There are three main types of Huangzhong folk paintings: Huangzhong peasant paintings, architectural murals, and folk lacquer paintings. Huangzhong peasant paintings are the most important type of painting. Peasant paintings are created by farmers who face the loess and work hard. Their ideas and expression methods are not limited by professional paintings. They are simple in content and rich in imagination. They do not seek proportions, resemblances, light and shadow, and perspective. The works are presented to the world with the simple and honest emotional temperament of plateau farmers, rich local flavor, beautiful painting language, unique local characteristics, and strong artistic charm. From the perspective of expression form and painting language, Huangzhong peasant paintings first borrowed the colors and modeling techniques of folk embroidery, using dark colors as the background color of the picture and various simple and bright colors as the background, which has a strong decorative flavor. Secondly, it absorbs the expression techniques of paint painting, and uses the same depth and thickness to gradually configure colors. The picture has both national characteristics and a strong sense of the times. Third, it draws on the artistic characteristics of "Thangka", with a variety of painting methods, single-line flat painting, strong colors, and strong contrast; the composition is full, and the gaps in the picture are usually symmetrical and balanced, with decorative patterns set off. Fourth, it absorbs the nutrition of folk arts such as shadow puppetry and paper-cutting, melts national culture, local culture and folk painting art into one furnace, takes distinctive regional colors and strong national characteristics as the creative background, and draws materials widely, highlighting the plateau scenery and local customs, thus creating a colorful art world. Huangzhong County is located in the eastern part of Qinghai Province. Its long history and profound cultural heritage have nurtured the rich and colorful Huangzhong culture. Huangzhong folk painting has a long history of development. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many folk artists were active in the Hehuang Valley. Qinghai Huangzhong peasant painting began in the early 1970s. It is mainly based on Han and Tibetan culture and has unique artistic characteristics. It is a magnificent wonder in the treasure house of traditional ethnic folk art on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In 1988, the Ministry of Culture awarded Huangzhong County the title of "China's Modern Folk Painting Town". In the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of folk artists were active around the Ta'er Temple. They were often invited by the temple to carve beams and paint pillars, paint clay sculptures, repair murals, and repair temples. At that time, lacquer painting was also widely used in folk architecture. Rich families often invited artists to their homes to paint boxes and coffins. On this basis, folk artists passed down the folk painting skills from generation to generation in the form of apprenticeship. In the early 1970s, a folk painting craze emerged in the Xiaonanchuan area of Huangzhong, and many people competed to become craftsmen. In 1974, Qingfeng Village, Tumenguan Township, Huangzhong County, spontaneously started a farmer's art night school. This was the first time that Huangzhong folk painting artists spontaneously organized a relatively standardized folk teaching activity, which laid the foundation for the popularization and development of Huangzhong folk painting. In March 1983, the National Art Museum of China held the "Qinghai Huangzhong National Folk Painting Art Exhibition". When Huangzhong peasant paintings were first exhibited in the Capital Art Museum, they were highly praised by national leaders. This exhibition created the history of Qinghai folk art entering the national art hall since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, a large number of Huangzhong peasant paintings were exhibited and won awards at national folk painting exhibitions. Many works were introduced abroad and collected by foreign art galleries; some peasant painters were invited by foreign cultural institutions to participate in cultural exchange activities abroad. In the national and provincial art works appraisal, Huangzhong peasant paintings have frequently won awards, and many works have been collected by national art galleries and foreign art galleries. In 1987, Qinghai People's Publishing House edited and published the "Huangzhong National Folk Painting Art Collection". In 2010, Huangzhong peasant paintings were exhibited at the Shanghai "World Expo".