Artists create traditional woodblock New Year paintings at a workshop in Yangjiabu Village in Weifang, Shandong Province on January 3, 2024. /CFP
Artists create traditional woodblock New Year paintings at a workshop in Yangjiabu Village in Weifang, Shandong Province on January 3, 2024. /CFP
Artists create traditional woodblock New Year paintings at a workshop in Yangjiabu Village in Weifang, Shandong Province on January 3, 2024. /CFP
An artist creates traditional woodblock New Year paintings at a workshop in Yangjiabu Village in Weifang, Shandong Province on January 3, 2024. /CFP
Artists in Yangjiabu Village in Weifang City, east China's Shandong Province, are busy creating woodblock New Year paintings to meet market demand during the upcoming Spring Festival. Woodblock New Year paintings involve delicate processes which take a year of hard work by the artists. The Yangjiabu New Year paintings were listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage forms in 2006, owing to the elaborate craft skills involved. Chinese people usually buy New Year paintings as home decorations, in the hope of receiving blessings in the year ahead.