Geographical background of the formation of paper-cut art and culture in northern Shaanxi

Yulin paper-cut is a precious cultural heritage of Han nationality in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, the essence of paper-cut in northern Shaanxi, and a wonderful flower of Han folk art with the most frontier cultural characteristics. For thousands of years, Yulin paper-cut has been integrated into people's lives in the form of window flowers, wedding flowers, longevity flowers, health flowers and sacrificial flowers. And become an indispensable social landscape for generations.

? Geographical background:? A large part of the origin of paper-cutting comes from folk witchcraft of praying for good luck and exorcism. In the past, people often felt that they were being played by fate. Even if they master the farming season and solar terms well, they can't bring good weather, and hard work and kindness can't guarantee the health of the whole family. Natural and man-made disasters have become a huge shadow hanging over people's minds, because farmers depend on the sky for food after all.

? The style characteristics of folk paper-cutting in northern Shaanxi: it has the characteristics of rough expansion, grandeur, simplicity and simplicity in the northern region. However, due to the similarity of regional environment, living customs and aesthetic concepts, paper-cutting varies from place to place. For example, the paper-cuts in Yan 'an, Yulin, Dingbian, Jingbian and Suide are mostly monochrome paper-cuts, with simple and rough styles.