Visual images in the Chinese New Year picture “Witticism”: inner and outer semantics

Authors

  • Юлия Геннадьевна Лемешко

Abstract

The Yangliuqing New Year picture “Witticism” is analyzed in detail. Pictures of this type first appeared in the town of Yangliuqing in the early 17th century; they are a truly remarkable example of Chinese folk art. The main subject of the Yangliuqing New Year pictures is always closely associated with human desires and unique language of Chinese people.
Witticisms, which are in fact two-part allegorical sayings rich in humour and imagination, belong to folk language. They provide invaluable ethnographic and historical material by depicting people’s lives through language.

Keywords:

Chinese folk art, nianhua, New Year picture, Yangliuqing New Year picture, witticism, two-part allegorical saying

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Published

2010-06-21

How to Cite

Лемешко, Ю. Г. (2010). Visual images in the Chinese New Year picture “Witticism”: inner and outer semantics. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (2), 61–66. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/1917

Issue

No. 2 (2010): Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies

Section

Geocultural spaces and codes of the cultures of Asia and Africa

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