New Year pictures
New Year picture (Chinese: 年画), is an important and popular graphic in China. Its original form door god fashioned like Spring Scrolls. Chinese New Year pictures are pinned up on doors, room walls and windows on the Chinese New Year to invite heavenly blessings and ward off disasters and evil spirits - which dates back to the Qin and Han dynasties. As each Chinese New Year arrives, every family modifies its New Year picture in order to "say goodbye to the Past and welcome the Future"　
Thanks to the invention of block printing, folk painting became popular in the Song Dynasty and reached its zenith of sophistication in the Qing. Woodcuts have become increasingly diverse in style, variety, theme and artistic form since the early 1980s.
Classification of Chinese Traditional Painting;
Taohuawu Prints of Suzhou
Suzhou was once the most prosperous region of the Chinese Empire. In addition to the region's economic prosperity, it also produced scores of Chinese intellectuals and artists. Beginning in the 16th century, Taohuawu woodblock printing played an integral role in this area's cultural heritage and history.

Mianzhu New Year Pictures of Sichuan                                  
　　Mianzhu New Year painting is a member of the main four paintings schools. It is a type of folk woodblock picture in the southeast of China and produced in Mianzhu County, Sichuan Province. It originated at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and flourished in the Guangxu Period of the Qing Dynasty. In the process of making it, people print ink line with woodblock and paint it in various colors. Mianzhu New Year picture features by its rich colors bless with ethnic characters and localized. As the composition, Mianzhu New Year picture requires symmetry and complete.

Yangliuqing New Year Pictures of Tianjin
One of China's four famous folk New Year picture styles, Yangliuqing New Year pictures originated in Yangliuqing Town, in the western suburbs of Tanjin City, in the early 17th century and flourished in the Yongzheng Period and the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. Adopting the method of integrating block printing and hand-colored decoration, it is colored after the image appears on the link lines. The characters' countenances and attires are painted in lead powder in golden color and characterized by varied themes, such as brightness, vivacity, happiness, auspiciousness and fascination, they are very popular.

Yangjiabu New Year Pictures  of Shangdong
　　As the saying goes, "Yangjiabu came into being first. The kitchen god was born next." It proves the long history of the block printing Yangjiabu New Year pictures. With manual operation the traditional way of making，it was originated in Ming Dynasty, mature in Qing Dynasty. During its early development, it was influenced by Yangliuqing New Year Pictures. Yangjiabu New Year Pictures are varies in subjects, rich in imagination; it inclines to use primitive colors, straightforward lines, and present a simple style. 

                                                年画
年画是中国一种重要的和最受欢迎的图像。和春联一样，它起源于贴门神。农历新年时要在门上，墙上，窗户上贴上年画以祈求上天的庇护, 避开灾难和邪恶；这一习俗可追溯至秦汉时期。当每个中国新年的到来时,每个家庭都换下年画“辞旧迎新”。
多亏了印刷术的发明,民间绘画风靡了宋代在清朝达到顶峰。自20世纪80年代以来，木刻版画种类日渐繁多, 风格和艺术形式的主题变得多样化。中国传统绘画的分类如下：
苏州桃花坞年画
苏州地区曾经是封建时代最繁华的区域。此外, 该地区除经济繁荣之外, 也产生了众多的中国知识分子和艺术家。在16世纪开始, 桃花坞年画开始对这个地区的文化遗产和历史起到不可或缺的作。
四川绵竹年画
绵竹年画是中国四大年画流派之一。它是一种起源于中国的东南部四川绵竹的民俗图像。它起源于明末清初，于清道光年间流行民间。在制作过程中, 人们以木板印墨线，涂上各种颜色。绵竹年画以彩绘见长，具有浓厚的民族特点和鲜明的地方特色。绵竹年画构图讲求对称、完整.
天津杨柳青年画
作为中国四个著名民间年画流派之一, 杨柳青年画起源于17世纪初天津西郊杨柳青镇，繁荣时期于雍正清朝乾隆时期。杨柳青年画采用集成方法, 等人像在图纸上成形后手工上色。画中人物的脸上, 衣装都用金黄色泽铅粉着色, 具有不同的主题, 如热情、活泼、快乐、吉祥、魅力、它们都很受欢迎。
杨家埠木版画
有俗语说: “先有杨家埠年画，后有灶王爷”， 这证明杨家埠年画的悠久历史。山东潍坊年兴起于明代，全以手工操作并用传统方式制作，清代达到鼎盛期. 在发展初期受到杨柳青年画的影响。杨家埠年画体裁广泛，想象丰富，重用原色，线条粗犷，风格纯朴。