Woodblock handmade printing New Year picture
Woodblock handmade printing New Year picture is East Traditional Intangible Cultural heritage handicrafts.It is made by printing bamboo paper on carved wooden boards.It has very high artistic and aesthetic value. The pictures in it can bring people good luck and avoid misfortune, as a mysterious force in the East, it constantly guards every aspect of people's lives.
Woodblock handmade printing New Year pictures began 2,200 years ago, using wood carving to create a master plate, which was printed on rice paper using wood watermark. Eastern wood carving can be traced back 10,000 years ago, and over 7,000 years ago, wood carvings with fish patterns have appeared. More than 2,000 years ago, wood carving techniques became more mature, with exquisite and perfect painting and carving techniques. In order to enter the homes of ordinary people, various wooden New Year pictures have emerged.
In China, in hundred festivals, Chinese New Year is the first, and for Eastern people, Chinese New Year (Nian) is the most important festival. It marks an end to the past and a new beginning. For Easterners, celebrating the Chinese New Year is about letting go of all past unhappiness and failures, and letting them go with the wind. At the same time, looking forward to the new year, formulating new plans, and wishing the new year a better development.
New Year picture are decorative paintings posted by Eastern people during the Chinese New Year. The patterns drawn in New Year pictures are something that everyone can possess, and everyone should be protected and blessed. In Eastern culture, everyone should be respected, whether they are poor or rich, whether they have been successful or failed in the past, they are a part of the family, and they are worthy and should be respected. So, in order to cater to various family members, the New Year pictures posted at home have various different images.
There is a saying in China, "Every profession has its champion" (hang hang chu zhuang yuan), which means that no matter what profession a person is engaged in, no matter what his position in his profession is, as long as he lives seriously, he is sacred and he should be respected.In New Year pictures, there are gods for every profession, such as the Kitchen God for cooks, the Medicine God for doctors, the Craftsman God for craftsmen, the Sea God for fishermen, etc. These gods will bless people engaged in every profession with peace, health, and development in their respective professions, and will bring happiness and well-being.
For Easterners, safe and sound (Ping An) is the most important word. If someone is Ping Ping An An (in the Eastern language, doubleword means emphasis), then he is delightful, he is happiness, and that is what people pursue. In New Year pictures, there are also many blessings for Ping An. Some also use the image of a fierce god, because in Eastern culture, ghosts and demons are evil, and their existence leads to people's lives being unsafe, bleeding, encountering difficulties, illness, and restlessness. These fierce gods are meant to help people, dispel evil spirits, return a pure land to the world, give warmth to the world, and enable people to live and work in peace, happiness, safe and sound.
Later, there will be some links to typical Oriental New Year pictures. We also hope that the mysterious power of the East can help you live a Ping An (safe and sound) and happy life, achieve your goals, and realize your dreams.
The drawing of New Year picture is also very artistic.It contains thousands of years of inheritance and concentration of Oriental art. Unlike Western court paintings, which often be placed in royal families or museums, Oriental culture is egalitarian, and art is not divided into classes. Everyone should enjoy art and have art. The lines of New Year pictures are very soft, like water, penetrating everywhere, carrying everything, but also very powerful, with the energy to suppress everything. New Year pictures have a rich and colorful range of colors.
Some of them, it is black and white style, simple and rustic, black, white and gray colors, suitable for various decorative styles, regardless of what to match, it is very harmonious, in Oriental aesthetics, it is very commonly used.Because, in Oriental culture, "HE" is also the most important word.People and people should join hands, people and nature should join hands, everything should join hands.United but not losing personality, interdependence, mutual help, everyone has their own world, a big and small, mutual influence, like a symphony orchestra, each tone has its own characteristics, but they cooperate together cleverly to form the most beautiful melody, this is the highest state of human development.
Some of them, the colors are very rich and the color combinations with great impact are full of beauty.This kind of high-saturation colors are not common in modern life.However, in New Year pictures, this kind of combination is preserved. After the careful matching of the masters, these high-saturation colors do not make people feel disgusted, but rather are a wonderful combination.The same colors, if replaced with other paintings, cannot produce such an effect.Like oil paintings in Western aesthetics, the use of colors forms a new and bizarre world.In Eastern culture, this world is never monotonous, and this world is always rich and colorful.You can be red, blue, yellow, green, and you can be any color in the palette. Every life should be respected, every life should have his own world, and every life is unique.In color, every life has its own color, and these colors combine together to form such a colorful world.In New Year pictures, which are the art treasures of the most eastern art, this is even more evident.
The traditional Chinese New Year pictures also use very special materials.The paper used is made from bamboo, which grows very rapidly.This papermaking technology flourished in the Tang Dynasty (618 AD) in China 1400 years ago.Because it does not use ordinary trees as raw materials for papermaking, but uses bamboo, which grows rapidly and is renewable.Ordinary trees require a growth cycle of 5-10 years, while bamboo can be used as raw material in just one year.Moreover, after cutting down trees, they cannot be regenerated and can only be cultivated again.However, bamboo can continue to grow after being cut down, and even through planned cutting, it can help bamboo grow.Therefore, it greatly protects the environment.The water produced during the production process can also be used as fertilizer to assist the growth of crops.In the Tang Dynasty of China, bamboo paper began to flourish gradually, and under the leadership of the Chinese royal family, it became a popular paper throughout the country.
Yes, it is true, in China 1400 years ago, people already attached great importance to environmental protection.
Bamboo paper for Chinese New Year pictures, produced through traditional Chinese craftsmanship, not only greatly protects the environment, but also, with the innovation of skilled craftsmen in the East, achieves a paper quality far superior to that of wood paper.Bamboo paper is smooth and flexible, with a white color, a lustrous appearance like jade, hygienic and non-toxic, clear and transparent, with ink that does not easy fade, and is durable and resistant to decay.