摘要
杨柳青镇位于天津市西，明代称“古柳口”，因盛产杨柳得名，自古风光优美，水运发达，有北方“小苏杭”之称。杨柳青年画据传始于明代万历年间，盛于清代中叶，从业者甚多，有“家家都会点染，户户皆善丹青”之誉。2006年，杨柳青年画入选第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。
From a historical point of view, folk arts can be deemed as the "image-based historical records" of a nation. Yangliuqing Spring Festival Paintings can be classified as folk arts by category. It started from the Wanli age of Ming Dynasty, and rose to its gold age in Qing Dynasty, during which there were so many practitioners dedicated to this handicraft as that "every household is good at painting and everyone is able to embellish paintings".
