New Year Paintings in Yangjiabu, Weifang, Shandong/Town House Tiger/Lunar New Year Prints for the Year of the Tiger

The relationship between paper and New Year culture has a long history. In the New Year’s day, people wish to stay away from evil and look for auspiciousness, and convert their yearning and expectations for life into Spring Festival couplets, and use images to form New Year pictures or window grilles, and post them at home. The space inwardly returns to the joy and settlement of the heart, allowing home and heart to remove the old and build the new together. **Weifang New Year Pictures****Town House Tiger** The god tiger of the town house is usually attached to the back of the door, and is also called the "doorkeeper tiger." In China, the tiger is the king of all beasts, so the people regard it as a specific symbol that can protect the peace of life and pray for the peace of the family. In the picture, there are two sides of the Yangwen seal, the left is "Zhen Zhai Shenhu", and the right is "Chu Xie Bao Ji". In order to add magpies and pomegranates to the screen square, the auspicious meaning of the two is even more adopted. ● This model is a pair on the left and right. ● Size: (Because the sheets are cut by hand, the size will be slightly different) Left/ Town House God Tiger Approximately 45 x 31.8 cm Right / Anti-Evil Baoji Approximately 44.5 x 31 cm ● Place of Origin: Printed / Weifang, Shandong ● Precautions for placing an order: This is handmade paper plus manual overprinting, and the thickness, color, and size cannot be the same as the machine printing sheets. In addition, the color of the picture will be slightly different due to different brand screens and different resolutions when shooting products. Please refer to the actual product. **///Weifang Woodcut New Year Pictures ///** Chinese New Year Pictures in Weifang, Tianjin Yangliu Youth Pictures and Suzhou Taohuawu New Year Pictures are also known as "China's Three New Year Pictures". Weifang New Year pictures have become a unique form of local art expression with their contrasting colors and simple and lively style. **Strong colors** The hand-printed Weifang New Year pictures have full composition and symmetry. The overall color is strong but harmonious. The characters in his paintings are unique in shape, with folk local colors. **Featured paper** Shuhuo's selected works from the New Year paintings in Weifang area are very particular about the use of paper, using bamboo paper, which is not commonly used for New Year paintings. The bamboo paper selected by the author is made of sandalwood to increase the tenacity of the paper, and cotton is added to increase the water absorption. **Time quenching** The printed bamboo paper will be stored for two years, and then the printing can be carried out after the paper is stable. Store the printed New Year pictures for at least two years and wait for the paper color to stabilize. **Wonderful color registration** On the technical level, Weifang New Year's Paintings will be published online first, and then printed and pressed. Weifang can achieve up to 13 colors in the local area. Some of the works in this series can achieve a gradual color effect, which belongs to the exquisite color process. Zhang Zhang Nianhua is like a collection of folk art. It retains the inherited and innovative skills of craftsmen and records the life connotation of the vast folk customs. When viewing or accepting New Year paintings, it means accepting producers and creators. Describing hopes and blessings for the coming year.