Traditional Cultural Knowledge of Cutting Window Flowers

Window flowers have a history of thousands of years, gradually spread in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, gradually taking shape. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the art of paper-cutting matured and reached its heyday. Window flower is China's folk paper-cutting in the widest distribution, the largest number, the most popular varieties. Divided into "North and South style", the South to "exquisite" for the beauty, characterized by exquisite and transparent; the North to the simple and vivid for the beauty, characterized by naive and thick.

The history of the window flower has been thousands of years, in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty gradually spread, gradually taking shape. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the art of paper-cutting matured and reached its heyday. Window flower is the most widely distributed, the largest number of Chinese folk paper cutting, the most popular varieties. Divided into "north and south style", the south to "exquisite" for the beauty, characterized by exquisite and transparent; the north to the simple and vivid for the beauty, characterized by naive and thick.