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The traditional story of paper-cutting

Legend of paper-cutting: A long time ago, there lived a little girl without parents in Yangzhou City. No one knows her first and last name. Because she cuts flowers for a living, everyone calls her flower girl. One day, Huashantou went out to sell flowers early in the morning and ran for a day, only earning a few pence. On my way home, I saw an old woman sitting on the roadside cutting flowers for others. I saw the scissors in grandma's hand cut out a flower like a living one. It was not until grandma closed the stall that she knelt down and begged her to accept her as an apprentice. Grandma was sincere in seeing Huashan Head and took her home that night. Strange to say, when scissors are in your hand and you want to cut some flowers, the appearance of that flower appears in front of you. A piece of paper turned three times and two times in her hand and was cut into vivid flower shapes. Flowers are different, a leaf is exactly the same as the real one, and the cut flowers are really sold out at once. From then on, the door of the flower girl's house was very lively. Those who bought flowers and asked for advice just squeezed the door open. Later, Hua Shantou also brought many apprentices to pass on her good skills from generation to generation.