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Yangliuqing Woodblock New Year Pictures

Updated : 2022-03-16

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Yangliuqing woodblock New Year pictures originated from Yangliuqing, a 1,000-year-old town in Tianjin. Dating back more than 400 years, the New Year pictures have a wide range of themes and auspicious meanings and feature the combined craftsmanship of carving and painting, making them among the best of Chinese folk woodblock New Year pictures. They are renowned in China and abroad because of profound historical accumulation and cultural continuity. Boasting great value for social science research, they are a comprehensive spiritual, practical, historical and contemporary achievement, and also an encyclopedia of historical features.

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