您现在的位置：关于中国 About China / 中国旅游 Chinese Travel / 地方特产 Local Color 天津杨柳青年画 杨柳青年画产于天津市郊的杨柳青镇。自明代崇祯年间（公元1627～1644年）就产生了这项工艺，距今已有300余年的历史。至清代（公元1644～1911年）中期，其技艺趋于成熟。因其制作精美而成为贡品，被选送入皇宫，自此声名远播。清末民初，由于农村经济的衰落和新式洋画的兴起，杨柳青年画曾一度陷入濒临灭绝的境地。新中国成立后经过抢救，才使杨柳青年画艺术得以保存下来。六十年代，杨柳青年画再创辉煌。工艺上不断出新，出现了在成版后再施以彩绘，晕粉描金的技法，产生了一批有影响的精品和人才。 杨柳青年画不同于一般年画，在工艺上采用木板套印，全部以手工绘制而成，需经过绘图、刻板、套印、描绘、着色、糊裱等十几道工序。它完美地将色彩与情调、民间绘画与国画风格，现实主义与浪漫主义相结合，给人以清新脱俗的感觉。作品题材广泛，内容生动，既反映人民的生活和风俗习惯，又有历史神话故事、民间传说、戏曲场面和风景花卉等。喜用寓意、装饰、象征的手法来表现主题。杨柳青年画不仅是民间艺术的典范，更是精美的艺术品，除在国内广受喜爱外，还远销俄罗斯、意大利、瑞典、法国、英国、比利时、加拿大、墨西哥、美国、日本、新加坡及香港等国家和地区。 New Year Pictures of Yangliuqing The woodcut New Year pictures of Yangliuqing have a strong flavor of life. People in the Yangliuqing village and 32 villages nearby, 20 kilometers from the west of Tianjin City proper, are all engaged in making New Year pictures. The New Year pictures are a unique art form with even arrangement, forceful stokes, elegant colors and beautiful shapes. Yangliuqing New Year pictures are different from other New Year pictures, for it is Xylograph in terms of craft. Xylograph of Yangliuqing originated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and matured in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when it was chosen as an article of tributes to the imperial family. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was on the decline due to the prevalence of foreign paintings. In the 1960s, it finally recovered its splendor and improved the craft with the support from the new government. The process of making a Yangliuqing New Year picture has a dozen steps like plotting, craving, to name a few. It perfectly relates color and emotion, folk painting and standard paining, realism and romanticism. It covers an extensive range of subjects like folk custom, legendary stories, historic events, and opera, usually via emblems and symbols to deliver the theme. Yangliuqing New Year pictures are a gem of art and loved by people both at home and abroad. It is exported to Italy, France, Britain, Belgium, Japan, Canada, the US, Singapore and Mexico, etc.