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Woodcut New Year pictures

Updated: 2013-01-04 13:28
Source:xinhua

Woodcut New Year picture is for the occasion of Chinese Spring Festival. It features beautiful art design with bright, delightful colors. It fits the mood of the people longing for a happy life, a fresh start at the beginning of a year and a new cycle of perpetual life. Popular themes of New Year picture include house safeguard; family blessing; crop harvest; longevity; safety and prosperity.
 

Woodcut New Year picture covers a wide range of subjects and in a variety of designs. Folk New Year picture emerged in pre-historical time and was used as the door god. As a rule in social and cultural development, human awareness for door god went from the worship of natural animal, to deifier, and to humanized god.
 

 
 

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