How fun is traditional paper turning flower

The paper flower is a traditional paper craft in China, which is a favorite toy for children.

It is made of special paper with good tensile strength and strong water-absorbency as the main raw material, and is processed through more than 20 (handmade) procedures, such as pasting, chiseling and cutting, and over-dyeing.

Paper-cutting

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. Its inherited visual image and modeling format contains a wealth of cultural and historical information and expresses the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public.

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty (6th century B.C.), before which the emergence of the art of paper-cutting was impossible, but at that time, people used thin sheet materials, made of artifacts through openwork carving techniques, but as early as when there was no paper has been popular, i.e., carving, skeletonizing, picking, carving, shearing techniques in the gold foil, leather, silk, and even in the leaves of the tree cut patterns.

"Historical Records" in the cut Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty King Cheng with the sycamore leaves cut into "Gui" given to his brother, sealed Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. The warring states period on the leather skeleton (hubei jiangling wangshan one chu tomb unearthed one of the artifacts).

Silver foil skeleton engraved flowers (one of the excavated artifacts in the village of Huixian, Henan, solid surroundings of the Warring States site), are the same with the paper-cutting withdrawal, their emergence for the formation of folk paper-cutting has laid a certain foundation.