Practice of paper-cut kite

The practice of paper-cut kites is as follows:

Material preparation: colored paper, pencil and scissors.

1. Take a piece of colored paper and fold it in half along the center line. First, draw the overall outline of the kite, a big bird flying high.

2. Next, decorate the big bird's head with paper-cut patterns, and use a combination of sawtooth patterns, crescent patterns and circles.

3. There are many geometric patterns used to decorate wings, some irregular geometric patterns are harmoniously matched together, and the unclosed curves on wings are used to cut sawtooth patterns.

4. Finally, the tail is decorated with water drop patterns and comma patterns. At this point, all the papers have been completed.

5. Next, start paper-cutting and carefully cut along the drawn pattern. There are many places that need to be deleted. Hold the scissors tightly. When cutting, the paper rotates with the scissors, so be careful.

6. Unfolding the cut colored paper, a big bird spread its wings and flew in front of you.

Paper cutting:

Paper-cutting, commonly known as window grilles, is a hollow art, and its carrier can be sheet materials such as paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth and leather. Paper-cut works are mainly stories, people, animals, flowers and birds, landscapes and so on. The pattern is exquisite and luxurious, clever and interesting. Among them, color matching paper-cut is welcomed by the majority of paper-cut lovers and the masses for its reasonable color matching and novel layout.

Folk paper-cutting is mainly used for festive activities, such as weddings and Spring Festival, and it is pasted on windows and furniture to set off the atmosphere and place people's longing for a better life and hope for good luck and happiness.

In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Zonggu, the prefect of Yidu County in the Jin Dynasty, wrote in Jingchu Chronicle: "On the day of beginning of spring, I learned that the ribbon was cut by Yan and labeled with the word Yichun."

At that time, a custom of "carving gold and cutting the ribbon" was popular in Jingchu area of southern China during the Spring Festival. Every year, on the seventh day of the first month, every household will cut some thin materials into human figures, and the exquisite ones will be used as screen stickers in the form of carved gold foil, or made into headdresses to wear on their heads, or cut silk into flower-shaped decorations for others.