New Year paintings, the beauty of memory

New Year paintings, the beauty in the memory

In the era of being born after the 70s, we could not afford to buy villain books, radios, and television, and the only thing that allowed us to see and feel the thick history and wonderful culture of China was the New Year painting.

No matter how difficult the family, when the New Year is new year, they always have to expose (buy) a few New Year paintings and paste them on the wall. It is both a decoration of the family and a new year's prayer.

Cheap is the kind of woodblock printing of the New Year paintings, there are Lotus Birth Takako, Nian Nian Youyu, Chang'e Benyue, Fairy Scattered Flowers, Magu Xianshou, etc., only simple line pictures and thick red and green colors, no detailed text introduction, only a few words of the picture name. When the elders of the family pasted the paintings on the wall, they would tell us this story, and many beautiful legends have remained in my mind since then. Each family will post New Year paintings according to their own wishes, if they want to marry a daughter-in-law, they will buy a few beautiful pictures and paste them on the wall, if they want to have children, they will paste the New Year paintings of the Kirin or Guanyin children on the wall, and those who hope that the elderly will live a long life will be pasted with the New Year paintings of Songhe Longevity or Old Life Stars, all of which express a simple wish. Remember the stories of the Three Niang Godson, Liu Hai Fishing For Golden Toad, Wu Song Fighting Tiger and so on. Later, there was a printed version of the movie picture, with text under the picture, like a large comic strip, which was enjoyable and fascinating to read. Most of them are some well-known drama films, but they are only vaguely remembered, which is much worse than the impression left by those woodblock New Year paintings, and the characters in the picture are handsome and the colors are more colorful. With the improvement of living standards, there were four scroll hanging paintings of Meilan Zhuju and some landscape paintings, and some cultured families also hung up - some printed calligraphy and paintings, most of which are also some ancient poems with profound meanings.

What must be bought is the stove king, on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, pasted on the side of the pot stove, near the side of the bellows, above which are the stove king and the stove king grandmother, the stove king wears a golden crown, sitting in the middle, on the side of a stove king grandmother. There is also a horse at the top, when the stove is cut, it is necessary to go to the heavenly court to report on the harvest and suffering of the human world, and it bears great responsibility, so it must eat and drink enough. The offerings to the Stove King are some sweet snacks and fruits, so that the Stove King eats the sweetness of his mouth and says more good things. I remember that my father would always say a word when he resigned: Heaven says good things and the netherworld descends auspiciously. It expresses the yearning for a better life and the hope for the arrival of happiness.

Now those woodblock New Year paintings are already intangible cultural heritage, with the rise of electronic products, no one pays attention to those New Year paintings, but in my heart, those New Year paintings are still the inheritance of Chinese culture and art. There are customs, there are people's feelings, there are rituals, there is reverence, there is teaching good, warning evil, giving people hope, it is a piece of eternal beauty in the depths of the soul.

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