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New Year paintings of people have been among the historic old in China, can be tracked back to the door painting such as "New Year kuplet" ghost in the decline of Han Dynasty.In the Song Dynasty, with woodcut printing start cungkilan used in making wood. Because with woodcut printing, painting New Year can be issued a massive and can be sold in the market, the New Year cungkilan timber developed at the Song Dynasty.Start Song Dynasty, the actual New Year cungkilan timber developed from worshipful nature of the gods and to mengalu-alukan harmony and bahagi, and the next plot opera and traditional customs, and express feelings and ideals of the farmers. Know New Cungkilan timber also has a specialty, usually meaning they must be understood with the language, which is homofoni in Mandarin. For example depict bats, because bats in Mandarin lafalnya "Bian Fu," and "Fu" is the same as the pronunciation lafalnya "happy" in Chinese, the painting was meant happy. In the form of expression, wood cungkilan New Year to take a painting among the people and the traditional pattern of excess interest or painting or paintings Western scholars, using the technique of printing with woodcut pattern and create a certain type.From the Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty so, New Year paintings became very popular and be fancied by many people. Bright colors, a lot of abortion, such as "Cow Pictures in season flowers," "You really really Yu", "Rich Harvest" and others. And at that time, in China there are several centers of wood cungkilan New Year, and 3 wood cungkilan famous New Year, the New Year cungkilan wood Yangliuqing Tianjin, Suzhou Taohuawu and Yangjiabu Kaunti Wei, Shandong cungkilan wood is a representative New Year. Until the Qing dynasty, cungkilan wood Chinese New Year suffer a setback due to implantation technique of printing stone West.