The easiest way to cut paper

Simple paper cutting is as follows:

Fold square craft paper in half on both sides. Fold both sides in reverse to the center. Fold the two short sides in half.

Fold the bottom edge toward the center. Fold the top half in thirds. Cut a small mitered corner. Fold the first crease in half and cut the small corner. Draw the right half. Cut out the right half of the blessed character.

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is intertwined with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities.

The visual images and modeling formats inherited from the past contain rich cultural and historical information, and express the public's social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life, and aesthetic interests, which have multiple social values such as cognition, edification, expression, lyricism, entertainment, and communication.

On May 20, 2006, the paper-cutting art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the Chinese paper-cutting project declared by China was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In December 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the Chinese paper-cutting Chinese outstanding traditional culture inheritance base.