What is Chinese folk paper cutting?

Folk paper cutting is one of the most popular traditional folk decorative arts in China, with a long history. About because of its easy access to materials, low cost, the effect of immediate, wide range of adaptability and generally popular; more because it is most suitable for rural women's leisure production, can be used as a practical object, but also to beautify the life. Paper-cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed different local styles and schools. Paper-cutting not only expresses the aesthetic preferences of the masses, but also contains the deep-rooted psychology of the national society, and is one of the most characteristic folk arts in China, whose modeling characteristics are especially worth studying. As the embodiment of Chinese origin philosophy, folk paper-cutting has comprehensive, beautifying and auspicious characteristics in its expression, and at the same time, folk paper-cutting conveys the connotation and essence of traditional culture with its own specific expression language.