On January 20, 2022, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, the "Meng YangYu Nian Painting Exhibition" was exhibited at the Shanxi Archaeological Museum, attracting the public to visit. As a popular art form in The Chinese Folk Spring Festival, New Year paintings carry people's yearning for a better life. In the 1970s and 1980s, artist Meng Yangyu used the brush in his hand to depict the ever-changing appearance of urban and rural areas, and used the form of New Year paintings to make festive works enter thousands of households in China.
Artist Meng Yangyu tells the story of his own New Year paintings in the 1970s and 1980s.
Meng Tian (left), 52, and Wang Zhiji, 54, imitate their childhood selves in Nianhua. The New Year painting on the left of the two is Meng Yangyu's 1982 "Ten Thousand Flower Lanterns Connected to Beijing", in which the boy who is ready to light the firecracker is Wang Zhiji, and the one who closes his ears is Meng Tian.
The "Meng Yang Yu Nian Painting Exhibition" was exhibited at the Shanxi Archaeological Museum to attract the public to visit.
The public visited the "Meng Yang Yu Nian Painting Exhibition" to enjoy the exquisite and festive old New Year paintings.
"Meng Yangyu Nian Painting Exhibition" reflects people's yearning and pursuit of a better life in the early days of reform and opening up.