Essay: Cutting Window Flowers

My best trick--Cutting Window Flowers

My best trick is cutting window flowers, which I learned from my aunt. The craft of window cutting is most easily used during festive occasions.

Now let me tell you why I became interested in cutting window flowers! That time my grandfather and grandmother took me to my aunt's house to play. One day, I saw my aunt cutting window flowers, and cutting fast and good-looking. I began to envy my aunt and asked her to teach me how to cut window flowers. Seeing that I was so sincere, my aunt agreed. My heart was pounding, thinking, "Can I learn how to cut a window decoration that is so difficult? My aunt began to teach me. She first folded the paper in a certain shape, and then she cut out a small figure on the paper according to the shape. Just like that, a window flower was cut out, I opened my window flower and looked at it, ah! It's so beautiful.

After I learned this trick, I practiced it every day when I was home from school and at school, whenever I had time. As the days went by, my handiwork got better and better, and I ended up going to a craft competition at school. I started by changing an old desk calendar into a diary and then pasting a window flower I cut on the cover. I did a particularly good job of changing it, and as a result, won third prize at school. Every time I cut a window flower I would take it to my mom and dad for critique, and as long as they said yes, my heart was sweeter than honey.

I love handmade crafts, and my favorite part of handmade crafts is cutting window flowers, I must continue to work hard and try to cut better next time.

So little reward handwriting is impossible lah~~~

So help you very find a

Third grade~~~ I do not know enough to qualify

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Cutting Window Flowers

Last year I went back to my hometown for New Year's Eve, and I saw that the windows of every house were covered with all kinds of window flowers, people, flowers, cows, and fish. ...... all of them are alive and well and look great. Each pattern of the windowpane represents a meaning. The windows of my house are also covered with big roosters and big carp. I heard my mom say that these are pasted on New Year's Eve to make everything go well in the new year and to receive wealth and blessings. The big carp means that there will be plenty of money in the new year, and the big rooster means good luck. When I saw a Fu (福) character pasted upside down on the door, I asked my mom what it meant and why it was pasted that way. My mom told me that "福倒" means "福到", which means "fortune has come to our house". I was so happy when I saw that I had everything to eat, drink and wear at home, and I was so happy that the blessing had really come to our home!

I was very curious and wanted to try, so I asked my mom to teach me how to cut window flowers. Mom took out a large piece of red paper, folded it eight times, and then used scissors to cut a circle in the center and on the sides. Then she opened the cut window flower, I took a look, it turned out that she was cutting a window flower of spring blossoms, swallows flying butterflies dancing. I followed the example, also imitated my mother's style cut a spring blossom window, mom said: "cut good, like a look. Spring is coming, you have to study hard, don't let down this great time."

I remembered my mother's words and studied hard, and when I had time, I also cut some swallows and butterflies and pasted them on the window of my little bedroom.

I love window flowers, and I love my hometown even more!

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Our Chinese traditional culture is profound and has a long history. Today, let me introduce paper-cutting to you!

The content of paper-cutting contains a strong flavor of life. Fish, insects, birds and animals, flowers, trees, pavilions, bridges and landscapes that people are familiar with and love the natural scenery has become the pattern of paper-cutting. Whenever the New Year or festivals or happy events, people have to cut some of the "blessed" characters, "happy" characters and other old to celebrate.

The images portrayed in the paper-cutting are exquisite and lifelike. Let's take a look at this "Fairy"! Four fairies with different attitudes, dancing, their arms wrapped in light and smooth ribbon, is gently swinging with the wind. Look at this "squirrel picking grapes". See it wagging its big fluffy tail, small eyes staring at the purple big grapes, afraid of being other small animals to snatch away.

