What is the origin and significance of window cutting in the Spring Festival?

In the Warring States period, the use of leather engraving and silver foil engraving was exactly the same as that of paper-cutting, and their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the time to cut and paste window grilles to welcome the Spring Festival began in beginning of spring. People used paper-cutting to express their joy in the Spring Festival, which is the origin of cutting and pasting window grilles in the Spring Festival.

Window grilles are the most widely distributed, the largest number and the most popular among Han folk paper-cuts. Divided into North and South styles, the South takes "exquisiteness" as its beauty and is characterized by exquisiteness; The beauty of simplicity and vividness in the north is characterized by innocence and integrity.

Other paper-cut varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window grilles. During the Spring Festival, people spend time in stick grilles to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, and hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Extended data

The color requirements of paper-cutting are simple and complicated, and less configuration of the same color, similar color and adjacent color. Seek harmony in contrasting colors. At the same time pay attention to the proportion of colors.

If a main color is used to form the main color, the contrast of other colors will be weakened to varying degrees. Sometimes when the colors are juxtaposed and feel a little stiff, they are put in black respectively. In the main manuscript of the golden section, you can get a harmonious and lively feeling.