Paper-cutting in English

The English word for paper-cutting is paper-cut.

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, is intertwined with the social life of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities.

The visual images and modeling formats inherited from the past contain rich cultural and historical information, express the social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life and aesthetic interests of the general public, and have multiple social values, such as cognition, edification, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

On May 20, 2006, paper-cutting was approved by the State Council to be included in the first national list of intangible cultural heritage, and at the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the paper-cutting project declared by China was selected to be on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity"

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty, B.C., and the art of paper-cutting could not have appeared before that, but the use of thin sheets of material to make handicrafts through the technique of hollowing out and carving has been popular since the time when paper did not exist.

That is, with the carving, skeletonizing, ticking, carving, cutting techniques in the gold foil, leather, silk, and even in the leaves on the cutting pattern. In the Historical Records of the Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of the Zhou Dynasty used sycamore leaves to cut into a "kuai" to give his brother, and sealed Ji Yu as a marquis in Tang.