Present situation of Tangshan paper-cutting

It's good. In the 1980s, China Paper-cut Research Association was established, and all cities in China have paper-cut associations. According to the old artists, many artists in Tangshan in Qing Dynasty made a living by selling paper-cut shoes, hats and pillows. ). Now Ai's paper-cutting is an innovation and improvement based on the original traditional culture in Tangshan. In recent years, it has created a new Tangshan "Jidong Shadow Paper-cut". This work is collected by the Ministry of Culture of China.

The main characteristics of paper-cutting vary from place to place, based on traditional folk culture, such as shoes and clothes. Modern Tangshan paper-cut is mainly composed of Tangshan shadow play and paper-cut, forming the present Tangshan paper-cut style "Shadow Play Group Flower Paper-cut", which has its unique regional style and can be divided into two types. One is a folk paper-cut made by a rural grandmother. Most of these works are cut by old artists with big scissors, and their works are "original ecological paper-cut" in Jidong, also known as "Tangshan hinge paper". This kind of works are basically loved and studied by experts and scholars; The other is modern realistic paper-cutting, mainly with knife carving. The themes of the works are mostly figures, flowers and birds, landscapes, fish and insects. The work is also called Tangshan carved paper.

Tangshan paper-cutting has formed its own unique style in recent years, among which Mr. Sun Dongyi was invited by the Ministry of Culture to attend the "Great Hall of the People" seminar on Chinese paper-cutting art; Ai Junbo was invited by the Ministry of Culture of China to participate in national and international paper-cutting art festivals and seminars in Shanxi, Shandong, Beijing and Zhejiang. In 2009, Ai Junbo assisted Professor Zhao of Tsinghua University in compiling the textbook Paper-cutting Skills, which was published by Higher Education Press and distributed nationwide in 2009. Tangshan paper-cut workers have published three collections of paper-cut works.