The custom of pasting New Year Prints originated from the tradition of placing Door Gods on the external doors of houses. With the creation of board carvings, New Year paintings cover a wide range of subjects. The most famous ones are Door Gods, Surplus Year after Year, Three Gods of Blessing, Salary and Longevity, An Abundant Harvest of Crops, Thriving Domestic Animals and Celebrating Spring. Four producing areas of New Year Print are Tɑohuɑwu of Suzhou, Yɑngliuqing of Tianjin, Wuqiɑng of Hebei and Weifang of Shangdong. Now the tradition of pasting New Year paintings is still kept in rural China, while it is seldom followed in cities.

貼年畫的風俗源自于把房子外面的門上貼門神的傳統(tǒng)。隨著木質(zhì)雕刻品的出現(xiàn)，年畫包含了更廣泛的主題，最出名的就是門神，三大神-福神薪神和壽神，莊稼豐收，家畜興旺，和慶祝春節(jié)。年畫的四大產(chǎn)地分別是蘇州桃花塢，天津楊柳青，河北武強和山東濰坊?，F(xiàn)在中國農(nóng)村仍然保持著貼年畫的傳統(tǒng)，而在城市里很少有人貼年畫。