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Woodcut New Year picture

Updated: 2012-11-07 14:43

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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