Local characteristics of paper-cutting

The characteristics of paper-cutting are as follows:

1, Longdong paper-cut

It is a paper-cut spread in Pingliang and Qingyang, Gansu. Longdong paper-cutting style is rough and exaggerated, with a long history. It is an ancient traditional folk art, with many folk stories, birds and beasts, flowers in four seasons, opera figures and so on.

2. Foshan paper-cutting

It spread in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is an ancient traditional folk art with rich style, Gu Zhuo, resplendent and magnificent colors, magnificent and unrestrained structure, the integration of cutting, engraving, chiseling, printing, writing and lining, and the ingenious combination of materials and expression techniques, with distinctive local characteristics.

3. High-density paper cutting

One of the three wonders of traditional folk art in gaomi city. Including window flowers, doormats, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, snuff, flowers, happy flowers, spring flowers, funeral flowers and so on. Its spread is closely related to festivals and customs in Gaomi rural areas. Window grilles, doormats and snuff are hung during the Spring Festival or Lantern Festival.

4. Pixian paper-cutting

It is a traditional paper-cutting art popular in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, with Pixian as the most characteristic. There are two kinds, namely, dissolving paper and paper-cutting. The main uses of Pixian paper-cut are window grilles, wedding flowers, fireworks, shoes, door stickers, fragrant flowers, paper-cut flowers, paper-cut banners and so on.

5. Ruichang paper-cutting

Ruichang is an ancient traditional folk art, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the north of Jiangxi Province. Its unique geographical position has greatly influenced Ruichang's paper-cutting style. Ruichang paper-cut has both feminine beauty and exquisite beauty in the south and masculine beauty in the north, which is simple and unrestrained.

Extended knowledge

In Qingyang, Gansu, on holidays, women marry their daughters and celebrate their birthdays at the full moon. Rural women have to clean courts, paste walls, cut hinge paper and make window grilles. Paper-cut flowers have different names because of their different positions. Door flowers affixed to doors, window grilles affixed to windows, surrounding flowers affixed to kang walls, and ceiling flowers affixed to ceilings.

Paper-cutting is as essential as whole grains in Qingyang. Where people live, there are paper-cut flowers. Paper-cutting has become the spiritual pillar for rural women in Qingyang to beautify their lives and express their feelings.

Windows, doors, kiln walls and kang wai have become an artistic world for women to show their skills. Qingyang paper-cut originates from life and pays attention to interest. It is the crystallization of working women's production and living customs and cultural inheritance, and it is the flower watered by their love.