What festival folk custom is cutting window grilles?

Cutting window grilles is one of the folk customs of the Spring Festival.

Folk paper-cutting is a typical traditional folk art in China, with the longest history and the most popular features. It is the art of producers, that is, the art of working people. It is attached to folk customs and accompanied by festivals. It has a strong sense of jubilation and auspiciousness, often expressed by homophonic and symbolic means, and all its thoughts are within the scope of attraction.

Tool application

"Sawtooth" is naturally produced by the author due to the cutting movement of paper and knife in the production process. It uses the ratio of length, density, straightness, rigidity and softness of sawtooth, and combines the characteristics of different objects to express its texture, sense of quantity and structure.

When carving plants, soft sawtooth patterns can show their flowers and fruits, while hard sawtooth patterns can show the needling and plush of leaves and stems of trees. When carving animals, fine sawtooth patterns can show soft fluff, thick sawtooth patterns can show hard mane, and circular and semi-arc sawtooth patterns can show feathers and scales of birds, fish and insects.