Spring theme paper-cut works

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities.

Its continuous visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, and has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication? .

On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, held from September 28th to1October 2nd, 65438, China announced that Chinese paper-cutting project was selected into the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

On 20 18 12, the general office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the heritage base of Chinese excellent traditional culture in paper cutting.

The development of history

The invention of paper-cutting was in the Western Han Dynasty BC. Before that, there could be no paper-cutting art. But at that time, people used thin materials to make handicrafts, but it was popular long before paper appeared, that is, patterns were carved on gold foil, leather, silk and even leaves by carving, carving, picking, carving and cutting.

According to Records of the Historian Jiantong Di Feng, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the leaves of the pole were cut into "poles" and given to his younger brother, who was named Tang Hou. Leather carvings and silver foil hollowed-out carvings in the Warring States period (one of the cultural relics unearthed at the Warring States site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province) are exactly the same as paper-cutting, and their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.