Shanxi which is the most famous paper cutting

Where in Shanxi is the most famous paper-cutting: Zhongyang paper-cutting.

Zhongyang paper-cutting is a beautiful folk art with a long history. From Zhongyang paper-cutting, you can see the ancient folk customs, ancient history and cultural traditions of the Loess Plateau in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Zhongyang paper-cutting inherits the pure and crude artistic style of stone statues of Han and Wei Dynasties, which has unique aesthetic and artistic value.

Zhongyang paper-cutting is a kind of folk paper-cutting art in Zhongyang County, which is connected with local traditional folk culture. Zhongyang paper-cutting takes local folk beliefs, seasons, rituals, myths and legends as the main content of expression, among which there are decorative patterns featuring fish, frogs, snakes and rabbits, as well as folk paper-cutting to match the seasons and rituals of life, and paper-cutting works based on folk myths.

The significance of Zhongyang paper-cutting

1. The main authors of Zhongyang paper-cutting are the laboring women in rural areas of Zhongyang, and paper-cutting is an important part of their daily life, and it is the concentrated expression of their aesthetic taste and intelligence. Zhongyang paper-cutting is rich in the earthy flavor of the mountains and the rustic beauty of primitive art, and vividly records the ideals and pursuits of the working women. The inheritance relationship of their skills is generally spontaneous, but there are also family ways of inheritance.

2, Zhongyang paper-cutting is mainly distributed in Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province, in the Nanchuan River Basin, Liu Jiaping area and the remote mountainous areas of Xishan Mountain. The folk paper-cutting style of Nanchuan River Valley is delicate, simple and elegant, and occupies a mainstream position in Zhongyang paper-cutting.