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What are the nice names of window grilles?

"Auspicious and festive", "Good harvest of grains", "Good harvest of grains", "Prosperity of people and animals", "More than every year", "Precious flowers and auspicious birds" and so on;

In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. In the south, it is only posted when you get married, and it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. Stick grilles is still very popular in the north. In Fengning, Hebei Province, if there is no stick grilles during the Spring Festival, people will guess whether something happened to this family. One of the paper-cut varieties. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, the vast rural areas put paper-cuts on the windows before the Spring Festival.

Generally speaking, the style of window grilles is relatively free, except for the "corner flower" stuck in the four corners and the "group flower" folded and cut, there is no restriction on its outer contour. The theme of window grilles is very wide, and there are a lot of drama stories. Window grilles are more common in the north.

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Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.

Window grilles have a history of thousands of years, and gradually spread and shaped during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. The traditional paper-cut handicraft art of Han nationality is widely used, for example, the flower decorations on Han folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans, embroidery patterns, etc., are all reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration.