What is the significance and symbol of cutting window grilles?

Window grilles are famous for their long history and profound cultural color. It conveys various auspicious meanings through metaphor, symbol and metonymy. Moral symbols are as follows:

1, skillfully borrowing the natural attributes of animals and plants, homophonic Chinese characters, giving various auspicious meanings through metaphor, symbol, metonymy and other ways.

For example, with the help of the natural properties of animals and plants, there are melons, gourds and pomegranates, all of which are multi-seeded. Fish frogs are good at breeding, which is a metaphor for praying for future generations to prosper; Yuanyang lives together for life, which means that men and women are United and grow old together; Swallows and butterflies fly on both sides, meaning a happy love and a happy marriage; Longevity of tortoise and crane means health and longevity, immortality and so on.

2. Symbolic significance of animals and plants Peony symbolizes wealth, longan symbolizes reunion, and kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness. Peacock Phoenix is a rare bird, symbolizing good luck. Magpies can report good news when they know it, symbolizing a happy event to welcome the door; Tiger is the king of beasts, mighty and brave, symbolizing prosperity; Liger is still the main pattern of baby clothes. In order to get rid of diseases and avoid disasters, we should choose liger.

3. The combination of jujube, peanut, longan and lotus seed in Chinese characters means early birth, the combination of lotus carp is annual, the combination of peach and five bats is Five Blessingg's birthday celebration, the combination of three sheep is the combination of three sheep, quail lives on deciduous leaves, which means living and working in peace and contentment, and magpies and plum blossoms are beaming.

Brief introduction of window grilles

Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass, which is one of the traditional folk arts of Han nationality in ancient China. It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad.

Window grillage is a characteristic art of farming culture, and the rural living geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art have distinctive Han folk customs and artistic characteristics.

In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. Now in the south, it is only posted when you get married, and it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. Stick grilles is still very popular in the north. In Fengning, Hebei Province, if there is no stick grilles during the Spring Festival, people will guess whether something happened to this family. One of the paper-cut varieties. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, the vast rural areas put paper-cuts on the windows before the Spring Festival.

Generally speaking, the style of window grilles is relatively free, except for the "corner flower" stuck in the four corners and the "group flower" folded and cut, there is no restriction on its outer contour. The theme of window grilles is very wide, and there are a lot of drama stories. Window grilles are more common in the north.