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The window grilles are beautiful and festive. Can someone cut the window grilles now?

Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass, which is one of the traditional folk arts of Han nationality in ancient China. It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. Window grillage is a characteristic art of farming culture, and the rural living geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art have distinctive Han folk customs and artistic characteristics. In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. Now it is only posted in the south when you get married, and it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. Stick grilles is still very popular in the north. In Fengning, Hebei Province, if there is no stick grilles during the Spring Festival, people will guess whether something happened to this family. One of the paper-cut varieties. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, the vast rural areas put paper-cuts on the windows before the Spring Festival. Generally speaking, the style of window grilles is relatively free, except for the "corner flower" stuck in the four corners and the "group flower" folded and cut, there is no restriction on its outer contour. The theme of window grilles is very wide, and there are a lot of drama stories. Window grilles are more common in the north. Window grilles can not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment, integrating decoration, appreciation and practicality. Window grilles are a kind of paper-cutting, which is a very popular folk art and has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on windows, people generally call it "window grilles". The festive word "Fu", the hopeful word "Spring", the word "More than one year" which means that life is rich, and all kinds of animals with realistic and simple shapes are popular window patterns during the Spring Festival. Window grillage is also a unique traditional art in China, but with the development of the times, the shadow of window grillage is less and less seen. Personally, I think there are two main reasons why windows is forgotten in people's field of vision:

1, the fault of craft inheritance:

The skill of "baking windows" passed down from history should be passed down as a culture. However, due to various practical reasons, no one is willing to learn, which leads to the fault of inheritance. And the written version of the complaint we learned from the internet can't make everyone learn and experience well, which is also a kind of "sadness" of traditional culture.

2, the emergence of alternative products:

With the development of the times, in the previous Spring Festival or festive days, "every household" will have the figure of window grilles, but the times are always progressing, and the substitute products of window grilles appear slowly, which is also the main reason why window grilles are slowly forgotten. Because the production of window grilles is complicated, it is difficult to make them by machine, so it is difficult to appear before our eyes in the era of rapid development.

Intangible cultural heritage:

Carved paper-cutting is a national intangible cultural heritage project and one of the typical representatives of traditional folk crafts in China. The famous ones are Xiaogan paper-cut, Mianyang paper-cut and Peach Blossom paper-cut.