How did the name "windowpane" come about?

Window flowers have a history of thousands of years, gradually spread in the Song and Yuan dynasties, gradually taking shape.

The art of paper-cutting matured during the Ming and Qing dynasties and reached its peak. Han traditional paper-cutting handmade art of a wider range of applications, such as Han folk lanterns on the flower decoration, fan decoration, as well as embroidery patterns, etc., are not the use of paper-cutting as a decorative into the reprocessing. And more Chinese Han folk often paper cut as decorative home ornaments, beautify the home environment, such as door stacks, window flowers, cabinet flowers, happy flowers, roof flowers are used to decorate the doors and windows, room paper cut. In addition to the paper-tie pattern craftsmen who appeared after the Southern Song Dynasty, the most basic team of Chinese folk paper-cutting handicrafts is still those rural women. Women's hong is an important symbol of traditional Chinese women's perfection, and paper-cutting, as a compulsory skill of women's hong, has become a craft that girls have to learn from childhood. They have to learn the pattern of paper-cutting from their seniors or sisters, and through cutting, re-cutting, drawing and cutting, depicting their own familiar and love of natural scenery, fish, insects, birds and animals, flowers, trees, pavilions, bridges and landscapes, and finally to reach the realm of the heart, hand-cutting a new pattern to.

Window is the most widely distributed, the largest number of Han folk paper cutting, the most popular varieties. Divided into "North and South style", the South to "exquisite" for the beauty, characterized by exquisite; North to the simple and vivid for the beauty, characterized by naive and thick. Other paper-cutting varieties are based on the development and extension of the window flower. North and south of the rural areas in the Spring Festival period to stick window, so as to achieve the purpose of decorating the environment, rendering the atmosphere, and to send the old to welcome the new, to receive the blessing of auspicious wishes. Window flowers regardless of the subject matter, expression, cutting and engraving techniques are the most representative of the art of cutting and engraving. Nearly, modern window part-time has gradually formed an independent art category, but because they were originally from the Han Chinese folk festivities or folk activities in the clip art, and more than pasted on the white paper in the rural window and is called "window flower". For everyone, window flower is a wonderful title that can cause a lot of lingering and emotions. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the Spring Festival, this day, window decorations become an important part of the Chinese Spring Festival celebrations.

Legend has it that Xu, Huangdi and Houyi fought with a golden crow, then, a scream shook up, followed by a few harsh and strange howls. See the golden crow sharply rotating body shape, upward flying, it was Hou Yi with a golden bow shot split the ground sword, so that the golden crow on the back of the wing has been cut off diagonally in half, the gold blood such as spinning rain from the wounds splash, fall place instantly become a sea of molten fire. Zhuan Xu took a look and shouted 'where are the sins going to go' and rushed into the air to chase after them. Which is expected that the Golden Crow is extremely fierce and stubborn, suddenly turned his head to the right also close to the emperor of the approaching rules and spit out the cone of the open sky, the emperor was caught off guard and did not have time to dodge and swing to block, a golden light has been flashed by the left shoulder; only to hear the emperor ah ah a pain, rolled over and fell down under the clouds. The Golden Crow then pounced straight at Zhuan Xu. Zhuan Xu also did not expect that it was not concerned about the life of the fight, busy swinging the hands of the sword; but the evil is poor and crazy, despite the sword waved in front of the straight Zhuanshuanshu pounced; the lower feet a Zhuan Xu's feet firmly clamped down on the upper side of the right foot will be Zhuan Xu's left arm clamped down on the left foot of his right shoulder is also firmly clamped down on the; and then will be backward wildly end of the tilt flinging, big open mouth, spit blazing molten, fiercely to the Zhuan Xu's head whip swallowed down.

Why does this golden crow have such a skill that it can compete with the combined might of Zhuan Xu, the Emperor and Hou Yi. The original ancient times, the creation of the great god Pangu completed the greatness of the heavens and earth, lying into the heavens and the earth, used to open the cone and split the earth axe each into an orb, taking turns around the world. Open heaven cone into a yang pole gold ball, people call him the sun; split the ground axe into a yin pole silver ball, people call him the moon. After three emperors and five emperors, the sun in the ten thousand years of time, continue to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, embedded in their own soul, is this golden crow. It has three wings and four feet, one wing on the back for the protection of the body of the golden wings, can protect it from all things in heaven and earth; also can spit blazing molten, swallowing all things; especially powerful, is that in the heart of the bone of the open cone of the sky, can be indestructible.

