Places famous for Wuhua paper-cutting

Pingyao, Shanxi Province

1. Introduction to Five-Flower Paper Cutting

Chinese Five-Flower Paper Cutting is a traditional form of folk art originating from Hebei Province. Through the form of paper cutting, the yin and yang of the five elements of the phases of the relationship between the artistic evolution of interpretation, which cleverly use the yin and yang of the five elements of the phases of the rules of the relationship between the phases of the relationship between the "heaven, earth, people" three realms of the interactions of the theoretical basis for the people of the hope for a better life and the spirit of the wish to express the expression of the people to pray for good luck, The concepts of good fortune, repelling evil and warding off evil spirits are expressed. Fully embodies the idea of "unity of heaven and mankind".

2. Artistic features

Chinese paper-cutting features, it is different from the general randomly cut other folk paper-cutting, but there is a strict composition requirements and cutting skills rules, in the cutting skills, the cutting mouth or round or square should be neat and powerful. 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 phase into connected.

A five-flower paper-cutting works, only five patterns, only five kinds of ornamentation, each kind of ornamentation only five cuts, the pattern, no matter from which angle, are connected to the pattern, is a masterpiece. In the traditional Chinese paper-cutting folk art, quite rare.

3. Art Inheritors

At present, in our country, only the twelfth generation of paper-cutting Zhang Yan, Zhang Fenglian, Liu Hairong three authentic family heirlooms, in order to not let this precious folk culture and art treasures disappeared, the twelfth generation of China's paper-cutting people, decided to organize the experts and scholars, the establishment of the "five flowers paper-cutting art research society".

And with the arts and crafts, Yijing, folklore, culture and art from all walks of life of experts and colleges and universities for academic seminars, exchanges, long-term in the universities, secondary schools and elementary school for lectures, and the selection of moral and talented talented students, masters with apprenticeship program to train the successor heir.

4. Artistic value

Chinese 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-flower paper-cutting to its shape of simple and generous, solemn and elegant colors, with a unique charm of artistic expression, artistic 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.