Paper-cut handwritten newspaper content information

Lead: In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, which is an important part of various folk activities. The following is a handwritten newspaper about paper-cutting that I prepared for you. I hope it helps you!

Introduction to Paper-cutting (1)

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities. It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses the social identity, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, and has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining all kinds of objects and images to produce ideal and beautiful effects. No matter whether one or more image combinations are used, they are modeled by "image implication" and "meaning conformation", rather than by objective natural forms. At the same time, they are also good at using metaphor and combining conventional images to create various mascots to express their psychology. Pursuing auspicious metaphor has become one of the ultimate goals of image combination. The geographical closure and cultural limitations, as well as the intrusion of adversity such as natural disasters, aroused people's desire for a happy life. People pray for ample food and clothing, prosperity, health and longevity, and all the best. This simple wish is conveyed through paper-cutting.

The Use of Paper-cutting (2)

From the specific use, it can be roughly divided into four categories:

One is for posting, that is, directly sticking on doors, windows, walls, lanterns and ribbons for decoration. Such as window grilles, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, cigarette lattices, lantern flowers, paper-tied flowers, and door stickers;

Second, it is used for decoration, that is, for decorating gifts, dowries, sacrifices and offerings. Such as flowers, flowers, fireworks, candlestick flowers, fragrant flowers, Chongyang flag;

Thirdly, embroidery patterns are used in clothing, shoes, hats and pillows. Such as shoe flower, pillow flower, hat flower, bib flower, sleeve flower and suspender flower;

Four, printing and dyeing, that is, as a printing plate of blue printed cloth, used for clothing, quilts, curtains, bags, bibs, headscarves and so on.

Paper-cut for window decoration

Decorative paper-cuts are pasted on the windows. Generally speaking, in the north, most farmers' windows are wooden lattice windows, vertical grids, squares or geometric grids, and a layer of white "leather paper" is attached to them. On holidays, the paper for window grilles is replaced and new window grilles are affixed, indicating that the old ones have been dismantled and the new ones are welcome. The forms of window grilles are various freely adaptable patterns such as corner flowers, folding flowers, animals, flowers and figures at the four corners of the decorative pane, as well as continuous sets of opera or legendary story window grilles. In short, panes of different shapes are arranged in different ways. There is a special arrangement, that is, window grilles between panes, which Shandong folks call "crossing the window".

Xihua

Wedding and festive fashion point all kinds of utensils and supplies and paper-cut indoor furnishings. Paper-cutting is generally placed on daily necessities such as tea sets, soap boxes and pots. Some are posted on the toilet mirror. Most of the themes of love flower patterns emphasize the meaning of auspiciousness and happiness. The color is bright red, and the appearance styles are round, square, diamond, peach and pomegranate. Decorated with various auspicious patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, mandarin ducks, magpies, flowers and peonies. There is a method of "flowers in flowers" in composition and layout.

Fireworks, fireworks

Paper-cuts are pasted on cakes, noodles, eggs and other gifts. It is called "cake flower" and "fruit flower" in Chaozhou, Guangdong, and "circle potted flower" in Pingyang, Zhejiang. The theme of fireworks mostly adopts auspicious and festive patterns. In Shandong, paper-cuts are pasted on "Happy Eggs" to celebrate the birth of children, or eggs are dyed red to reveal white patterns. In rural areas of Fujian, tortoise patterns are given to each other as a symbol of longevity. There are turtle-shaped cakes and turtle-shaped paper cuts.

Xie Hua

Paper-cut is used as the embroidery pattern of cloth shoe uppers. There are generally three forms: one is cut into small flowers or embroidered on the toes, which is called "toe flower"; The other is to cut them into crescent shapes according to the shape of the uppers, which is called "vamp flowers"; And the third kind extends from both ends of toe flower to vamp, which is called "vamp flower". There is also a kind called "sole flower", which was used for "longevity shoes" in the old days. Or embroidered on the bottom of cloth socks. The layout of shoe flowers is generally sparse, and the themes are flowers and birds. Some shoe flowers are partially cut without hollowing out, which is called "dark knife", which is the basis for changing the needle color in embroidery.

