The YaFiglHiqing New Year Picture
杨柳青年画
The woodcut New Year pictures of Yangliuqing have a strong flavor of life.
木刻杨柳青年画有强烈味道的生活。
People in the Yangliuqing village and 32 villages nearby, 20 kilometers from the west of Tianjin City proper, are all engaged in making New Year pictures.
距天津市区以西20公里的杨柳青村及附近的32个村庄的人,都是从事制作年画。
The New Year pictures are a unique art form with even arrangement,elegant colors and beautiful shapes.
年画是一个独特的艺术形式安排合理,颜色优雅和形状美丽。
Yangliuqing New Year pictures are different from other New Year pictures, for it is Xylograph in terms of craft.
杨柳青年画不同于其他年画，因为它是木版印刷工艺。
Xylograph of Yangliuqing originated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and matured in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when it was chosen as an article of tributes to the imperial family.
杨柳青木版画起源于明朝(1368 - 1644),成熟在清朝(1644 - 1911)被选为皇家的贡品。
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was on the decline due to the prevalence of foreign paintings.
在清朝末期,由于外国绘画的流行其走向衰落。
In the 1960s, it finally recovered its splendor and improved the craft with the support from the new government.
在1960年代,在新一届政府的支持下改善了工艺，它终于恢复了光彩。

The process of making a Yangliuqing New Year picture has a dozen steps like plotting, craving,to name a few.
杨柳青年画的制作的过程有十几个步骤像策划,刻版,等等。
It perfectly relates color and emotion,folk painting and standard paining, realism and romanticism.
它完美地把颜色和情绪,民间绘画和标准的绘画，现实主义和浪漫主义结合起来。
It covers an extensive range of subjects like folk custom, legendary stories, historic events，and opera，usually via emblems and symbols to deliver the theme.
它涵盖了大量的民俗、传奇故事、历史事件和歌剧,通常通过象征和符号传递主题。
Yangiiuqing New Year pictures are a gem of art and loved by people both at home and abroad.
杨柳青年画是珍宝般的艺术，受国内外人们的喜爱，
It is exported to Italy, France, Britain, Belgium, Japan, Canada, the US, Singapore and Mexico, etc.
出口到意大利、法国、英国、比利时、日本、加拿大、美国、新加坡和墨西哥等。