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Winter paper-cutting works

Lipstick Paper Cutting Works for Winter is introduced as follows:

Lipstick Paper Cutting Works for Winter can be created by choosing the following themes:

1. Snowflakes: cut out various shapes of snowflakes, which can be simple hexagonal shapes or complex three-dimensional snowflakes. You can use different colors of paper to make them to add layers.

2. winter landscape: cut out the natural landscape of winter, such as snow, trees, mountains and so on. You can use paper cutting techniques to show the texture and details of snow and ice.

3. Animal world: cut out the images of common winter animals, such as bears, deer, foxes and so on. You can show their fur and body features by paper cutting.

4. Festive atmosphere: cut out the festival elements related to winter, such as fireplace, hot pot, dumplings and so on. The shapes and details of the food can be shown through paper cutting.

5. Winter activities: cut out common winter activity scenes, such as skiing, snowball fights, snowmen and so on. The movements and expressions of the characters can be shown through paper cutting.

In the process of paper cutting, you can use scissors, carving knife and other tools to create. You can choose suitable paper-cutting methods according to your own preferences and skills, such as single-layer paper-cutting, multi-layer paper-cutting, symmetrical paper-cutting and so on. At the same time, you can try to combine different paper-cutting elements together to create richer and more diverse works.

Lidong, the nineteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, is also the beginning of winter. The handle of the dipper points to the northwest and the sun's yellow meridian reaches 225°, and it crosses the festival between November 7-8 on the Gregorian calendar every year. The first day of winter is the beginning of the year, and the last day of the year is the end of the year, when all things are collected. Winter, means that anger began to close storage, all things into the state of recuperation, collection. Its climate is also dry from the autumn rain to the rainy and cold winter climate transition.

Seasonal division of the commonly used methods are mainly "festival method" and "temperature method". Traditionally in China, winter begins with the first of the twenty-four solar terms, and the "solar method" of dividing winter means that everything enters a state of recuperation and collection.

The "Temperature Method" divides the seasons into five consecutive days in which the average daily temperature falls steadily below 10℃ as the beginning of winter; the winter divided by the Temperature Method indicates that the weather has become cold.

Lidong represents the beginning of winter, and it is one of the seasonal nodes that Chinese folk attach great importance to, with spring plowing and summer cultivation, autumn harvesting and winter storing, and winter being the season of enjoying a good harvest and recuperating. Winter is also one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient society, is a very important festival, in some parts of China, there are ancestor worship, drinking feasts and other customs.