The picture shows citizens visiting the exhibition. (Photographed by Lin Min and Zhao Xi)
The auspicious New Year picture is pasted on the door, saying goodbye to the old and welcome the new year. Recently, the China Port Museum launched the exhibition “Wuqiang New Year pictures and our Spring Festival”.
Wuqiang New Year pictures are a kind of special decorations popular in the central Hebei Plain. They occupy a very important position in Chinese traditional folk culture and are unique in the national art garden. For thousands of years, at the end of the year, many places in China have the custom of posting New Year pictures and couplets to wish the new year good luck and happiness, drive out evil and eliminate disasters. New Year pictures are called “New Year pictures” because they are replaced or posted at the end of each year for one year’s appreciation. Wuqiang New Year pictures are named after their origin in Wuqiang, Hebei.
Feng Yi, curator of the China Port Museum, said that this time, in cooperation with the Wuqiang New Year Painting Museum, 100 high-quality Wuqiang New Year paintings were selected, which are divided into many categories, such as door god door paintings, immortal Buddha god paintings, auspicious festivities, story operas, folk current events, painting puzzles and entertainment. “This exhibition will be launched when the Spring Festival is coming, and the wonderful traditional folk cultural treasures will be introduced to you, while offering the best wishes to you”. (Reporter Lin Min Correspondent Zhao Xifanyu)