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China's paper-cutting technique includes the artistry of painting art, but what skills are highlighted?

As an ancient and traditional art style, China folk paper-cutting has been combined with China customs and people's wishes for thousands of years.

Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history in rural areas of China. Paper-cutting is to cut paper into various patterns with scissors or scissors, such as window decorations, door paper, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, shallow flowers and so on. Han paper-cutting is a traditional folk paper-cutting art. It has a long history, is a treasure of China folk art, and has become a treasure in the world art treasure house. Simple, vivid and interesting artistic modeling has unique artistic charm. Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the concept of two-dimensional space, knife taste, paper feeling, lines and decoration, freehand brushwork and implication.

It embodies people's love and hate, and expresses people's feelings and beauty. It exists in the deep soil where workers live. It embodies the most basic aesthetic concept, spiritual quality, artistic characteristics and life interest of human beings.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining various objects to produce ideal effects. No matter one or more images are combined, they are all? Xiang yin? And? Meaning? , rather than based on the objective natural form. At the same time, they are good at creating various mascots by using metaphor and xing, and combining the agreed images into the same custom to express their psychology. The pursuit of auspicious metaphor has become one of the ultimate goals of image combination.

The reason why folk paper-cutting can be widely spread for a long time is mainly because of the expressive function of Nafu image. Dolls, gourds and lotus flowers symbolize many children and many blessings. Poultry, livestock, fruits, fish and insects are the familiar objects and main contents of farmers. Geographical isolation and cultural limitations, as well as natural disasters and other adversities, have aroused people's desire for a happy life. People pray for adequate food and clothing, prosperity, health, longevity and all the best. This simple wish is conveyed by paper cutting.

Folk paper-cutting expresses the desire for life in various forms, protects life, praises life, shows the joy of life, and worships life has become a pious belief. Eagle stepping rabbit is one of the favorite flowers in folk bridal chamber, and it is also a widely spread traditional pattern among the people. Eagle finger? Yang? Like chickens, birds and crows. In folk mythology, the sun is called? Three-legged bird? People call the sun? Crow? . What does the rabbit mean? Yin? . The moon is called rabbit in folk. It reflects the theme of reproductive worship. There are many paper-cut works with? Kouwan? 、? Zhuji doll? 、? Yuzhulian? Waiting for the theme.

The expression language of folk paper-cutting is not a simple and clear description, but a kind of sustenance. It borrows people's habitual idealized images and entrusts people's longing for a better life and expectation for good luck and happiness. All kinds of simple and absurd paper-cut shapes contain frankness and beauty, which come from the original visual thinking mode and folk aesthetic concept, from the unique modeling system composed of formula system and image sculpture, from China's original philosophy and world outlook, and have more touching artistic charm.