chinese art :New Year picture

A New Year picture,is an important and popular prints in China. Its original form was a picture of a door god fashioned during the Qin Dynasty. Later, more subjects, such as conventions, carnivals, the Kitchen God, women and babies were included. Customarily, as each Chinese New Year arrives, every family modifies its New Year picture in order to "say goodbye to the Past and welcome the Future" .

Now,only part of rural areas in North China keep the convention to post New Year pictures during Chinese New Year, but as a kind of popular art, it is already has thousands years life in the land of China.