Door tip

Also known as "hanging money", "hanging money", "red money", "happy money", "door color" and "fasting butterfly". Generally used on the lintel or the second beam in the hall. Its style is mostly pennant-shaped, with a big head and a wide side and a tassel under it. Most of them are carved with red paper, but there are also other colors or colors. Most of the patterns are geometric patterns or embedded with figures, flowers, dragons and phoenixes and auspicious characters, such as "Celebrating the world", "Enriching the country and strengthening the people", "Good weather", "Happy ever after", "Magpie visiting Mei", "Fushou, Fushou, Fucai" and "Prosperity of Five Industries". When posting, whether it is a word or a paragraph, it is hung in sets. Usually put up five. Sticking the doormat not only has the unexpected effect of printing spring and getting rid of the old, but also has the significance of praying for good luck and exorcism.

Bean fragrant flower

A color-coded paper-cut is mostly used for decoration in Han folk activities, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods. The themes of paper-cutting are mostly operas, historical stories, folklore, flowers, people and other auspicious patterns. Color matching is generally composed of gold, red, pink, green, blue, orange, light yellow, black and other wax paper, with rich colors and strong effects. Paper-cutting needs seven layers of wax paper and one layer of wrinkled gold paper to carve flowers according to a unified pattern. After carving, according to the inspiration of the paper-cut artist, different parts of each carved flower are pieced together and then pasted on a piece of white paper again. Finally, the white paper is carved into the same pattern. So a set of fragrant flowers can make 8 paper-cuts with the same pattern and different colors.

Paper-cut banner

Paper-cutting is used to cut flags in folk activities. For example, in the folk Double Ninth Festival, colored paper is cut into banners and inserted on the Double Ninth Cake, which is very beautiful. In the Song Dynasty, there was an ancient custom in Zhejiang. If there were patients, witches held paper-cut dragon and tiger flags to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. In the funeral, the "flower banners" used for the funeral are also cut out of ordinary paper. The paper-cut flower banner is related to the banner held by the Buddha who leads the way in Buddhism; In addition, there are paper-cut "evocation paper strips" and "sparse" hanging on the beam of the Hall of Prayer in fast food (similar in shape to banners) to commemorate the anniversary of the deceased.

Information of Ancient Paper-cutting (3)

1, paper-cut in Tang Dynasty

Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem Peng ADB, there is a saying that "warm soup is enough for me and paper is enough for my soul", and the custom of evoking souls by paper-cutting has been circulated among the people at that time. The paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty, which is now in the British Museum, shows that the paper-cut at that time had a high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, expressing an ideal realm between heaven and earth. Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the carved patterns of flowers and trees have the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the pattern of "Duiyang" in Masakura Hospital in Japan is a typical artistic expression of hand cutting. In the Tang dynasty, there was also block printing made of paper-cutting. People carved it into wax paper with thick paper, and then printed the dye on the cloth to form beautiful patterns. In addition, paper-cuts from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, such as Twin Deer Pagoda, Pagoda and Deer Pagoda, were unearthed in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. , which belongs to the category of "merit paper", is mainly used to worship Buddha statues and decorate temples and Dojo. Its picture composition is complex and its content is specific, and there are ink paintings such as "Bodhisattva" and "Embracing Bodhisattva", which are works of paper-cutting and painting.

2. Paper-cutting in Song Dynasty

Paper-cut decals of Jizhou Kiln in Song Dynasty During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already artists who took paper-cutting as their profession. According to Song people's careful "Old Wulin Stories", there were hundreds of "small economies" in Hangzhou at this time. Among them, there are those who specialize in "cutting patterns", those who are good at cutting "words of various families" and those who specialize in cutting "various colors".

