What is China traditional culture paper-cut?

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. It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses the social identity, 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 to June 54381October 2nd, 2009, China announced that the Chinese paper-cutting project was included in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".

2. Monochrome paper-cutting: Monochrome paper-cutting is the most basic form of paper-cutting. Paper-cutting has many colors such as red, green, brown, black and gold, which are mainly used for window decoration and embroidery. There are mainly three ways of expression: yin engraving, yang engraving and the combination of yin and yang. Paper-cutting of embroidery patterns is often combined with cutting and stabbing. Folding paper-cutting, silhouette and tearing paper are all manifestations of monochrome paper-cutting.

3. Folding paper-cutting: Folding paper-cutting is the most common way of production and expression among the people. The so-called folding paper-cut is a paper-cut that is folded and cut in different ways. The earliest flowers, such as "Ma Dui" and "Piled Monkey", were cut out by folding. Folding paper-cut folding method is simple, easy to make, labor-saving and time-saving, and the shape has a certain deformation generalization, which is especially suitable for expressing symmetrical shapes and symmetrical graphics. And extremely symmetrical, can be changed into various suitable shapes, two sides continuous, four sides continuous, or multilateral continuous.