Creator:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-04-14T23:51:38.000Z

Views:

489

Video Title:

Chinese New Year’s Prints

Description:

During the Spring Festival, which marks the new year in China, people hang colorful prints on doorways, walls, and other surfaces to bring good luck to their families, homes, and businesses. Among the best-known types are the Yangliuqing woodblock prints, named for a small town near Tianjin, eighty miles southeast of Beijing. The bright colors, graceful lines, and traditional subjects of the Yangliuqing print tradition date back to the sixteenth century. The process includes outlining, carving, printing, and applying additional color with a fine brush. It may take a group of artists forty days to complete one print. The prints may be hand-drawn or painted, or made with woodblocks or lithographs. The content of New Year’s prints usually center around four themes: the immortals and mascot, the secular life, the baby and beauty, and the story and myth, all of which are important archetypes in Chinese religion and folklore. Learn more about New Year’s prints: https://s.si.edu/2VA08t4 Editing: Jackson Harvey [Catalog No. CFV11268; © 2019 Smithsonian Institution]

Video Duration:

1 min 46 sec

YouTube Keywords:

culture music performance tradition folk language festival smithsonian "washington dc"

YouTube Category:

People & Blogs  Search this

Topic:

Cultural property  Search this

See more by:

smithsonianfolklife

Data Source:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianfolklife

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_2twgfL2g2rQ