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This paper is about New-Year woodcut prints done in the Taohuawu area of Suzhou in the Chinese Ming and Qing periods that influenced Edo period ukiyo-e.And Japanese ukiyo-e impacted Western Post-Impressionism.The subject matters of Taohuawu engravings came from Chinese folk life,and were highly decorative.The engravings were reasonably inexpensive for ordinary people.This art fonn influenced ukiyo-e directly.As a Japanese engraving expert wrote:"Chinese prints were a good model for Japanese engravings.Chinese New-Year engravings moved Japanese ukiyo-e artists so much that the new idea of ukiyo-e was influenced largely by them."[1]