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Brief introduction of Zigong paper-cutting

Zigong paper-cutting is an ancient traditional art of Han nationality in Zigong, Sichuan. Paper-cutting, also known as paper-cutting or painting scissors, began in the early 1940s and has a history of more than 3,000 years in China. His works are simple, Gu Zhuo and lively. Through the combination of dynamic and static, the combination of yin and yang, the combination of block lines and density, and the forms of single painting, group painting, monochrome and color, all kinds of folk arts are integrated into paper-cut works, forming a unique artistic style of simple, rich, fresh, clumsy and ingenious, plain and strange, rich in pattern flavor and elegant. Zigong's paper-cut is simple and simple in Gu Zhuo, with vivid interest, which is not only widely praised in Sichuan, but also has a certain influence abroad. Comrade Guo Moruo personally wrote the inscription "China Zigong Paper-cut" for Zigong Paper-cut, which shows that it enjoys a certain reputation.