A New Year's Reunion blends traditional Chinese culture, essence of modern life, and a child's inner feelings, and becomes a moving work with humanity, historical sensibility, and aesthetic beauty. The story has a natural narrative instead of exaggerated rhetoric and exploited emotion. Its theme implicit, emotional expression mild, and structure well-trimmed. The text offers a solid foundation for the pictures, and leaves the illustrator vast space for creativity. The illustrator understands the artistic law that images in picture books are design art. The elements of New Year paintings initiate a series of imaginative and creative designs that stick to the essence of the story, such as the use of menjian (New Year door decorations), the style of endpapers, comic-style panels, pictures on double-page spreads, the interlacing of pictures big and small, the echo of front and back cover pictures, etc. (In the Xinyi edition, the layout of the opening pages is more coherent and complete.) These artistic designs strengthen the expression of the visual narratives. The text and picture thus complement each other and the artistic effect is enhanced. The simple painting style gives forth Chinese aesthetic taste, and subtly reveals the inner feelings of the characters in their gestures that demonstrate the illustrator's proficiency in characterization.