Which era did paper-cutting first originate?

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty BC, and the art of paper-cutting could not certainly not appear before it, but at that time, people used thin sheets of material, through the hollowing and carving techniques made into handicrafts, but as early as before the emergence of paper has been popular. According to records, from the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, there are people in the leaves for carving patterns carved, the "Historical Records" in the shear Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng used the sycamore leaves cut into? The king used the leaves of the sycamore tree to cut the leaves into gui. Giving his brother, Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. Later, people use gold and silver foil, leather and other carriers for carving, carving, skeletonization and other artistic creations, their emergence has laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.

Currently found in China's earliest paper-cutting works is the period of the Northern Dynasties five group flower paper-cutting. The Tang Dynasty was a period of great development of paper-cutting. Professional paper-cutting artists have appeared in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, paper-cutting craftsmanship had reached its peak, and window flowers and happy flowers were used to decorate homes.

After the founding of New China, the ? Hundreds of flowers bloom, push out the new? Under the guidance of the policy, the traditional art of paper-cutting also glows with a new luster, showing people a new life, a new atmosphere of paper-cutting endless. The art of paper-cutting in China has a long history and is constantly developing.

China's part-time representative figures are:

One, Ku Shulan

Ku Shulan's early works (1980-1989) simple, bright and colorful, depicting a picture of life, cows, sheep, pigs and dogs, flowers, trees, houses and farm equipment, none of which are alive, dynamic and natural. Each of her paintings is accompanied by a song that is either cheerful and hearty, bitter and sarcastic, or funny and witty. Some of these songs glorify the good and evil in life; some express the philosophy of life; and some describe cultural insights.

Two, Gao Fenglian

Gao Fenglian's paper-cutting art style rough and simple, flowing momentum, majestic, inherited from the primitive society Yangshao culture new ceramic primitive rock paintings to the social development of Shaanxi Province and the Han and Tang rock carvings of the flourishing upward art of the rising period of the unique spirit of the national spirit, there is no late Qing Dynasty social decline of the kind of delicate and cumbersome and lifeless, only the craft without the spirit of the The kind of? Poodle? Artistic influence. Her artistic temperament is the Yellow River Basin, Loess Plateau, Shaanxi people's healthy and simple feelings of cohesion and crystallization.

Third, Qi Xiumei

Qi Xiumei not only inherited the creation of their ancestors, but also from the life of the nutrients, boldly innovate their own personal style of paper-cutting works, from her work reveals a strong folk culture, ancient totem worship, as well as traditional philosophical concepts of folk and modeling system. She is a master of the style of folk art on behalf of the Loess Plateau, and was selected by UNESCO as a Chinese Master of Folk Arts and Crafts. Chinese Master of Folk Arts and Crafts.