A snapshot of the pictures on display at the Yangliuqing New Year Painting Museum, on April 28, 2017. (Photo by Liu Jie/provided to chinadaily.com.cn)

5. The Yangliuqing New Year Painting Museum

The Yangliuqing New Year Painting Museum showcases traditional Chinese New Year paintings as well as its history and masterpiece artworks, and demonstrates procedures to create the traditional way of painting.

The famous folk wood carving painting first began in the old town of Yangliuqing during the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when locals portrayed their hopes for a better life with knives and paint brushes, using wood plates as canvases.

A typical Yangliuqing New Year painting portrays a chubby child holding a big fish, wishing for an affluent New Year. The paintings are usually hung on walls and doors to seek blessings during the lunar New Year.

Huo Qingshun, an inheritor of the Yangliuqing New Year painting, teaches a visitor to use an ink mold to create a sketch of the traditional painting, April 28, 2017. (Photo by Liu Jie/provided to chinadaily.com.cn) Huo Qingshun, an inheritor of the Yangliuqing New Year painting, teaches a visitor to use an ink mold to create a sketch of the traditional painting, April 28, 2017. (Photo by Liu Jie/provided to chinadaily.com.cn) If you go:

West of Shijiadayuan Courtyard, Guyi Street, Yangliuqing town. 022-2794 5662

Ticket: 10 yuan