Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures

Applicant: Kaifeng City, Henan Province

Project No.: 306

Project No.: Ⅶ - 7

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Henan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Kaifeng City, Henan Province

Protection unit: Kaifeng Cultural Center

Introduction to Zhuxian woodblock New Year pictures:

Applicant: Kaifeng City, Henan Province

Kaifeng City is located in the eastern plain of Henan Province. According to the records of menghualu in Tokyo, there were woodcut New Year pictures in Zhuxian Town, more than 20 kilometers south of Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, woodcut New Year pictures were very prosperous in Zhuxian Town, with more than 300 workshops at most. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhuxian woodcut New Year pictures began to decline, and most of the workshops moved back to Kaifeng City, so Kaifeng became the production and sales center of Zhuxian woodcut New Year pictures, and some famous time-honored New Year pictures workshops such as "Tiancheng", "Yunji" and "Huichuan" appeared in the city. After 1949, Kaifeng City has established Kaifeng New Year pictures society, Henan Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures society and other organizations to excavate and sort out the traditional crafts of woodcut New Year pictures.

Zhuxianzhen woodblock New Year pictures are very particular about color. They use minerals and plants as raw materials to grind pigments by hand. The colors of the pigments are very pure. The New Year pictures printed with them are bright and bright, never fade for a long time, full and symmetrical composition, simple and rough lines, simple and exaggerated modeling, and unique artistic style. The themes of New Year pictures come from popular folktales, myths, legends and operas. They are various and vivid.

Now Kaifeng has excavated and sorted out more than 220 pieces of old New Year pictures, reprinted more than 300 sets of old historical new year pictures, and compiled and printed "Kaifeng Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures selection", "Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year pictures collection", "Zhuxian Town woodcut New Year Pictures Story Collection", etc., which has done a lot of useful work for the protection of traditional woodcut New Year pictures. However, at present, most of the old artists are old and their skills have not been inherited, especially the traditional grinding methods of mineral and plant colors are little known. If they are not protected in time, the production skills of Zhuxian woodblock New Year pictures are likely to die out completely.