Quadrangle folding paper cutting pattern and drawing method

Quadrangle Fold Paper Cutting Patterns and Drawing Methods are as follows:

Tools/Materials:

A square piece of colored paper, scissors, pen.

Methods/steps:

1, first prepare a square piece of colored paper, pen, scissors.

2, first fold the diagonal of the colored paper.

3, then fold the right and left corners of the colored paper.

4. Fold the left corner up and the back corner back.

5.Draw a pattern on the folded paper.

6, next use scissors to slowly cut along the drawn lines to finish.

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 and is intertwined with the social life of people 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 heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. 2009, at the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which was held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, China declared that its paper-cutting project had been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In December 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced that Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a base for the inheritance of Chinese paper-cutting and Chinese traditional culture.