Yangjiabu Village is located 1.5 kilometers south of the Hanting District Government in Weifang City.

Yangjiabu Village has 380 households, 1,200 people, and a land area of ??1.65 square kilometers, including 100 hectares of cultivated land. There were settlements at the current village site during the Warring States Period.

Cultural relics from the Warring States Period were unearthed in the western part (in the present Hanting Meteorological Bureau), and pottery and bronze mirrors from the Han Dynasty were unearthed in the south of the village.

Today's Yangjiabu village was built in the Ming Dynasty.

In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Yang Boda, the ancestor of the Yang family, immigrated from Zitong County, Sichuan to Shandong by decree.

He first lived in Xiadian Village on the west bank of the Zhuo River in Hantingshe, Chongdao Township, Weizhou (later called Xiabian Village, once called Zhongyangjiabu, commonly known as Laozhuangzi). Later, due to floods, he moved back to the west port and established a new village.

It is named Xiyangjiabu based on its location, surname, and topography, and is commonly known as Yangjiabu.

Yangjiabu Village is one of the three major woodblock New Year picture producing areas in the country and the birthplace of Weifang kites.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Chonghua Township, Zitong County, Sichuan, the ancestral home of the Yang family, was the origin of New Year paintings.

Yang Boda was born into a family of New Year painters and is a well-known local woodworking painter. He is good at painting, engraving and printing techniques, as well as lanterns and paper and color making.

After coming to Shandong, he resumed his ancestral business and combined with Shandong customs, created Yangjiabu woodblock New Year pictures and founded Tongshuntang Painting Shop, which mainly sells New Year pictures and also sells kites, lanterns, paper colors, fans, cloth pendants and other folk crafts.

For more than 600 years, craftsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation, talents have emerged in large numbers, and inheritance and innovation have continued.

Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings have a wide range of themes.

They include warding off evil and bringing good luck, auspiciousness and luck, customs and sentiments, historical stories, myths and legends, novels and dramas, current affairs humor, entertainment, landscapes and flowers, auspicious animals and birds, as well as maps, calligraphy, scale songs, etc.

The main forms include civil and military door gods, fan paintings, door barriers, kang head paintings, window decorations, nave and statues of gods.

Exaggerated shape, full composition, free imagination, symbolic meaning, bright colors, and combination of pictures and text.

The craftsmanship is divided into drawing patterns, engraving woodblocks, coloring and overprinting, baking and baking, etc.

Yangjiabu kites are made from a wide range of materials, with profound meanings and diverse shapes. There are more than 300 varieties of traditional kites, which can be roughly divided into auspicious categories, longevity categories, safe categories, magical categories, love categories, flower categories, and bird and insect categories.

In terms of form, they are divided into: plate type, hard-winged type, soft-winged type, string type, and tube type.

Each type is divided into 5 models: extra large, large, medium, small and micro.

The marriage of Yangjiabu kites and woodblock New Year paintings has formed a large faction of its own.

The picture is bright, the theme is highlighted, the form is vivid, the color is strong, the contrast is strong, the shape is generous, the image is beautiful, the craftsmanship is exquisite, and both painting and calligraphy are paid equal attention to.

The process is divided into sample setting, material selection, blanking, shaping, binding, pasting, painting, assembly, corner tying, and testing and testing.

Yangjiabu kites are "good-looking, affordable, and cheap" and are deeply loved by customers.

During the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty, the village entered a prosperous stage. "Every household printed New Year pictures and every family tied a kite" appeared in the village. It was known as "hundreds of painting shops with thousands of paintings and tens of thousands of paintings".

Together with Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Taohuawu in Suzhou, it is one of the three major painting markets in the country.

During the Guangxu period, art dealers gathered every winter to compete with each other to buy. The art shops in the village stayed up all night to make New Year paintings.

There are more than 5,000 art dealers, using more than 20,000 reams of paper and printing 70 million paintings.

Contemporary artists Liu Mingjie and Yang Zhonghai created satirical and humorous New Year pictures that reflected current affairs, such as "The Empress Dowager Cixi Flees to Chang'an" and "Consciously Faced with Disgrace", which broke through the traditional New Year picture themes.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the New Year painting industry was in a depression. Dong Dashun Painting Shop invited folk painters Liu Mingjie, Yang Yuke, and Yang Wandong to innovate New Year paintings and produce practical woodblock New Year paintings, such as maps, moon cakes, scales, flower paper, etc.

He also introduced the interest of literati paintings into New Year paintings and created "Wu Tong", "Four Fragrant Flowers and Birds", "Four Screens of Landscape" and so on.

The printing process has been improved, the works are simple and elegant, can be sold all year round, and achieved good economic benefits.

Later, affected by war, political movements and the "Cultural Revolution", the painting plates were destroyed and the New Year paintings were banned.

Since the 1980s, Yangjiabu New Year paintings have been reborn.

The Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Painting Research Institute was established to conduct rescue excavations of endangered species and resume family production.

In 1986, the country's earliest and largest kite factory was built.

In the winter of 1987, the Ministry of Culture ordered 1,500 volumes (sets) of Yangjiabu New Year paintings such as "Eight Immortals", "New Year Picture Lenses" and "New Year Pictures Miniatures" and distributed them to embassies in more than 20 countries for use in international cultural exchange projects.

During this period, many folk artists went abroad to perform their skills in New Year paintings or kite making.

Party and state leaders, foreign friends and cultural celebrities have also visited Yangjiabu for inspection and guidance many times. Tourists have come in droves to observe and appreciate the Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings. Yangjiabu has become a hot spot for folk tourism in Weifang.

There are a large number of outstanding New Year painting and kite artists in Yangjiabu Village. The famous ones include Yang Tongke, who is hailed by experts as the "King of Chinese Kites"; Yang Luoshu, who was awarded the "Folk Arts and Crafts Master" by UNESCO, is known as the King of Chinese New Year Paintings.

In 2006, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Near Yangjiabu Village, there are tourist attractions such as Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden (Yangjiabu Folk Culture Ancient Village), Hantingxi Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Painting Old Workshop, Zhuohe Scenic Area, Liuyi Mountain, and Yuwang Wetland Park.

Bu kites, Weixian root carvings, Weixian radish, Yikongqiao yam, Hanting watermelon and other specialties.

Yangjiabu Village Specialty and Food Yangjiabu Kite China is the hometown of kites, with a history of more than 2,000 years since written records began.