In Song Dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting. For example, it can be used as "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window grilles" pasted on windows, or as decorations for lanterns and teacups. The application scope of folk paper-cutting in Song Dynasty gradually expanded. Jiangxi Jizhou Kiln uses paper-cut as the pattern of ceramics, and makes the ceramics more exquisite by glazing and firing. Folk also use paper-cutting to carve figures in shadow play with the skins of animals such as donkeys, cows, horses and sheep. Engraving plates made of blue printed cloth are carved into patterns with oilpaper board, and the scratched patterns are made by paper-cutting technology, which is divided into yin and yang engraving. Long lines should be cut off to distinguish facts from truth.

3. Paper-cutting in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Paper-cut duck playing lotus in Qing dynasty

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. Folk paper-cut handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns, all of which are reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration. More people in China often use paper-cutting as decorations to decorate their homes and beautify their home environment. For example, door battlements, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms.

Although the art of paper-cutting came from the people, it became a national art in the Qing Dynasty, and even the royal family and the country at that time could not do without paper-cutting. The Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing is the wedding bridal chamber of the Qing emperor. According to Manchu custom, the window paper of the front and rear windows of the palace is pasted outside. Wallpaper is pasted on the wall, the four corners are black "Xi" paper-cut corner flowers, and the center of the ceiling is black dragon and phoenix paper-cut. Paper-cuts are also posted on the walls of the aisles on both sides of the palace. Judging from the pattern, material and color of paper-cutting, compared with the ceiling flowers and wall flowers of ordinary farmers, there is basically no difference except that the pattern of paper-cutting is slightly larger.

Methods and Skills of Paper-cutting (4)

1, folding

It is the most basic paper-cutting technique to produce repeated patterns after origami, and it is also a kind of expression technique adopted by monochrome paper-cutting. The different effects it produces depend on the number and angle of folding. When cutting flowers by this process, the paper can be folded for two or three times and then cut, and the pattern obtained is uniform on four or six sides. If you cut animals or people, the shape after folding once is symmetrical. Folding paper-cut is a symmetrical pattern, so the resulting graphics are more rhythmic. This technique is mostly used to cut happy flowers and ceiling flowers.

2. Yin and Yang sculpture

The basic effect of paper-cutting is achieved by using yin-yang lines alone or in combination.

Engraving, also known as carving, is a method of carving out the outline representing the structure of an object and expressing lines on a large block. This effect is thick and strong, with a strong sense of weight and a strong sense of contrast between black and white. The cut blank forms a pattern and the lines are not connected.

Male carving is also called carving, which is just the opposite of female carving, that is, carving blank parts and retaining contour lines. The lines of the pattern are solid and the lines are connected. This method is smooth, clear and delicate.

The combination of yin and yang is the best paper-cutting performance. There are two engraving methods for the same work, yin and yang, which make the composition varied, and the black, white and gray in the picture form a sharp contrast. It is an expressive paper-cutting technique.

3. Puncture hole

Cut out the basic outline on the paper with a knife or scissors, and then punch holes in the pattern with a needle, mainly to connect multiple layers of paper, and at the same time see the fine in the rough. This technique is often used in embroidery patterns, and sometimes the patterns are symmetrical, such as pillow flowers, shoe flowers and sleeve flowers. 2 ~ 4 identical patterns are needed, so rice paper is often used for cutting, carving and punching, and then peeled off after completion, and multiple identical patterns will appear at the same time. Xuan paper is used because it is sticky and thin, and embroidery under it will not affect the aesthetic feeling. Instead, it is a quick and simple stapler and staple, which also plays the role of multi-layer paper connection.

The Significance of Paper-cut Content (5)

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining all kinds of objects and images to produce ideal and beautiful effects. No matter whether one or more image combinations are used, they are modeled by "image implication" and "meaning conformation", rather than by objective natural forms. At the same time, they are also good at using metaphor and combining conventional images to create various mascots to express their psychology. Pursuing auspicious metaphor has become one of the ultimate goals of image combination. The geographical closure and cultural limitations, as well as the intrusion of adversity such as natural disasters, aroused people's desire for a happy life. People pray for ample food and clothing, prosperity, health and longevity, and all the best. This simple wish is conveyed through paper-cutting.