早在活字印刷术发明之前的唐末五代,山西的图书出版业已相当发达。年画作为图书出版业的附属产品,自然也有着辉煌的过去。现存最早的年画———《四美图》清光绪三十四年(1908年),帝俄柯兹洛夫大佐潜入甘肃黑水城(今内蒙古额济纳旗)一古塔内盗掘西夏文物时,偷携走了《四美图》? As early as the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties before the invention of movable type printing, the publishing of books in Shanxi Province was quite developed. New Year paintings as an annex to the book industry, of course, also has a brilliant past. The earliest existing New Year --- “Simei Tu” Emperor Guangxu thirty-four years (1908), the Empress Kozlov Ta Zuo dive into Gansu Heishui City (now Ejinaqi, Inner Mongolia) an ancient tower to steal Western Xia artifacts, stole Take the “four beautiful map”?