年画是一种百姓喜爱的大众化的艺术品。旧京的年画大多来自天津的杨柳青地区,那一带是我国三大年画产地之一。早些年新闻电影制片厂曾拍过纪录片《杨柳青年画》,那里面有许多珍贵的画面。我记忆较为深刻的是1949年以前,一个外国人在北京拍的一组镜头:在旧京的街头巷尾,一个衣着破旧的小贩,腋下夹着一个芦苇帘子包裹的长条包,一边走,一边不 New Year pictures are popular arts that people like. Most of the Old Beijing New Year pictures are from the Yangliuqing area in Tianjin, and that area is one of the three major New Year production sites in China. In the early years, the news film studio had filmed the documentary “Yangliu Youth Painting” and there were many precious pictures there. What I remember more deeply was a series of shots taken by a foreigner in Beijing before 1949: On the streets of old Beijing, a shabby hawker with a long strip of parcels wrapped in a reed curtain, while walking, Do not