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" Cut flower maiden " Ku Shulan: a treasure on the Loess Plateau

Renaissance One

2018-07-18 17:30

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The Loess Plateau is the The birthplace of Chinese civilization, the long history and cultural accumulation has bred a deep and colorful folk culture. In the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, the birth of a paper-cutting master for the Chinese folk paper-cutting culture painted a colorful one, she is the "cut flower lady" - Ku Shulan.

Ku Shulan, the Lady of Flower Cutting

Photo Source: "Lady of Flower Cutting - Ku Shulan" Hansheng Magazine

Ku Shulan (1920-2004), a native of Fu Village, Equator Township, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province, was one of the outstanding representatives of Chinese folk paper-cutting art, and was known as the "Lady of Flower Cutting", a master of paper-cutting. "In 1996, she was awarded the title of "Master of Folk Arts and Crafts" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Ku Shulan, nicknamed Monkey Peach, was born into a poor peasant family, and followed her father as a child, fleeing the famine for food. At the age of four, six, seven years old began to follow his mother to learn paper cutting, 17 years old when he married, after the marriage of leisure time to continue to cut paper. 1985, Ku Shulan was not very fell into the cliff in front of the house, coma for a few days after waking up to start the "shear flowers" as the theme of the creation of the paper-cutting. Her paper-cutting composition bold, bright colors, with "cut, paste, lining" three techniques to create a unique colorful paper-cutting and stickers, breaking through the traditional paper-cutting color, subject matter limitations, has been in Xi'an Artist Gallery, China Art Museum, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, and went to Taiwan, Hong Kong, for art exchanges.

Ku Shulan compares herself to the "Flower Cutting Lady", and her paper-cutting images show the vivid idyllic life of Northwest China's folklore and her rich and magical inner world, with high artistic attainments.