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The spring of window grilles and window grilles has begun.

Window grilles are closely related to the beginning of spring, which has been the way people greet spring since ancient times. Beginning of spring has passed, your home, stick grilles? In order to welcome the spring, people in many parts of China, especially in the north, like to hang all kinds of window grilles on their windows.

Window grilles are folk paper-cut works of Han nationality, which have various colors and patterns and have a history of thousands of years. Northwest window grilles divide the complete paper-cut into four pieces with the word "ten". In order not to affect indoor lighting, window grilles are mostly cut in the sun to get more hollowed-out area. The outline of window grilles and window frames shall be dense and symmetrical.

Window grilles are closely related to the beginning of spring. Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in his poem: "Carving gold is the victory, spreading fine customs, cutting green for the people, and the golden wind is the prosperity." After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the time to cut and paste window grilles to welcome the Spring Festival began in beginning of spring, and people used paper-cutting to express their joy in celebrating spring. Window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' life, such as farming, weaving, herding sheep and raising chickens. In addition, there are myths and legends, drama stories and other themes. In addition, the images of flowers and birds, insects and fish, and the zodiac are also very common. Window grilles decorate festivals with their unique generalization and exaggeration.