There are also interesting folk stories in the paper cuts! This paper cutting is about the story of "the mouse marrying". Look! Mice carrying a sedan chair, the groom proudly, the big cat on the side of the envy of the envious. Originally, the story is like this: the mouse father wants to find a good son-in-law for his daughter. Mouse mother said the sun is the best, the sun said the cloud is the best, the cloud said the wind is the best, the wind said the wall is the best, the wall said the mouse is the best. Best of all, the little mouse got a bride.

What a beautiful paper cutting! It's so endearing!

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The reason why I love paper cutting is because of my childhood life in the countryside. In the countryside, as long as the New Year's festivals, to welcome the marriage, every family has to paste the windowpane.

The countryside is simple and simple hidden in the spirit of the show, childish in the smart, a pair of scissors, a colorful paper, will fly out of the thousands of world. You cut a pair of cats, she cut a tiger,...... the two exchanged each other, not only to meet the needs of their own families, but also contact the feelings of the townspeople, the countryside people pure and simple, passionate performance to the fullest. I was in such an environment, by the old grandmother day by day to pull big. My grandmother was an expert in paper-cutting. Although she was old and blind, her concentration on paper-cutting was unimaginable. Whether flying in the sky, running on the ground, but so light in her paper-cutting spirit. Her paper-cutting, all of them are simple and childish, such as the Taoist priests drawing, in the casual to see the craftsmanship, spontaneous. I have a strong interest in paper-cutting because I have been exposed to it through my own eyes and ears.

I'm a bit of a weirdo, and once I'm convinced, I'll go down the same road. When I first learned how to cut paper, my grandmother was strongly against it. Out of pure and simple understanding, said the male child to do this work is no good, and I was obsessed, always pestering my grandmother. Grandmother took her precious grandchildren can not, had to even out some colored paper. At the beginning, of course, you need paper samples, which is equivalent to copying in painting and tracing in calligraphy. Gradually they set aside the paper samples, let their own temperament, such an interest has continued until I went to the county high school, busy with school, had to give up, and since then more than a decade, almost never moved to cut. Even if you have moved, it is purely by chance.

After work, there is no time. Once at a colleague's wedding, the bride's limousine will be traveling, only to find that less big red "happy" word, a moment of urgency in a room full of people. I introduced myself, and it was a relief. Since then, about my paper cuts in the unit will spread. So, when my coworkers have a wedding, they often ask me to help. Some bring colored paper, some simply bring only a mouth, I am happy to comply with the order, which is naturally related to my good and bad. Therefore, I am always carefully designed, in the cutting method, font, and around the collocation on the strive to change: some of the dragon and phoenix auspicious, some butterflies and bees flying, some magpies haunted by plums, and some even with each other ...... are all taken from the traditional connotations of a happy marriage, good luck and good fortune. When I appreciate my work, the kind of comfort that has never been born, such as standing in the remote field, breathing the fragrance of the soil.

I have always been a man of the old-fashioned, this is of course due to the character, but there are times when I joke with people. I have a friend, more active character, always like to play tricks on people, I have not eaten his loss. When he got married, he naturally asked me for a happy word. I clip a pair of cats and dogs embracing and kissing the paper cuts. Two things naive, very amusing. Originally just a joke, I do not know whether the person who posted it intentionally or unintentionally, will actually stick this paper cut on the bedside table in the bridal chamber. Until after the cave, the bride and groom on the red halo on the fly, only began to realize that the two are really laughing and crying. Since then, every time you talk about it, you can't help but laugh and curse.

Two, paper-cutting

Now the little girl, how much is like paper-cutting, once in class to teach my students paper-cutting, they cheered, in front of the glass in front of them pasted full of their own works, then looked at the classroom, which became very folk, but also touched.

Really, there are not many people who like it anymore, like the girls in the past, a piece of red paper, a pair of scissors, to send idle feelings is really not much. Bun dolls can avoid disaster, if the first to the seventh day of the first month, every day to cut a kind of animal paste, is a year of good weather, big ghosts and small ghosts can not enter the door.

