Paper-cut material

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the advocacy of advanced intellectuals such as Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Liu Bannong and Zhou Zuoren, the May 4th New Culture Movement laid the embryonic form of China folklore.

They widely collect folk literature and materials, and also try to collect folk art works, including folk paper-cutting. In 1930s, the artist Chen Zhinong started the research and creation of folk paper-cutting in Beijing. In the form of sketches and silhouettes, he described a large number of local conditions and customs in old Beijing, such as street vendors, workshop craftsmen, food stalls and tea pickers, fairs and temple fairs, and idle people in markets.

In the 1940s, paper-cutting with real life as its theme began to appear. 1942, Mao Zedong's speech at Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art pointed out the literary policy of "literature and art serve the workers, peasants and soldiers".

Since then, artists from Lu Yi, Yan 'an, such as Chen Shuliang, Zhang Ding, Li Qun, Gu Yuan, Xia Feng, etc., began to learn local folk paper-cuts with a deep mass base, collected, excavated, sorted out and studied folk paper-cuts, and created a large number of new paper-cuts reflecting the production, life and fighting of the people in the border areas.

Extended data:

Monochrome paper-cutting is the most basic form of paper-cutting. Paper-cutting has many colors, such as red, green, brown, black and gold, which are mainly used for window decoration and embroidery. There are mainly three ways of expression: yin engraving, yang engraving and the combination of yin and yang.

Paper-cutting of embroidery patterns is often combined with cutting and stabbing. Stitching is to use the needle tip to stab small points in the details of the pattern, leaving a "hidden knife" in some parts, which can be used as the basis for changing needles in embroidery. Folding paper-cutting, silhouette and tearing paper are all manifestations of monochrome paper-cutting.

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