About paper cutting

Paper-cutting is one of the most popular traditional folk decorative arts in China with a long history. Because of its easy materials, low cost, obvious effect, wide adaptability, diverse styles and vivid images, it is widely popular. Because it is most suitable for rural women's leisure production, it can be used as a practical object and beautify their lives. Paper-cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed different local styles. Paper-cutting not only shows the public's aesthetic hobby, but also contains the deep social psychology of the nation. It is also one of the most distinctive folk arts in China, and its modeling features are particularly worth studying. As the embodiment of China's original philosophy, folk paper-cutting has the characteristics of comprehensiveness, beautification and auspiciousness. At the same time, folk paper-cutting conveys the connotation and essence of traditional culture with its own specific expression language. Paper-cutting is divided into monochrome paper-cutting and color paper-cutting. A work carved with a color paper-cut is called monochrome paper-cut. Monochrome woodcuts, like prints, are the most commonly used forms, and such works are very simple and generous. Color matching paper-cut is a work carved with different color paper-cuts. This form is not commonly used, but it looks vivid.

On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On June 5, 2007, Zhou Zhaoming, a disciple of Wang Laoshang in Yuxian County, Hebei Province, was recognized as the representative inheritor of this cultural heritage project by the Ministry of Culture and included in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects. On June 8, 2007, Li, the world's largest paper-cut tiger master studio in Shanghai, won the first cultural heritage day award from the Ministry of Culture.

20 10 is the year of the tiger. A single tiger paper-cut created by Mr. Zhu Weizhen, president of Zhejiang Tonglu Paper-cut Association, is 10 meter wide and 7 meters high. This work was certified on the spot and selected as the largest single tiger paper-cut in world record association, China, creating another world-class paper-cut art, adding peace and joy to the arrival of the Year of the Tiger.