Yangjiabu is one of the three major production areas of Chinese folk woodblock New Year paintings (Tianjin Yangliuqing, Suzhou Taohuawu, Hanting Yangjiabu), and has been rich in woodblock New Year paintings since ancient times. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings are a rare flower in the treasure house of Chinese folk art, and are famous at home and abroad for their strong local flavor and simple and distinctive artistic style. Weixian Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings are a kind of folk prints circulated in Yangjiabu, Weifang City, Shandong Province. They are a rare flower in the treasure house of Chinese folk art, and are famous at home and abroad for their strong local flavor and simple and distinctive artistic style. Yangjiabu Village is 15 kilometers northeast of Weifang City and is famous for its abundant production of woodblock New Year paintings. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings began in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 400 years and is one of the three famous folk New Year paintings in my country. The Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Yangjiabu New Year paintings. At that time, Yangjiaobu Village had a saying that "there were hundreds of painting shops, thousands of painting types, and tens of thousands of painting plates". The annual sales of New Year paintings reached tens of millions of pieces. In addition to meeting the needs of the local people, they were also exported to Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, three provinces in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. With many varieties, large scale and wide sales range, it once stood on equal footing with Tianjin Yangliuqing, Suzhou and Taohuawu New Year paintings, becoming one of the three major Chinese folk painting markets. After the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, Yangjiaobu New Year painting artists founded four painting shops, including "Hengshun", "Tongshuntang", "Wan Zengcheng" and "Tianheyong". During the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods of the Qing Dynasty, Yangjiaobu woodblock New Year paintings began to flourish, and reached their peak during the Xianfeng period. For a time, there were hundreds of painting shops and thousands of painting types in the local area, and many talents in New Year paintings emerged. Yangjiaobu woodblock New Year paintings were once sold in most of China. After 1949, the Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings, which had been depressed due to the war, came back to life. In 1952, 7.8 million Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings were printed. In 1979, the former Weixian government established the Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Painting Research Institute, which specializes in excavating, sorting, researching and innovating Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings. Different places of origin have different styles. For hundreds of years, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings have gradually developed and improved in accordance with the ideological requirements, customs, beliefs, aesthetic views, and life needs of farmers, forming their own simple, elegant, simple and bright style. It is rooted in the folk and decorated on festivals. It has long played a role in enriching people's spiritual life, reflecting people's good wishes, and beautifying people's festival environment. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings are simple to make, with exquisite craftsmanship, bright colors and rich content. The themes of the Spring Festival New Year paintings are changed every year. After many new ideas and new things appear, they can be reflected in the New Year paintings immediately, which plays a certain role in promoting social progress. In addition, Yangjiaobu woodblock New Year paintings also indirectly recorded the conditions of Chinese folk houses and folk social life, and have certain reference value for the study of ancient Chinese culture. Weixian New Year paintings are one of the four major Chinese New Year paintings. They were founded in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. The production of woodblock New Year paintings was carried out in more than 30 villages and towns in the former Weixian County of Shandong Province and other surrounding counties, forming three factions of "coarse goods", "fine goods" and "black goods" New Year paintings (Note 1). The former Weixian County was the distribution center of "Weixian New Year Paintings", hence the name "Weixian New Year Paintings". Weixian New Year paintings are famous for their wide range of themes, various forms, complete craftsmanship, high output and large sales. They were recorded in modern celebrity writings and classics very early. Information source: Hanting District History and Records Office Information source: Hanting District History and Records Office