追寻逝去的年俗记忆——上海小校场年画述略

Searching For the Elapsed Folk Memories of Chinese Festivals: An Overview of the Chinese New Year Paintings Produced at Xiaojiaochang, Shanghai

早期上海小校场木版年画,深受苏州桃花坞年画影响,店铺多为仿冒桃花坞的作品。清末民初,小校场石印年画以其题材新颖、色彩艳丽、物美价廉而盛极一时,木版年画开始走向尾声。而月份牌年画的出现,又开创了中国年画史上一个特殊的辉煌时期。正是近代西方印刷技术的传入,彻底改变了中国年画的命运。上海小校场年画的嬗变,清晰地呈现了传统年画消亡的历程。

The style of early Xiaojiaochang （the Old Armor） wood engraving Chinese New Year Painting of Shanghai was deeply influenced by Taohuawu the Chinese New Year Picture of Suzhou and the works of paintings in art shops were mostly copycats of Taohuawu paintings at that time. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Xiaojiaochang stone plate Chinese New Year Paintings were extremely popular for its innovative topics, colorfulness, and inexpensiveness with good quality. The wood engraving Chinese New Year Paintings began to move toward the end. The emergence of the Chinese New Year Paintings on Calendar created a special golden era of the Chinese New Year Paintings in the history. It is the introduction of modern Western printing technology which completely changed the fate of the Chinese New Year Paintings. The transmutation of Xiaojiaoehang Chinese New Year Paintings clearly presents the history of the demise of the traditional Chinese New Year Paintings.