folk primitive naive chinese painting with small chinese people with white face and view from the sky. Each painting is designed by a known folk artist. The seemingly simple shapes and water-based paint (gouache) was used, which intensified the bold, clear colors on the paintings might suggest rudimentary drawing and coloring skills to the uninitiated. The illustration is basic and raw but composed brilliantly, in both the intellectual and visual sense. muted colors - not boring pastels, by any means, but subtle tints and shades. They tend to have more crispness and symmetry and a feeling of quiet akin to the mild stillness of a gently rippling lake. Their mood tends toward depictions of elegant natural and manmade beauty and serenity 金山的风土人情、金山的岁时节日、金山的人生礼仪、金山的日常生活等都是金山农民画永恒的主题。正是这些丰富多彩且有鲜明地域特征的内容成就了金山农民画，同时，观众也可以跟着农民画中描绘的内容来了解金山传统的生活样貌。