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Yang Liu Qing paintings, woodcut prints. Chinese Famous Folk Woodcut New Year pictures. Yangliu Youth Painting has a long history. It is famous for its exquisite brushwork, beautiful figure modeling, bright colors and rich and varied forms and contents.

It is also called "South Peach and North Willow" with the New Year Picture of Taohuawu in Suzhou. Around the time of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty. Qingyong, Qian and early Guangxu were the peak periods. 

The production method is "half printing and half painting", that is to say, first carve out the picture lines with woodcut, then print them on paper with ink, cover them with two or three monochrome plates, then fill them with color brushes, sketch, carve, brush, paint and mount them by hand. 

It has the characteristics of exquisite brushwork, beautiful characters, bright colors, rich content, diverse forms, peaceful atmosphere, humorous plot and interesting inscriptions. On June 8, 2007, Tianjin Yangliuqing Painting Society was awarded the First Cultural Heritage Day Award promulgated by the Ministry of Culture. 

On May 9, 2010, the Tianjin Activity Week of the World Expo opened, and Yang Liu Youth Painting was exhibited to the world as an exhibition item.

New Year Painting
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar calendar. Traditionally, from the 23rd to the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, every family cleans and paints their houses and does New Year shopping. In rural China, hanging New Year paintings is a must. Bought from the market, New Year pictures are hanged on every important spots of the house-the gete, rooms, the kitchen, the storehouse, the well, and the stable. Portraits of village god and kitchen got are usually pasted up on niched to express people's wishes for peace and happiness. For average Chinese farmers, hanging New Year paintings bring about unusual festive joy and delight to them.

Many provinces in China are known for their distinctive New Year paintings, from northern Hebei, Shangdong, Henan and Tianjin , to southern Shandong, Henan and Tianjin, to southern Guangdong and Fujian, from eastern Jiangsu to western Shaanxi and Sichuan. Among them, the painting genre from Wuqiang County, Hebei Province enjoys a long history, diversified styles and widespread reputation.