The woodblock New Year paintings created by Mr. Chen Yiwen of Laohekou, who is known as the inheritor of the "Southern School" woodblock New Year paintings, participated in the "Hubei Folk Art Exhibition" in 1986 and the "First China Art Festival" in 1987. Three of his works were exhibited abroad in Southeast Asian countries, one of his works was selected into the Hubei version of junior high school art textbooks, and a large number of his works were collected by many provincial museums. In addition to rich colors, Chen Yiwen's woodblock New Year paintings also have the characteristics of fine, dense and complex lines and delicate expressions. Because his works retain the original local folk colors and fragrant earthy smell, the historical value it embodies in the original sense is not possessed by any other school of New Year paintings, and it is irreplaceable. The doorplate of "Chen Yiwen Lane" in Laohekou is black with gold characters, written in running script. The windows facing the street have also been uniformly replaced with red carved windows like New Year paintings, which have a strong folk flavor. Deep alleys, stone-built round arches, compact and quiet courtyards. Chen Yiwen has lived in this small courtyard in Laohekou for decades, and has also been associated with woodblock New Year paintings for decades. Chen Yiwen's ancestral home is Sheqi, Henan Province. His grandfather Chen Fuxing learned art from a man named "Wang Hama" in his early years. In the late Qing Dynasty, he wandered around Hubei and made a living by carving woodblocks in painting workshops. When he was 14 years old, he learned the carving skills of woodblock New Year paintings from his father Chen Guoqing. In the folk, this is called a door disciple, which means an apprentice directly led by an elder. After his father's oral instruction, the 16-year-old Chen Yiwen became a teacher and performed art. He worked in a workshop called "Songchangfu" opened by Hu Dejun in Laohekou, which was quite prosperous at the time. Later, he opened a special door god shop and settled in Laohekou. After liberation, due to political reasons, the old man put down his carving knife, carved seals in the carving society, and made musical instruments in the musical instrument factory. Later, the craft factory closed down, and the old man put down his carving knife and went home to retire. His title is an intermediate arts and crafts artist. The woodblock New Year paintings carved by Chen Yiwen inherited the true art of the "Southern School". The painting style is simple, the expression is delicate, and the colors are rich and colorful. Chen's woodblock New Year paintings are of various types, including more than 20 kinds of paintings, such as central hall, tribute paper, door gods, statues of gods, calendar paintings, and happy paintings. The themes are very wide, mostly from folk legends, historical stories, and folk customs, such as "Qilin Sending Children", "Fu Shou Shuangquan", "Hundred Longevity Pictures", "Hundred Years of Happiness", etc., which express auspiciousness and joy; "Zhong Kui", "Qin Shubao", "Guan Gong", etc., which express people's health and safety, exorcise evil spirits and bring blessings; "Guanyin Sending Children", "Five Sons Passing the Imperial Examination", "Harmony", etc., which express auspiciousness in folk customs. In addition to being good at traditional woodblock New Year paintings, Chen Yiwen is also good at gold and stone seal carving, craft carving, etc. After the founding of New China, Chen Yiwen settled down in Laohekou City, and then entered the art factory as a carver. During the "Cultural Revolution", woodblock New Year paintings were labeled as "monsters and demons" and were banned from printing. Chen Yiwen went through untold hardships and took great risks with his father to hide dozens of engravings and materials in a pile of abandoned wood. In private, Chen Yiwen did not give up his "job" and insisted on practicing carving skills. Thus, the precious folk art of southern woodblock New Year paintings was preserved. The woodblock New Year paintings created by Mr. Chen Yiwen participated in the "Hubei Folk Art Exhibition" in 1986, the "First China Art Festival" in 1987 and the "Eight Arts Festival" in 2007. Three of his works went abroad to Southeast Asian countries for exhibition, one of his works was selected into the Hubei version of junior high school art textbooks, and a large number of his works were collected by many provincial museums. In the first batch of intangible cultural heritage lists announced by the Hubei Provincial People's Government in 2007, the only folk art category was Laohekou City woodblock New Year paintings. New Year paintings have influenced China's cultural and artistic forms for thousands of years, but with the modernization of society, this ancient art has gradually declined. But old man Chen Yiwen persevered in holding his carving knife tightly throughout his life, performing a song of "woodblock years".