What is the traditional cultural significance of window grilles?

The traditional cultural significance of cutting window grilles is to decorate the environment, render the atmosphere, and place the desire to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.

Window grilles are the most widely distributed, the largest number and the most popular among Han folk paper-cuts. Divided into North and South styles, the South takes "exquisiteness" as its beauty and is characterized by exquisiteness; The beauty of simplicity and vividness in the north is characterized by innocence and integrity.

Other paper-cut varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window grilles. During the Spring Festival, people spend time in stick grilles to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, and hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Style characteristics of window grilles

Window grilles are all suitable for patterns, and most of the window grilles in Shandong are straight, which is suitable for straight windows in this area; Northwest window grilles divide the complete paper-cut into four pieces with the word "ten", which is also suitable for forming a cross in the center of the window. The window grilles in Hunan have a fixed combination. Generally, double happiness flowers are inserted in the middle, butterfly horns are inserted in the four corners, and a pair of wedding candles, flower baskets and plates are placed on both sides of the group flowers.

In order not to affect indoor lighting, window grilles are mostly cut in the sun to get more hollowed-out area. The outer contours of window grilles and window frames are required to be comfortable and symmetrical, which can play a practical role in cold protection and ventilation in addition to beautiful decorative factors.