The very old and interesting legend, accompanied by the white background of the window paper on the red window, ancient China is pure elegance and charming. It is that it has been washed away again and again by the years, and the soul is lost in a flash.

In fact, that is really a process of enjoyment, lay a red paper, drawing favorite patterns, hinged with scissors, scissors tip pick digging, fine, a flower and a leaf, a brow, indulge in the situation, I do not know the days and months long. Those fine movements, the hand also has pleasure, very primitive and clear pleasure.

And cut into things, even if some details are broken, very bad, all cut look, will not show at all, how to look good, it itself is childish, the beauty of the form, Ying Ying a piece of joy, very inclusive.

And embroidery is the same, I went to college, I was across the bunk of a girl, people look very beautiful, once leaning on the bed, with the sunlight outside the window lazily embroidered a silver reed, that scene I remembered for a long time.

I always felt that it was a lost fairy tale for girls.

Now this fairy tale everyone has not love to do, and my husband as my faithful audience also love it, his whim when he accompanied me to do, buried in the bitter digging, the hand is actually more skillful than me. Every time you can cut out the renovation of the pattern, idle even send, very self-satisfied. Until one day, he saw people on the street to sell paper-cutting, very complex and beautiful pattern, one can only sell 10 dollars. His sense of fairy tale immediately struck, downcast, for China's ancient handicrafts all the way to the injustice.

In fact, there is no injustice, none of us have the ability to maintain an ancient folk tradition, what we do for ourselves is just a game to pass the days and months, and then pretend to be a little more profound, but also to find some peace and mood outside the real life.

But I do sometimes wonder if, in a few generations, we will have to go to a museum if we want to see these handmade, quaint and beautiful paper cuttings again.

What a shame that would be.

Three, the courtyard deep dream paper-cut

From the cloud's wedding back, more back to her new room in the paper-cutting and window panes pasted on the various colors of the window flowers, that is our peer to Pingyao when the best gift harvest.

One summer dusk, bathed in the glow of the setting sun, we met in the ancient city of Pingyao. The ancient city is really a bit old, the mottled city walls are full of vicissitudes and bleakness, and even the broken bricks and walls are filled with the smell of war. But I like the faint scent of vinegar in the air, the smell of dust, and the strong flavor of people in the art of paper-cutting.

After checking into the Xirentai Inn, I searched for my room in the deep labyrinthine courtyard, traversing several corridors, passing by the "Flowering Moonlight", "Other Caves", "Heavenly Cave", "Heavenly Cave", "Heavenly Cave", "Heavenly Cave", "Heavenly Cave", "Heavenly Cave" and "Heavenly Cave". I looked for my room in the maze-like deep courtyard, traversed several corridors, and passed by the huts of "Good Flowers and Moonlight", "A Different Kind of Heaven", "Heavenly Shadow", and "Tranquility to the Far Side", etc. In front of the rolled-up door hung with red lanterns and window-paneled windows, I saw the words of "Temperance and Mindfulness". In front of the roll-up door with red lanterns and window decorations, I saw the words "Temperance and Brightness", which is my home tonight and the home I have been longing for all my life. Put down the luggage, do not have time to think about it, and the cloud to run to the market of the ancient city. Perhaps the night of the old city is the most charming, those along the streets of the red lanterns lit up, joyful smile to welcome the guests from the north and south, pasted with windowpane glass is lit by indoor lights, hazy between a lot of warmth of nostalgia, and the cloud and I head into the paper-cutting family Li Xiuying's store, consumed most of the night time.

