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Chinese paper-cut culture is profound, so how to understand Chinese paper-cut culture?

China's traditional culture is extensive and profound. There are craft pottery, art operas, Chinese paintings and customs here, among which the most popular is folk art paper-cutting, also known as paper-cutting for window grilles or paintings. The difference lies in creative tools, such as scissors and knives. Although the tools are different, the works of art are basically the same, and people collectively call them paper-cutting.

1. Paper-cut art

Paper-cutting is an empty art, which makes people feel the visual emptiness and artistic pleasure. The carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather, etc. Paper-cut materials can be folk patterns, can be cut with scissors or knives to decorate life, and can also be used in other folk activities. Visual image and style contain a lot of cultural and historical information, and express aesthetic concepts, including public social concepts, moral values, practical experience, life ideals, concepts, education, ideology and various social values.

2. The development of paper cutting

China folk paper-cut art has its own formation and development process. In China, paper was invented in ancient times, but before that, there was no paper-cutting technology. At that time, people carved in open spaces with thin materials. This technology is made of handicrafts, but it is very popular because it is paper. It is cut from leaves with gold foil, leather and enamel, and can even be carved, ground and cut.

3. Inheritance of paper-cutting

Paper-cut culture encourages excellent national cultural traditions, creates new local cultural brands, and creates a cultural atmosphere that inherits classics, enjoys by the whole people and shares achievements. A corresponding paper-cut festival was also established to attract friends, promote tourism and promote cultural development. More notes will reveal that the first paper-cutting day in China had a unique opening ceremony. Paper-cutting is a folk performance with important historical and cultural connotations; It runs through the simplicity and richness of ancient Millennium culture and the natural beauty of primitive ecology. This festival has distinctive features, with the participation of the whole people and the concern of the whole country. There are also the China Paper-cut Art Exchange Conference and the High-level Forum on Paper-cut Art Theory. ..