The author attempts to analyze and discuss the possible influence from the Chinese new-year prints and opera towards the figures paintings by Li Xia. The analysis is based upon Li Xia's subjects and the composition on the painting. Li Xia, born in Shienyo, Fukien and active in the early 20th century, been traveling among different cities in the South and North, his painting's style is powerful and vivid. Apart from inspired by the Huang Shen of the Yangzhou School, there was a supposition that he may also be influenced by the print designer Chien Huei-An and the prints made in Beijing and Tienjin. Beginning with a retrospective of the Fukien School in the Qing dynasty, the author explores the connection among the Chinese new-year prints' themes, subjects, forms, the Chinese opera and Li Xia's painting. The last chapter discusses the theatrical effect expressed on Li Xia's several works, including group and individual figure paintings. Li Xia's paitning is an example that the art surpasses the individual's motif and achieves a better influence through the level of folk art, though such influence may be conveyed through the market factor. However, art and culture that endures through times is only accomplished though the bundant energy and creativity of the public, which is indeed proved by Li Xia's artworks.