Yun was in the paper-cutting store picking out different styles of wedding characters for her own wedding, while I was senselessly drawn in, mesmerized by the art of paper-cutting, either plain or colored. Those large or small, round or square, single or overlapping paper-cutting patterns, bright lines, smooth, rich, condensed content, moral enlightenment, far-reaching, so that it is as if people entered the Garden of Eden beyond the red dust, is the eyes of the world's colors, ears of the world's sound, the body of the world's peace, the world's mouth after the extreme light of a baptism of the soul. Such as "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy", "Hundred Butterflies", "Eight Sections of Peace", "Five Poisons of Harmony", "Four Harmonies", "Double Happiness", etc., linking the Chinese auspicious numbers with the year's festivals, making people more eager for the mysterious match of all things in the universe and between heaven and earth; those flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and beasts are lifelike, and have everything! The flowers, birds, fishes, insects, birds and beasts are vivid and full of life, which makes people intoxicated in the harmony with nature **** place, and the living beings are closely related to the paradise on earth; some representative characters such as "Sage Confucius", "Dream of Red Mansions", "Water Margin", and theater Characters, such as face painting, but also exquisite, realistic, not only make people appreciate the paper-cutting at the same time taste the fusion between the works of art, but also feel the art of paper-cutting in the long history of traditional Chinese culture. Folk artists that a pair of skillful hands, how the world of all living things, folklore gathered in a small scissors under? Give a person the enlightenment of the soul, sentiment cultivation, philosophical thinking of life, breathtaking. Paper-cutting and stamps, sparks have the same ornamental value, but also has the value of beautifying life. New Year's festivals, marrying a wife and daughter, birthday period, red, yellow and other colors cut window flowers pasted on the lintel or glass, fresh, generous, so that the home of the compound is full of joy, full of vitality. Cloud in the cozy paper-cutting home, selected for their own many exquisite paper-cutting, and imagine and her "hundred children figure" satin bedding reflected together, must be a unique style, fashion through the traditional. When I entered the marriage hall more than ten years ago, I had also pasted all kinds of paper cuttings on the windows, lintels and bedheads of my new house, but at that time, I had asked my friends to cut them, and there were not so many new patterns. To this day, I still have a large "heart to heart" of flowers and birds double happiness, which represents a ceremony, but also a traditional wedding of the classical complex.

The store was about to close before we reluctantly returned to the inn. In fact, in Pingyao, the hometown of paper cuttings, paper cuttings are ubiquitous, whether it is a restaurant, an inn, or a farmhouse, almost any place with a window will be pasted with a few paper cuttings, monochrome paper cuttings are rugged and simple, while the colorful paper cuttings are gentle and soft, and the patterns of the paper cuttings are often meant to imply good luck and blessings. For example, the chicken and ruyi design means good luck; lotus and fish design means that there are more than one year; "eight sections of the Cornucopia" means that the whole year is safe and sound, healthy; plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo means that the gentleman's temperament.

The window of my place is pasted with a picture of children playing, which corresponds to the theme of "indifferent and clear-minded", and on the wall of the house is a poem by the Tang Dynasty's Zhu Qingyue, which reads: "The night of the cave is the night of the stopping of the red candles, and to be worshiped by the aunt in front of the hall in the morning, and the makeup is done with the whispering of my husband's husband, 'The depth of the painted eyebrow is shallow, and the depth of the eyebrow is shallow, and the depth of the eyebrow is shallow, and the depth of the eyebrow is shallow. "How can you stop the red candles on the night of the bridal chamber, and then worship your aunt in front of the hall at dawn. It was a bit more elegant and seemed to cater to the bride-like mood of the first time travelers to Pingyao. Lying on the bed on your back, you can enjoy the starry summer night sky through the skylight on the roof. A feeling arose that one can easily get lost in the old city, and if one does not tell anyone where one is tonight, who cares about where one is coming from and where one is going? Even if you tell your friends and family in Pingyao Old Town, in a corner of this deep courtyard, a hut, who will find it? Think of those paper cuttings, those birds, flowers, characters alive and well, dancing beside me, fluttering in the ancient city, blossoming in many people's dreams, the heart is much more solid, quietly into the night of the ancient city.

"I don't know that I am a guest in my dream", I will definitely dream and get drunk tonight, dreaming that I have become a one-night bride in Pingyao, and drunkenly become a red face with paper cuttings.