The story of cutting spring flowers Urgent!

1. The story of cutting window blossoms

During the Spring Festival, cutting window blossoms is the women's specialty, and it is also one of the folk crafts that they compete in the dexterity contest. According to the ancient Chinese tradition, cutting window flowers is generally not happy beforehand to draw manuscripts, hand sample. Because the window was originally a paper-cutting in the small, improvised things, so cut the time of arbitrariness is very strong, usually in order to coax the child.

It is said that the origins of window flowers in the ice flower, originated in the Chinese garden environment perspective - window view. In ancient times, called "cut color". Therefore, cutting window flowers and the size and shape of the window, or a close relationship. Moreover, the kangtou window of a Chinese farmhouse is often a place for children to play, so the content of the window flower is also some flowers, animals, fruits, and some stories of sages and ancient myths, etc. For example, a bouquet of wax flowers is cut. For example, cut a bunch of plums, cut a few pomegranates, cut two butterflies, cut a group of mice moving, and then cut on the Kongrong let pear, Chang'e moon and so on.

Cut window flowers pay attention to the size of the pattern and pairs, can not cut a single one. For example, you can two red paper folded together, cut out two chrysanthemums or two butterflies at once, sub-pasted on the window. You can also get a larger piece of paper, fold it in half, and cut some ancient stories with complicated patterns, such as Magoo's birthday dedication, the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, and so on. If you do not want to cut these, you can also cut some animals, flowers and auspicious cloud combination, if there is "empty space", you can cut a few Chinese characters, such as joy in the door, fortune, blowing cock to attract phoenix and so on. However, this kind of "large single sheet" mentioned above must also be cut into two corresponding patterns within a picture. Of course, when you correspond, you can also cut the two pictures intentionally different, but the whole frame should be symmetrical.

Said to cut the window, in fact, but also to use a carving knife, in some of the pattern of fine places for "carving". Chinese window treatments are divided into north and south, that is, "south carving north cut". That is to say, the south of the window because more slender, so pay attention to the "carving", and the north of the window is more rough, so pay attention to the "shear".

The more sophisticated people, in addition to cutting the window, but also to add cut "door paper", wall flowers, lantern flowers and mirror flowers and so on. All of these patterns, should be the same style, color sets. It is worth mentioning that, when cutting and pasting window flowers, can not cut the word and the pattern of the reverse, when pasted should also be facing out.

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Window decals are one of the traditional Chinese New Year customs. Many people in both urban and rural areas can't avoid putting up window decals on New Year's Day. There is a nursery rhyme:

"New Year's Day, sticking flowers, full of windows, all red. Decal a cat, decal a dog, decal a child to play dibble, decal an old monkey to smoke a pipe." "The rooster makes a mess of the cabbage, the grandma and grandpa are worried. A bat falls on the window, the five blessings come to the door. The lotus flower covers the goldfish, celebrating the yearly surplus. Cicadas play the shengsheng, children will become adults early. The Eight Immortals cross the sea in four seasons, the grapes and the seven stars are bright. Lotus and crane, two immortals, deer and crane, magpies and plums. Turtle's longevity takes away the red peach, longevity orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums protect the flower god. Four seasons like the peony root, Buddha's hand lotus flower Guitang born."

Reproduces the joyful atmosphere of New Year's Eve window decals, window decorations, novel content, sent people auspicious wishes

Paper-cutting is a very popular art in Chinese folklore, loved for thousands of years, and the Spring Festival has a close relationship with this festival, the Tang poet Li Shangyin wrote in a poem: "Skeletonization of gold as a victory in the Jing customs, cut green for people up Jin winds! ". The "Jing custom" and "Jin wind" in the poem illustrate this trend. Because most of the paper-cutting is pasted on the window, so it is generally called "window flower". After the Song and Yuan, cut and paste window flowers to welcome the spring time will be changed from spring to the Spring Festival, people use paper cuttings to express themselves to celebrate the joy of spring on earth.

Window flowers are rich in content, a wide range of subjects. Because it is a Chinese folk art, most of the content is the expression of rural life, such as farming, weaving, fishing, shepherding, feeding pigs, raising chickens and so on. In addition, there are myths and legends, opera stories and other subjects. In addition, birds, flowers, insects and fish and the Chinese zodiac and other images are also very common.

On the origin of window decals, there is a mythological story.

According to legend, after three emperors and five emperors, the sun in the ten thousand years of time, continue to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, embedded in their own soul - the Golden Crow. It has three wings and four feet, with one wing on its back as the protective golden wing, and can spit out blazing melts, swallowing everything and doing harm to the world.

The Jade Emperor learned that the ten days of the scourge of heaven, sent Houyi to shoot the nine days, because the golden crow has a protective golden wing, the gods and it fought for more than 3,000 days, but ultimately could not do anything about it. Fortunately, Nuwa transformed the moon god into an extremely yin cleaver sword to Zhuan Xu, with pure yin power to break the pure yang wings of the Golden Crow, which will be the Golden Crow's protective golden wings cut. The battle of a thousand days of darkness finally came to an end. But heaven and earth were plunged into a cold darkness. So Nuwa reshaped the sword back to the moon, and took out the heart of the Golden Crow and turned it into a new warm and pure sun, and only then did heaven and earth regain their light.

In order to commemorate and let future generations cherish this hard-won light, people cut paper to record this battle and stick it on the window to commemorate it, thus leaving the custom of sticking windowpane on New Year's Day.

Nowadays, with the growing mastery of paper-cutting skills, the window flowers set joy, ornamental, artistic as one. Cutting window flowers is no longer limited to folk grannies, more and more professional enthusiasts to join the team, we also through a variety of channels, platforms, and mutual exchange of skills, so that the paper cutting of this traditional folk culture gradually flourish.