What is the relationship between folk paper-cutting and local customs?

Folk paper-cutting is closely combined with local customs and habits, which contains the basic quality of national spirit and national psychology and is an organic part of national traditional culture. Every year's season, residence, costumes, birth, marriage, funeral and birthday party are all reflected in paper-cutting.

The Spring Festival is a festival that many ethnic groups attach great importance to, so it is particularly grand. When Shanxi people celebrate the Spring Festival, all the houses and courtyards should be decorated. In rural areas, although there are door paintings, couplets and door signs on the gate, we still have to cut and paste a pair of "peach stones" and "peach stones" which are in harmony with the "symbols", inheriting the ancient custom of calling "Spring Festival couplets" peach symbols.

During the Lantern Festival, colorful lanterns are hung in front of every household. Lanterns have various shapes and characteristics. Paper-cuts pasted on lanterns are colorful. Rotating in the shadow is called "lantern". Carved snuff is sideways to adapt to rotation, and the role of snuff is to beautify lamps, which requires that the cut patterns must be suitable for transparent lighting. Therefore, the lines of snuff are slender, the contrast between black and white is not obvious, and the spacing between blocks is even.

Shanxi is located in the North China Plateau, and there has always been little rainfall, especially in spring, with nine droughts in ten years. In the old society, when it didn't rain for a long time, people couldn't save themselves, so they pinned their hopes on dragons. On the second day of the second lunar month, women will cut dragons, put dragons on every door and pray for rain from the dragon king. Most of these paper-cuts are simple and exaggerated, with clear outline and few floating ornaments, showing childish games.

In spring, when everything recovers, poisonous insects begin to stir, and they will suffer if they are not careful. Traditionally, at this time of year, people have to chop "chicken pecking scorpion" and "seven-star sword chopping scorpion".

Some people even put up "Fu", engraved with the words: Grain Rain Day, Grain Rain Morning, Invite General Grain Rain. Three cups of tea and four cups of wine send scorpions thousands of miles of dust.

The paper-cutting of the Dragon Boat Festival "Eliminating Tiger and Five Poisons" is the same as the above psychological factors. It is a good wish that people can get spiritual comfort and psychological balance.