Fork Stories from Lunar Year Pictures
一张年画一个故事
What is Lunar Year Picture?
年画是什么?
Lunar Year Pictures (年画Nián Huà) is a Chinese folk painting, which is often displayed inside a residential house or at the gate during the Spring Festival. The production method is usually wood engraving and then rubbing and coloring, but some are just hand-painted. It carries stories from generation to generation for thousands of years, especially stories about Chinese Gods for generations.
年画(Nián Huà)是一种中国民间绘画,是春节期间在私人住宅内或大门口展示的版画。制作方式通常是木质版刻后拓印上彩,但也有一些只是手绘。 它承载着千百年来世代相传的故事,尤其是关于中国神灵的故事。
Gallery of various Door Gods
各类门神欣赏
Sichuan Mianzhu
四川绵竹
Sichuan Fengxiang
陕西凤翔
Sichuan Mianzhu champion
四川绵竹状元
Yùchí Gōng & Qín Qióng
尉迟恭与秦琼
Craftsmanship of Lunar New Year Picture
木版年画的工艺
木版年画在中国历史悠久,最早出现在宋代,距今已经有一千多年的历史了。木版年画在中国有众多流派,从制作技巧方面可以分为木版套色,半印半绘,纯手工绘画等多种方法。
此次我们体验的便是半印半绘技法,从起稿,构图,再到描画,上版,搓纸,刻版,洗版,润纸,修版,试色,砑印,我们手中每一张墨画均经历了十多道工序方才制成。与套色年画不同的是此次画稿后期的需要我们手工依次上色完成作品。
中国木版年画各地色彩使用习惯各有特色,但总体基本都是墨色加五到六种彩色颜料,常用的色彩为大红、藤黄和草绿,辅以粉色,紫色,蓝色等。
虽然常规意义上是半印半绘的技法,但在我们创作过程中,也不必拘泥于形式,可以大胆的尝试用单一色调进行平涂,创造出崭新别样的风格。
Woodblock New Year pictures have a long history in China. They first appeared in the Song Dynasty and have a history of more than a thousand years. There are many schools of woodblock New Year pictures in China, which can be divided into woodblock coloring, half-printed and half-painted, pure hand-painted, and other methods in terms of production techniques.
This time we experienced the technique of half-printing and half-painting, from drafting, composition, drawing, printing, plate rubbing, engraving, plate washing, paper embellishment, plate revision, color testing, calendering, every detail in our hands Each ink painting has gone through more than ten processes before it is made. The difference from the colored New Year pictures is that we need to manually color in order to complete the work in the later stage of the drawing.
The color usage habits of Chinese woodblock New Year paintings have their own characteristics in different regions, but the overall color is basically black plus five to six kinds of color pigments. The commonly used colors are scarlet, gamboge and grass green, supplemented by pink, purple, blue, and so on.
Although the traditional technique is half-printing and half-painting, we don’t have to stick to the form in our creative process. We can boldly try to use a single color for flat painting to create our unique style.
Start to Make Your Own
自己在家做年画儿
Experience it yourself. It's easy and fun! 自己动手迎大神儿!
Option 2: Self-Craft Version
Download and print the black&white version, then color it yourself!
选择二:黑白拓印线稿文件
下载黑白线稿后打印上色,更有创意!
Get Our Coloring Tips11 了解上色技巧
河北武强鞭锏门神(秦琼)_黑白
Hebei Wuqiang Whip Mace DoorGod (Qín Qióng )_BW
河北武强鞭锏门神(尉迟恭)黑白
Hebei Wuqiang Whip Mace DoorGod (Yù Chí Gōng )_BW
佛山文官门神 (左)
Foshan Civilian DoorGod (Left)
佛山文官门神(右)
Foshan Civilian DoorGod (Right)
Coloring Tips
上色技巧
Tips for coloring black and white manuscripts
Preparation of pigments: Chinese woodblock New Year paintings have different color usage habits in different places, but the overall color is basically black plus five to six kinds of color pigments. The commonly used colors are scarlet, gamboge and grass green, supplemented by pink, purple, blue, and so on.
