年画,伴随着我国农历春节送旧迎新的活动而产生。它起源于门神画。我国很早就有在门上贴画的习俗;画中所绘多为神话传说中的人物,用以驱邪避害。南朝梁宗檩所著《荆楚岁时记》说:“正月一日,绘二神贴户左右,左神茶,右郁垒,俗谓之门神。”唐代,又有了秦叔宝、尉迟恭、钟馗等以现实人物为蓝本的“门神”;大都画在桃木板上,挂在门前。北宋时,随着木版雕刻技术的发展,出现了木版印刷的年画,称作“纸画”;王昭君、赵飞燕等美女成为当时民间流行的年画题材。到了明末清初,年画的题材越来越广泛, New Year, accompanied by the Chinese New Year to send the old welcome new activities arising. It originated in the door god painting. My country has long been posted on the door of the custom; paintings painted mostly for the myths and legends in the characters, to exorcise evils. In the Southern Dynasty, Liang Zongtao’s “Jingchu Chronicles” said: “The first day of the first month, painted two God posted around the Buddha, left God tea, right Yu base, the popular door god.” “The Tang Dynasty, there Qin Shubao , Weichu Gong, Zhong Kui and other real people based on the ”god“; mostly painted in peach wood, hanging in front of. In the Northern Song Dynasty, with the development of wood engraving technology, New Year pictures of woodblock printing appeared, which were called ”paper drawings". The beautiful women like Wang Zhaojun and Zhao Feiyan became popular folk paintings at the time. By the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, New Year paintings became more and more popular.