Chinese Paper Cutting Masters Ranking

Ranking of Chinese Paper Cutting Masters: Ku Shulan, Shen Chenglin, Guo Rulin, Gao Zhiqin, Guo Lin, Li Fengying, and others.

1, Ku Shulan (1920--2004), female, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province, Equatorial Township, Fu Village, one of the outstanding representatives of the Chinese folk paper-cutting art, China's folk arts and crafts masters, known as the "flower cutter".

Ku Shulan was born in a poor peasant family. At the age of six, she began to learn paper cutting and painting with her mother. Her paper-cutting style of bold compositions, full of characters, bright colors, and soon received the attention of the art world. Her artistic paper-cutting has been exhibited in Xi'an Artist Gallery, National Art Museum of China and Central Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1996, she was awarded the title of "Outstanding Master of Folk Art" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the first Chinese to receive this title. The colorful sticker paper-cutting represented by Kushulan has been listed on the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.

2, Shen Chenglin, the only executive director of the Chinese paper-cutting Society of Sichuan, China Association of Literary Artists, China's top ten paper-cutting artists, national second-class artist, provincial paper-cutting intangible cultural heritage representative inheritor.

Shen Chenglin was born in 1945 and is 76 years old this year. Since his student days, Shen Chenglin has been interested in arts and crafts.

After graduating from junior high school in 1959, 14-year-old Shen Chenglin entered the Zigong Arts and Crafts Factory, which mainly produces paper-cutting, Gong fan, tie-dye, lacquerware, bamboo curtains and other handicrafts, as an apprentice, and followed Yu Manbai, who was awarded the Grand Prize for paper-cutting at the Leipzig World Expo in Germany, to learn paper-cutting. Today, numerous scissors have accompanied him through 62 years of paper-cutting career.

Paper-cutting is a popular folk name, in fact, its academic name should be the art of cutting paintings.