Five flowers paper cutting art famous

Famous for the art of five-flower paper-cutting, the art of five-flower paper-cutting is most famous in Hebei.

Chinese five-flower paper-cutting is a traditional folk art form originating from Hebei Province. Through the form of paper-cutting, the relationship between yin and yang and the five elements of the phases of the evolution of artistic interpretation, which cleverly use the yin and yang and the five elements of the phases of the relationship between the rules of birth, and grams.

Based on the theory that "heaven, earth, and man" interact with each other, it expresses people's hope for a better life and their wish for spiritual support, and expresses the concepts of praying for good luck, good fortune, and repelling evil. It fully embodies the idea of the unity of heaven and mankind.

Artistic Characteristics

Chinese paper-cutting characteristics, it is different from the general randomly cut other folk paper-cutting, but there are strict compositional requirements and cutting rules, in the cutting technique, the cut or round or square should be neat and strong.

Composition must be gold, wood, water, fire, earth for the orientation, and five for the number of Yang, five for the system, five and five into connected. A five-flower paper-cutting works, only five patterns, only see five kinds of ornamentation, each kind of ornamentation only cut five cutouts, the pattern, no matter from which angle, are connected to the pattern constantly, is a masterpiece. In the traditional Chinese paper-cutting folk art, quite rare.

Origin

Chinese five-flower paper-cutting the earliest birthplace, along the Sanggan River, Yangyuan County, Hebei Province, today, the eastern hometown of the ancestors of mankind Naihewan 49 kilometers west of the north of the ancient Kaiyang Fort area.

In the 1980s, by the twelfth generation of the five flowers paper-cutting Zhang Yan, from the ancient Kaiyang Fort five flowers paper-cutting to the eastern suburbs of Beijing, Shunyi District, Mulin Town area, from then on, five flowers paper-cutting also stepped into a new era of history.

Artistic value

Chinese five flowers paper-cutting art, in the Tang Dynasty before the initial formation of the prototype, the Ming and Qing dynasties to improve the maturity of the five flowers paper-cutting to its simple and generous modeling, color solemn and elegant, with a unique charm of the artistic expression of the art of infectious force and known far and wide.

Chinese five flowers paper cutting is a set of philosophy, econometrics, aesthetics, literature, folklore, art in one cultural carrier, which has an important position in the study of folk culture in the northern region of China, is the study of folklore and econometrics of the living fossil, has a very high value of the research value and the value of historical protection.