Coloring: generally follow the principle of light first, then darker, starting from the surface, and then dot, that is, start with light colors such as yellow and pink, and gradually use green, red, blue, and other dark color pigments. In the selection of the image position, start from the important position of the picture, such as the face of the door god. For coloring, you can first choose a large area of light color flat paint, and after it dries, use dark pigments to color the dots and lines. You can also use a brush to draw the inner or outer outline of the object, and then color it.
Note: When dealing with color superposition and two-color adjacent positions, be sure to wait for the first applied color to dry before proceeding to the coloring process of the second color, otherwise it is easy to appear the cross-color situation of two colors
黑白稿上色小帖士
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准备颜料:中国木版年画各地色彩使用习惯各有特色,但总体基本都是墨色加五到六种彩色颜料,常用的色彩为大红、藤黄和草绿,辅以粉色,紫色,蓝色等。
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上色:一般遵循先浅再深,先面后点的原则,即先从黄色,粉色等浅色开始上色,逐渐使用绿色,红色,蓝色等深色系颜料。在图像位置选择上,先从画面的重要位置开始画起,如门神的脸部,上色选择可以先选择浅色的大面积平涂,待干透后,用深色颜料进行点线的着色。也可以先用毛笔描画出物体的内部或外部轮廓线,再进行上色。
注意:处理色彩叠加和两色相邻的位置时,一定要等先涂抹的颜色干透后再进行第二种颜色的着色过程,否则容易出现串色情况
How-to Apply 更多讲究
如何选择门神、张贴、甚至怎么处理门神都是很有讲究的。
How to choose, post, and even how to deal with the door god is very particular.
怎么选你的门神
How to Choose Your Door God
门神可以根据自家需求进行选择,通常顶盔掼甲,手持武器的武将多数属于武门神,主要寓意是驱邪避凶,保护家宅平安。身着礼服的文官、仙女或童子、瑞兽,多为祈福门神,寓意主要根据门神手持的法器和神仙的传说来分辨,主要有祈福纳瑞、福寿安康、招财进宝、多子多孙等含义。
Door gods can be selected according to your own needs. The meanings are mainly distinguished from the magical instruments held by the door gods and the legends of gods. There are military god or civil god. Most of Military God are army generals with helmets and armor and weapons in hand are used to for exorcising evil and, protecting the safety of the home. Civil servants, fairies or boys, and auspicious beasts in formal attire are mostly Door gods praying for blessings.
贴哪儿
Where to Post
武将门神通常贴在临街的大门上,为了镇住鬼怪或不祥之物从大门外进入,故所供的门神多手持兵器,其他门神并没有特别禁忌。
Military general door gods are usually posted on the gate facing the street. In order to suppress ghosts or ominous objects from entering from outside the gate, most of the door gods offered are armed with weapons, and there are no special taboos for other door gods.
怎么贴
How to Post
张贴门神应以进门者为视角,贴于门两侧,画中门神以对脸相视为正确的传统贴法。民间多为平凡之命门户,贴门神所持兵器应背向以消减锋芒,大富大贵之命门户,贴门神所持兵器正向更增威严之气。
The door gods should be posted on both sides of the door from the perspective of the person entering the door. In the painting, the door gods face each other as the correct traditional posting method. Most of the folks are ordinary fate gates, and the weapons held by the door gods should be facing backwards to reduce the sharpness. For the fate of the rich and powerful, sticking the weapons held by the door gods to the front will increase the majesty.
上一年门神咋整
How to deal with the ones from last year
换下来的旧门神是不可以随意丢弃的,最好的处理方式是在洁净处烧掉,不要随意丢在垃圾桶里,寓意“辞旧迎新”。如果当天不好处理,也可以将图案向内卷好,用纸包好另找时间烧掉。
The old door gods that have been replaced cannot be discarded at will. The best way to deal with them is to burn them in a clean place instead of throwing them in the trash can, which means "letting go of the old and ushering in the new". If it is not easy to handle on the same day, you can also roll the pattern inward, wrap it in paper and find another time to burn it.
Friends of chuanmener 串门儿的朋友之
月山夕®
Over the years,
YueShanXi collected Chinese Lunar New Year Pictures from all over China.
By further reviving these arts and crafts,
We wish you could feel their beauty just like time-traveling through our culture.
多年来,
月山夕从中国各地所收藏的年画,
透过更贴近生活与使用的设计思维,
期望让这些穿越时代的
民间美术、文化的美,被更多的看见。