Although Tantou New Year Pictures and Liangping New Year Pictures share a lot of similarities in the subject matter， composition color， line format and material technology， etc， they also differ in many aspects. Both of them take the door-god as the main subject matter， and most of their door-god pictures have the similar style， while others are different. Tantou new year pictures are more symmetrical in composition， brighter in color and richer in details， while Liangping New Year Pictures are more primitive straightforward in design， more dignified in style and thicker in color. Both of them are flexible and smooth in lines， while Tantou pictures use more straight lines， geometrical patterns and characters. Most of the materials used in the two types of pictures， such as the board， nicking tool， pigment and paper， are produced locally， and the manufacturing crafts are basically the same， with only a slight difference in the raw materials of paper-making and length of time of paper-steaming.