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Paper-cutting is one of the most popular traditional folk decorative arts in China with a long history. It has a long history. It is generally popular because of its easy availability of materials, low cost, immediate effect and wide range of adaptability; and also because it is the most suitable for rural women to make in their leisure time, which can be used as practical objects as well as to beautify their lives. Paper-cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed different local styles and schools. Paper-cutting not only expresses the aesthetic preferences of the masses, but also contains the deep-rooted psychology of the national society, and is one of the most characteristic folk arts in China, whose modeling characteristics are especially worth studying. As the embodiment of Chinese original philosophy, folk paper-cutting has comprehensive, beautifying and auspicious characteristics in its expression, while folk paper-cutting conveys the connotation and essence of traditional culture with its own specific expression language.

On May 20, 2006, the artistic heritage of paper-cutting was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. on June 8, 2007, Shanghai Li Shoubai paper-cutting masters' workshop was awarded the first Cultural Heritage Day Prize issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

China's folk paper-cutting handicraft art has its own formation and development process, the invention of paper in China is in the BC era of the Western Han Dynasty (6th century B.C.), before that it is not possible to have the emergence of the art of paper-cutting, but at that time, people use thin sheet of material, through the hollowing out of the carving technique made of handicrafts, but as early as the emergence of the paper when there is no popularity, that is, with the sculpture, skeletonization, ticking, engraving, cutting the technique in the gold foil, leather, silk, and even on leaves. The Historical Records of the cut Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty King Cheng with sycamore leaves cut into "Gui" given to his brother, sealed Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. Warring States period, there is leather skeletonization, (Hubei Jiang Ling Wangshan one of the Chu tomb excavated artifacts), silver foil skeletonization carving (Henan Huixian solid surrounding the village of one of the excavated artifacts of the warring states ruins), are with paper-cutting with a withdrawal, their emergence for the formation of folk paper-cutting has laid a certain foundation. China's earliest discovery of paper-cutting works, is in 1967, China's archaeologists in Xinjiang Turpan Basin, Gaochang site near the Astana Ancient North Dynasty curtain group, found in two regimental flower paper-cutting, they use the hemp paper, are folded ritual paper-cutting, their discovery of China's paper-cutting formation to provide physical evidence.

About the history of paper-cutting handicraft art, i.e., paper-cutting in the real sense, it should start from the appearance of paper. The invention of paper in the Han Dynasty prompted the emergence, development and popularization of paper-cutting. Paper is a very easy to moldy material, in the southeastern region of China's climate is humid, coupled with the local rainy days every year in May and June, a long time paper products on the moldy, and folk paper-cutting is a kind of mass, people will not be like a treasure to save up, spoiled their own can be cut again. And in the northwest of China, dry, dry climate, the paper is not easy to mold, which may also be found in Xinjiang Turpan area of the Northern Dynasties paper cuts one of the important reasons.

Tang Dynasty paper-cutting - paper flowers Tang Dynasty paper-cutting has been in a period of great development, Du Fu's poem has "warm water Maundy my feet, paper-cutting to attract my soul" sentence, to paper-cutting to attract the soul of the custom has been spreading folk. Now hidden in the British Museum of the Tang Dynasty paper cutting can be seen at that time paper cutting handmade art level has been extremely high, the picture composition is complete, expressing a kind of heaven and earth ideal realm. Tang dynasty popular jie, its openwork woodblock pattern with paper-cutting characteristics, such as now hidden in Japan's Masakura Yard of the "sheep", the pattern of the sheep is a typical paper-cutting handmade art expression. Tang dynasty folk also appeared in the form of paper cuts using the production of leakage printing plate, people with thick paper carved into a flower plate, the dye leakage printing to the cloth, forming a beautiful pattern.

Song dynasty paper industry is mature, paper products a variety of names, for the popularity of paper cutting provides the conditions. Such as becoming a folk gift "gift flowers", pasted on the window "window flowers", or used for lanterns, tea decorations. Song dynasty folk paper cutting the use of gradually expanding the scope of Jiangxi Jizhou kilns will be paper cutting as a ceramic pattern, through the glaze, firing to make ceramics more beautiful; folk also use paper cutting in the form of donkeys, cows, horses, sheep and other animal skin, carved into shadow play characters; blue printed fabric crafting skeletonization plate is made of oil on cardboard carving into patterns, scraping printing pattern is the use of paper-cutting techniques, there is a yin, Yang carved points, the long line to cut, to point divided into real and imaginary.

Ming and Qing dynasties paper-cutting handicraft art toward maturity, and reached its heyday. Folk paper-cutting handmade art of a wider range of applications, such as folk lanterns on the flower decoration, fan decoration, as well as embroidery patterns, etc., are not the use of paper-cutting as a decorative into the reprocessing. More often than not, China's folk paper cutting as decorative home ornaments, beautify the home environment, such as door stacks, window flowers, cabinet flowers, happy flowers, roof flowers are used to decorate doors and windows, room paper cutting. In addition to the emergence of paper-tie pattern craftsmen after the Southern Song Dynasty, the most basic team of Chinese folk paper-cutting handicrafts is still those rural women. Women's red is an important symbol of the perfection of China's traditional women, as the women's red must learn skills - paper cutting, has become a craft that girls have to learn from childhood. They have to learn paper-cutting patterns from their elders or sisters, and through cutting, re-cutting, drawing and cutting, depicting the natural scenery they are familiar with and love, such as fish, insects, birds and animals, flowers, plants and trees, pavilion bridges and landscapes, and finally reaching the realm of their own hearts and minds, they can cut out new patterns with their own hands.

Chinese folk paper-cutting handicraft art, like an ivy plant, ancient and evergreen, its unique popularity, practicality, aesthetic becomes a symbolism in line with the psychological needs of the people.

The art of paper-cutting has a long history and has been widely documented in ancient poetic texts:

1. Tang? Cui Daorong left a poem, there are such words: "want to cut Yichun word, spring cold people scissors" here the "Yichun post", which is now familiar with paper cutting.

2. Tang? Li Shangyin "people said" poem: "Skeleton gold as a win Jing custom, cut color for people up Jin wind". Color cutting is also known as paper cutting.

3. Tang? Duan Cheng style "Youyang Miscellany Chopper" said: "Spring Festival, the scholar's home, cut paper for the small coiled, or hanging in the head of a good man, or decorated with flowers, and cut for the spring butterflies, spring victory to play.

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