About 400 words of paper-cut or Suzhou embroidery, similar to explanatory text.

Paper-cutting is a popular art form in China. It has a long history. It shows its unique artistic vitality with its strong decoration and interest. Like bright stars, it decorates houses and the environment, beautifies people's lives, and expresses the true feelings of working people with a kind, simple, popular and beautiful artistic expression. Paper-cut art is inextricably linked with our lives and folk customs.

According to research, paper-cutting originated from various ancient crafts, and was born out of patterns and ornamentation with national characteristics such as ceramics, bronzes, embroidery and sculpture, and evolved into a unique paper-cutting art in China.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying that "paper-cut is a small flag". The pieces of "Watson" carved with gold foil ("Watson", the jewelry of ancient women) are works in the form of paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty and have been preserved to this day. It comes from the folk, starting from the forms of "flowers", window grilles, tags and so on, and has developed into a handmade art with both ornamental and practical value.

Paper-cutting has the characteristics of simple composition, clean shape, bright lines and clear black and white, and its forms are beautiful and diverse (such as positive paper-cutting, negative paper-cutting, color matching paper-cutting, contrasting paper-cutting, symmetrical paper-cutting and so on).

Paper-cutting is full of decorative interest, including flowers, fish, insects, birds and animals, people and so on. Paper-cutting in Ansai, Shaanxi, Yuxian, Hebei, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Nanjing, Foshan, Guilin, Helen and other places has regional characteristics.

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