Beginning of the Golden Crow still according to the initial trajectory of the operation, the warmth of the world. But with the increase of mana, gradually do not take everything in the eye, and later even disturbed the law of benevolence of heaven and earth, gave birth to nine suns, for the harm of the world. The mountains and rivers were dried up, and the people died in the disaster. The Jade Emperor learned of the ten suns after the scourge of heaven, sent Houyi shot to remove the nine suns, and let the Golden Crow to return to the right path. Which only he relied on the high magic power to ask the court of heaven, to the Jade Emperor to compensate for its nine sons and kill Hou Yi. So there was this battle between good and evil. Since the Golden Crow had golden wings to protect its body, the gods fought with it for more than 3,000 days, but they could not do anything to stop it. Fortunately, Nuwa transformed the moon god into an extremely yin split-earth sword and gave it to Zhuan Xu to break the pure yin power of the golden crow's pure yang wings, which cut the golden crow's protective golden wings.

When it was too late, just as the Golden Crow was about to swallow Zhuan Xu's head, a golden light shot straight into the back of the Golden Crow. The Golden Crow let out a strange howl to the heavens, and its four feet clamped down even tighter due to the immense pain. At this point Zhuan Xu endured the pain and seized the opportunity to swing his sword downward with his right arm and cut off the lower left foot of the Golden Crow. The Golden Crow had just been cut off the body protection gold wings, injured and crazy, and at this point was injured by the broken foot, although the madness of the devil, but after all, the god power to decline, the force is not able to do, threw out Zhuan Xu, and then howled strangely, and tumbled down to the ground. The emperor saw this, anxious to endure the pain picked up the fallen rule, right hand raised the moment, facing the golden crow, left hand holding the rule in the moment, to the center of the rule aimed at the golden crow, the mouth recited the words; only to see the center of the rule dispersed a circle of white halo, rapidly expanding the aperture dispersed over the moment, by the moment side of the circle of light also dispersed a circle of the square halo, composed of a 'circle of the sky and the earth' of the boundaries to the golden crow cover, it will be sealed off. Golden Crow cover to go, it will be sealed inside. At this time Hou Yi who had just shot an arrow into the back of the Golden Crow, hurriedly picked up the ground splitting sword that Zhuan Xu had dropped and shot with his bow, penetrating right through the heart of the Golden Crow. This vicious and cruel evil, crazy struggle for a while, suddenly mouth spit out a few groups to the four sides of the rapid fall of the molten, before finally subdued.

The battle of a thousand suns has finally ended. But the sky and the earth were plunged into a cold darkness. It turned out that the Golden Crow was subdued and the moon was transformed into an earth-splitting sword, leaving the sky without the illumination of the sun and moon. So Nuwa transformed the sword back into the moon, and took out the heart of the Golden Crow and transformed it into the new warm and pure sun, and only then did the heaven and earth regain their brightness. The gods originally wanted to cut off the golden crow, and to solve the future problems, but this golden crow was originally a god of Pangu, and absorbed the essence of heaven and earth for ten thousand years, and has become an indestructible soul, and can only be sealed. Because it is the cone of the open sky is embedded, can not find the magic object that can be sealed forever. While the gods were thinking about it, the foot of the crow that was cut off suddenly attacked Nuwa, although it was chopped up by the gods, but the evil barrier took advantage of the time when the gods were in a slight chaos to fight for the last bit of energy to break the seal, and transformed itself into Houyi's body, wanting Houyi to be born with him and to take revenge on Houyi, and dumped a drop of its blood into the newborn sun, and so the new sun had a three-legged shadow of the Golden Crow. Although the new sun was able to run according to the original track, it was no longer the same sun that was always warm, because of the influence of the drop of evil blood, not only the temperature of the day is constantly changing, but also the overall temperature of the time of the year is not the same, so there are changes in the morning and evening and seasons of heaven and earth. Although the new sun is not eternally warm, but this adds to the fun of heaven and earth, so that people are more energetic, which is also considered to be the gold crow not harmful to the ingenuity of the do it.

The sky and the earth finally returned to normal, in order to commemorate and let future generations cherish this hard-won light, people call the day the sun rises again New Year's Day, and expect that every day there will be a new and better change in the days to come; people also cut out paper to record the battle, and pasted it on the window to commemorate the occasion. Because of its shape looks like a flower, it is called window flower, so left the custom of New Year's Day stick window flower.

Window cuttings in the form of: one is a single-color cuttings, mostly used for large red paper cuttings, the application of a wider area. The second is a set of color paper cutting, a force used in the palace, stores, large windows or halls and facades of the windows. Third, relief paper-cutting, popular in Gansu, Qinghai area, it will be carved and paper folding process into one, unique style. Fourth, colorful window, colorful window and dyed and lined with color. Dyeing of window treatments is most famous in Fengning and Weixian County, Hebei Province. First carved after dyeing; which is most famous for the production of Foshan, with gold foil paper and tin foil paper cut out the main pattern, backed by various colors of paper, brilliant, rich and elegant. This practice is called "copper lining".

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