Yangliuqing Town



This is a place with flourishing poplars and willows, a place once prosperous for and commuted by
canals, and a place with the charm of ancient Chinese culture. This is the ancient town Yangliuqing, with
one-thousand-year history.

In North China, it would be a blessing for a town if there were a river running around, Southern Canal and
Ziya River have nourished Yangliuqing, it was between the two rivers one thousand years ago that the
town came in to being witnessing the changes of time. Yangliuqing developed and flourished alongside
the rivers. Without water, trees, there wouldn’t be such a town as today’s Yangliuqing.

Yangliuqing’s wood engraving paintings could be found wherever the Chinese paintings are collected. From ancient to modern times, Yangliuqing
has won its reputation around the world for the elaborate, colorful, gimmicky, and allegorical wood engraving paintings for Spring Festival.

The Chinese Spring Festival pictures are made mainly by combined techniques of wood-block printing and hand painting. Being ingenious and
unique in composition, fresh and smooth in line, vivid and life-like in form, and strong and rich in the flavor of life, Yangliuqing Chinese Spring
Festival pictures generally take ancient beauties, lovely children, folk customs or stories from classical operas, myths and legends as their source
materials.

Yangliuqing is well-known not only for the diligent people and incomparable paintings, but also for the famous
architecture. Famed as the “First House in Tianjin”, Shijia Grand Courtyard is located in Yangliuqing. The Countyard is
decorated with brick sculptures, wood plaque, and stone carvings around five doors, ten yards, and over 2000 rooms.
Abound with colorful paintings and grid fans, the courtyard is so far the best protected and largest civilian building.

With flourishing trade and commerce, Yangliuqing also boasts scenic beauty such as South Canal landscape,
Brightness Temple, the Ming and Qing Street. Yangliuqing is a place with natural beauty and distinctive culture.
Representing fortune, civilization, Yangliuqing leaves people with lasting happy memories.