Investigation And Research Of Woodcut New Year Paintings Jiangzhou

JiangZhou stands in the southwest of shanxi. It neighbors to the north ofYunChen and Joins Fen River with Huang River. In Qin dynasty(1724)JiangZhou was called ZhiLi State which is under the direct control of statecouncil. And then it was renamed as XinJiang county in Republic of China(1912).JiangZhou’s wooden new year picture characters in the following towaspects: firstly it enjoys long history and elaborated development. Secondly thenew year picture is richful in its contents and various in types. Thirdly its printways varies such as single colored, double colored and so on. It includes allkinds of art displays based on the different ways of making new year pictures.Fourthly the wooden new year picture is meticulous in carving and exquisite indesign. And it excels in handwriting. It valued in carving version.New year picture and traditional opera are very popular folk arts amongpeople. From its origin to flourishing, the two arts develops very wellrespectively according to their own characters. The commonness between themis that the two arts are both chic in folk. They definitely can be mixed at a time.Even the newer art type will come into being because the bumping. People’sliving can be learned from so many new year pictures. In the long years of Chinathe new year picture inherited our ancestors’experience and therefore becamethe outstanding work in traditional cultural heritages. It embodies living andworking of people in china. Among these pictures the opera pictures are playing an important role in Chinese opera.However, the regional differences characters in new year picture andtraditional opera. Thus the protection and reconstructing for regionalcharacteristics are more important than before. The paper concludes and clarifiesthe wooden new year pictures from the views of its development, productionand characteristics. In order to enrich the relevant information the writer himselfcame to XinJiang and learned from the local artist.Traditional opera and new year pictures are promoting each other. On theone hand the opera provides vivid living resources. The new year picture recordsand spreads the opera vice versa. The best way to learn the opera is from newyear picture. However, it just one of ways to learn opera. The inherent intonationof opera can not be found by new year picture. The value of opera cannot beexaggerated. On the other hand, the study of opera can be focused on the overallunderstanding about the local cultural as well as its art schools instead ofpictures itself. In a word it plays positive roles to inherit XinJiang’s wooden newyear picture. And so does its protection and spreading.