What are the common paper-cutting patterns?

There are three main categories of common paper-cutting motifs: character stories, birds and animals, and auspicious motifs. The theme of the character story of the unicorn to send children, lotus flowers, five sons, and the two immortals, etc., folklore in the White Snake, Tianxian match, mythological stories of the Eight Immortals across the sea, Ma Gu Xianshou, theater characters in the two plums, the Luoyang Bridge, and so on. This kind of theme has both edification significance, but also has an independent aesthetic status.

The number of embroidery patterns of flowers, birds and animals is the largest, the application is also the most widely used, this kind of paper-cutting in the sky flying, running on the ground, the river swims in the exotic beasts and animals have everything, and then with a variety of seasonal flowers, to more beautiful, vivid, vivid, auspicious image for the people to choose, such as the "more than three" in the pomegranate, a symbol of more children, a symbol of more life! Like the "three more" in the symbol of pomegranate, a symbol of longevity of the peach, a symbol of happiness of the Buddha's hand and the metaphor of love love lovebirds, a metaphor for longevity of ribbons, etc., are chosen more, and none of them are not linked with the auspicious.

Auspicious patterns using symbols, harmonies and other techniques to give life in the object with a specific meaning, to show a specific theme, reflecting the people's hopes of praying for good luck and evil spirits, good luck and prosperity of the ideals and aspirations. For example, in any occasion can appear in the eight auspicious, with the harmonization of the bee and monkey **** placed in a figure called "hanging seal", with the symbolic meaning of the peony and chrysanthemum side by side that is presented as "wealth and prosperity", to meet the spiritual needs of people.