Description of Colored Paper Cutting

A type of colored paper cutting.

The terminology is "point color". One of the traditional Chinese folk crafts. The method is to cut and carve after the work, apply color rendering. Most of the Xuan paper or Lianshi paper, paper is thin and easy to blotting and dyeing to color plus white wine and blending, strong permeability, each time you can dye twenty or thirty sheets. In order to be suitable for dyeing, mainly in the shade. This kind of dyed paper-cutting is circulated in Hebei, Shanxi, Fujian and other provinces. Characterized by bright colors, with rhyme and strong national characteristics.

In fact, it is a folk art form combining carved paper and colored paintings, which originated in Weixian County, Hebei Province, and is called "Tianpi Liang" window decoration. It depicts the content of Hebei Wuqiang and Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's painting art by the influence of the famous artists later by the transformation of the tools, paper cutting process has a new development, can be carved in batches into stacks, and then 95% of the high concentration of alcohol to dissolve the various colors, according to the needs of the pattern modeling to be dotted and dyed, so that the colors do not penetrate into each other, and therefore the dyeing of the paper cuts colorful, clearly defined boundaries.

Dyed paper-cutting subject matter covers a wide range of opera characters, folk stories, legends, dolls, flowers, birds, fish and insects, birds and beasts, auspicious motifs and scenes of labor and so on. Figure 1 of the "tiger" image is very popular. Wearing a furry tiger hat, looks lively, lively and lovely. Figure two is one of the Chinese zodiac coloring paper cutting series - dog.

This paper cutting is very good knife skills, the dog's body parts, especially the head pattern treatment, people love, and the coloring is very bold, using the appropriate intensity of purple. Picture 3 shows a silly Santa Claus, and picture 4 shows our national treasure, the Peking Opera face.

The dyeing and carving techniques of dyed paper-cutting have been passed down to many places, and as a Chinese folk craft, its elegance still needs to be passed on and carried forward from generation to generation.