Paper-cutting is a unique folk art form in China. What are its characteristics?

Paper-cutting is a unique folk art form in China. Paper-cutting is characterized by being cut or carved on paper, so it is necessary to adopt the method of hollowing out. As a result of hollowing out, paper-cuts with public lines must be connected, and paper-cuts with bus lines must be broken, otherwise the whole paper-cut will be fragmented and out of shape. The structure of connection and disconnection is an important feature of paper-cutting art.

Paper-cutting pays great attention to lines, because the picture of paper-cutting is composed of lines. According to practical experience, the lines of paper-cutting can be summarized into five words: "round, sharp, square, missing and line". Requirements: "Round as autumn moon, sharp as wheat awn, square as blue brick, lacking as sawtooth, walking like beard." It can be said that lines are the basis of paper-cut modeling.

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Among them, Yangzhou is one of the earliest areas in China to popularize paper-cutting. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou had the custom of paper-cutting to welcome the Spring. On this day in beginning of spring, folk paper-cuts include flowers, spring butterflies and spring money. , or hung on the top of a beautiful woman, or decorated under flowers and trees for fun. According to legend, during Jiaqing and Daoguang years, the paper-cut by the famous artist Bao Jun was called "God scissors" because flowers, birds, fish and butterflies all had the same form. After the founding of New China, Yangzhou paper-cutting has been attached great importance by the state and local governments.

1955, Yangzhou established a folk arts and crafts society. 65438-0979 Zhang Yongshou, a paper-cut artist, was awarded the title of "Master of Arts and Crafts in China" by the state, with three sets of paper-cuts in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s as his representative works. Yangzhou paper-cut has a wide range of themes, including figures, flowers and birds, animals, insects and fish, strange mountains and strange scenery, places of interest and so on. , especially the flowers of the four seasons.