosperous. There was a grand occasion that every family in the town and the surrounding villages would dye and every family would be good at it.

Due to historical reasons, Yangliu youth painting once declined, and closed down during the Anti Japanese war. After 1949, after the rescue, collection, excavation and arrangement of the people's government for many times, the Yangliu youth painting gained a new life.

Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures have a wide range of subjects, rich content, full composition, auspicious meaning, and enjoy both refined and popular tastes. It adopts the technique of combining engraving and drawing, with exquisite engraving, delicate drawing, vivid characters and elegant colors. It has become one of the famous New Year pictures in China. Yangliu youth painting is the representative of Chinese New Year Painting Art, which plays an important role in the development history of Chinese folk culture and Tianjin culture. Excavating, rescuing and protecting the Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures are of great significance to the study of Tianjin folk culture, northern New Year pictures and even the development of Chinese art.