Paper-cutting has a culture of thousands of years. What are the styles of paper-cutting in ancient China?

Folk paper-cutting is an artistic style created by working people to meet their spiritual needs, and it has been applied and spread among them. It exists in the deep soil of workers' life, is not restricted by utilitarian thoughts and values, embodies the most basic aesthetic concept and spiritual quality of human art, and has distinctive artistic characteristics and life interest.

Technically speaking, paper-cutting is actually cutting and carving on paper to express the image to be expressed. Working people have perfected this art form in their long-term artistic practice and life practice by virtue of their own intelligence. Formed a variety of techniques such as tearing paper, ironing paper, color matching, color matching, dyeing, sketching, etc., so that the expressive force of paper-cutting extends infinitely in depth and breadth. As thin as a silkworm spinning silk and as thick as a big brush.

Its different forms can be attached to the pendulum lining or hung in the air. Because the tools and materials of paper-cutting are simple and popular, and the techniques are easy to master, it has irreplaceable characteristics of other art categories. Therefore, this art form has spread almost all over China's urban and rural areas since ancient times, and won the people's love.

In human childhood, there is no distinction between "folk" and "non-folk". With the continuous development of civilization, the emergence of social classes and the division of functions, the historical concept of "folk art" relative to "court art" and "literati art" has been formed. Different types of works reflect the aesthetic standards of different classes and should be the basis of their boundaries. As far as paper-cutting is concerned, not all works cut and carved with paper can be described as "folk paper-cutting".