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Paper cutting how to do simple and beautiful

How to make paper cutting simple and beautiful is as follows:

1, prepare the tools and raw materials, a square of red paper and scissors. Red paper folded diagonally, then folded and open. Fold the left corner to the right.

2. Fold the red paper in half again.

3. Fold the right corner to the left.

4. Cut out a right triangle.

5, just start cutting according to the pattern designed in advance. There are two steps in the paper cutting process.

6, paper cutting is complete, good-looking paper cutting came out, is not it like it?

Paper cutting is a kind of scissors or carving knife in the paper cut pattern, used to decorate life or with other folk activities of folk art. Its inherited visual images and modeling formats contain rich cultural and historical information and express the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public.

Paper-cutting art heritage has been selected as China's national intangible cultural heritage list and the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind. Although the art of paper-cutting came from the folk, it had become a universal art by the Qing Dynasty, and even the imperial relatives at that time could not live without paper-cutting.

The Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing was the flower candle cave for the Qing emperors when they got married. In accordance with the customs of the Manchu people, the palace front and rear windows of the window paper are framed outside. Walls framed with paper, the corners are pasted with black "_" word paper cut flowers, the center of the roof is a black dragon and phoenix group flower cut flowers. Palace on both sides of the aisle walls are also pasted with paper cutouts.

From the pattern of paper-cutting, material, color, and the ordinary farmhouse ceiling flowers, wall flowers, in addition to paper-cutting pattern is slightly larger, there is basically no difference.