若干年前,冯骥才先生在天津大学举办了一个中国民间年画展览,他为展览取名为“以画过年”(图1、图2),形象而又深刻地揭示出中国民间年画的功能、作用、性质和特色。很多年前,我也曾为我主编的一本研究介绍中国民间年画的图书使用了“民间画展”的书名。把“以画过年”和“民间画展”两个概念组合起来,中国民间年画就是中国人在过年的时候家家都在自发而又依 Several years ago, Mr. Feng Jicai held a Chinese folk art exhibition at Tianjin University. He named his exhibition “Painting the New Year” (Figure 1 and Figure 2), revealing profoundly the function of Chinese folk New Year pictures , Role, nature and characteristics. Many years ago, a book that I also edited for me to introduce Chinese folk paintings introduced the title of “Folk Paintings”. Combining the two concepts of “painting the New Year” and “folk art exhibition”, Chinese folk New Year pictures show that every Chinese family is spontaneously and in time by the Chinese New Year