Preserved in a Foreign Land, A Reference for Civilization:
A Study on the Artistic Characteristics and Value of Chinese Opera New Year
Paintings in Japan
ZHOU Yang
Abstract:Opera-themed New Year paintings are an important form of Chinese folk art. They keep a lot of the aesthetic habits and moral ideas from late Qing society. Because Japan is close to China and has a long history of cultural exchange with China, it became one of the first countries to systematically collect these paintings. This paper looks at the Chinese opera-themed New Year paintings kept in Japan. From a cross-cultural perspective, it does three things: firstly, it describes how these paintings were collected and how they are grouped; secondly, it analyses their way of telling stories through images and their artistic style; thirdly, it discusses the value of these works for art and cultural research.Through this example, we hope to understand how traditional Chinese culture was accepted, changed and passed down in another country.
Key words:Chinese New Year Paintings Collected in Japan; Opera-themed New Year Paintings;Iconography of Chinese Opera; Cross-cultural Communication
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