Introduction of Woodblock New Year Pictures in Laohekou

Laohekou Woodblock New Year Pictures is a kind of China Woodblock New Year Pictures, which is a kind of Han folk art with a long history. It was born in Laohekou under the jurisdiction of Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. Most of the woodcut New Year pictures in Laohekou are based on historical dramas, romance novels, folk stories and legends, lunar calendar, agricultural proverbs, calligraphy banners, etc., with a wide range of themes, primitive expressions and strong national original ecological temperament. Chen, the inheritor of the old Hekou woodcut New Year pictures, has been engaged in folk woodcut New Year pictures for generations and is known as the successor of the "Southern School" woodcut New Year pictures. Chen carved and sold New Year pictures with his father in Xiangfan and Wan counties since childhood. His woodcut New Year pictures take ink lines as bones, emphasizing steep knives and vertical lines in carving. More than 20 kinds of works, such as nave, tribute money, New Year pictures of door gods and happy pictures, contain profound primitive folk customs. 20 10 laohekou woodcut new year pictures entered the expanded list of national intangible cultural heritage.