The meaning and symbol of the New Year pictures is to wish a happy New Year and a happy family. The New Year pictures have bright colors and all-inclusive themes. Most of them are painted with auspicious patterns of flowers, birds, figures and auspicious animals, which express people's yearning and pursuit for a better life. They are the artistic treasures of folk culture. The New Year pictures symbolize people's hope for the future, blessing Nagy's concept of survival and reproductive concept of offspring.

New Year pictures are not only a colorful ornament for New Year festivals, but also a carrier and tool for cultural circulation, moral education, aesthetic communication and belief inheritance. It is also a kind of pictographic reading for the masses. For the New Year pictures on current affairs, it is also a kind of popular media.