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Can anyone tell the legend of the paper cut in 100 words? Hurry up! It's urgent!

Once upon a time, there was a family living in the city of Beijing, only two people, a gray-haired grandmother, and a girl called the show girl. These two grandchildren are dexterous people, a pair of scissors and a few sheets of paper under their hands, can vividly cut out birds and animals and flowers and window shoes, whether it is the New Year's festivals or ordinary days, there are neighbors to the door to ask for. The grandchildren always responded to the request, and then also rely on the sale of window clippings, cut flowers to make a living. Xiu Nü and her grandmother were in contact with almost all poor people. Some young men were getting married and could not afford to decorate their new houses, so Grandma and Xiu Nü cut some paper flowers for them, such as lovebirds in pairs, magpies in pairs, and what's more, "good harvest" and "good fortune", and pasted them on the windows, hung them on the doorframes, laid them on the beds, covered them with quilts, pressed them on the desktops, and glued them to the windows. The new house is not a "poor gas" at all, but it is not a lot of money, red-hot and auspicious, lively and lively. Some girls make new shoes, grandmothers and showgirls cut some shoe samples, what "step by step", "safe journey" and "double happiness", etc., according to the sample embroidered on the upper, wear on the feet, walk there, all will be people When you go there, you will be appreciated for the good pattern. Legend has it that in the Guangxu years, one day from the palace sent down the imperial decree, said the Empress Dowager Empress Dowager Cixi to be held sixty birthday, inside and outside of Kyoto to pay tribute to the birthday gift of silver, on and off the ministers and workers have to put on the birthday dress. What is the birthday suit? That is, on the day of Cixi birthday, on and off the ministers, etc., all to wear to the crane and the plum blossom deer composed of "six (deer) and (crane) with the spring" pattern of the robe. In those days, the imperial decree is the golden words, who do not dare to disobey. For a time, Beijing up and down, many embroidery workshop, all busy. Rich people, in order to please Cixi's heart, looking for embroidery work with gold and silver thread as a pattern, asked for Cixi birthday wear robes embellished with the richer the better. There are also those who are rich, but also think of ways to make new embroidered robes, in order to "show off". Tossed dozens of embroidery workshop in the capital, as well as small households scattered embroidery, there is no exception, making a fuss over everyone, busy simply not even a breath of work. So a fuss, the fuss embroidery money, but also with the increasing, a day a price, more and more expensive, really a needle and a line worth a thousand pieces of gold, an embroidered robe worth ten thousand taels of silver. But there is a saying in Beijing, dry soil hit a high wall, no money can not cover the house. Cixi life, can be really difficult to live in a thousand poor families, the alarm of the family worried, how to worry about the money to Cixi 60th birthday. Therefore, some say we simply take advantage of the early to a "ball of iron on the slide - slip it! Escape from the capital, flee to the mountains to hide in the old forest, but more people feel really a little broken home hard to give up, hard to leave their homeland. The showgirl and the grandmother belong to such a family. The showgirl and the grandmother sat at home worrying, worrying and what can be done? As the day passed, they didn't come up with any good ideas. The grandmother's idea was to let Xiu Nü go into hiding. But how could she bear to leave her grandmother alone? How can she not do so. Later, no one expected. One day near noon, a beautiful girl suddenly came to Xiu Nü's house. When the grandmother saw her, she thought she came to ask for a paper-cutting pattern, and before she could ask, she greeted her and then pleaded, "Granny, please do me a favor and give me something to eat!" Hearing this, the grandmother thought, "Oh! So it's a beggar! It's so sad to see him starving." Xiu Nü, without saying a word, turned around and went to the stove room, holding out two nests of food, the big girl was not polite at all, and took it over and ate it. The old granny said, "Girl, I'll go boil some water for you to drink!" After saying that, she turned around and went into the stove room. As the girl was eating her nest, she smiled and said to Xiu Nü, "Please give me another piece of pickle to eat, thank you!" Hearing this, the showgirl thought to herself, "Yes, why didn't I think of bringing a piece of pickled cabbage, how can I let people eat without pickled cabbage?" She turned around and went to the stove room to get some pickles. But when the showgirl came back from the cookhouse with the pickles, she froze. "Huh! Where did they go?" She thought this in her heart as she pushed open the door and looked out, but she didn't see a single figure. But she turned around, but saw a cloth robe on the table in the house, and hastily shouted up: "Hey, poor beggar sister, you there? ......" The showgirl was so anxious that she shouted several times in a row like this, and because of the loud voice, the old grandmother also heard it. The old granny heard the showgirl say that the girl went away, and forgot to put down a piece of clothing, said: "showgirl, you see that the girl wearing on the body is already thin enough, you quickly chase her to go, give her clothes, let her put on good warm ......." The old granny mouth while saying so, on the one hand and the showgirl out of the door, one south and one north to chase forward, chased out a full several miles away, still did not even see a shadow of a person. After the grandmother and the showgirl came back, the showgirl shook off the garment and immediately cried out, "Grandma, you quickly come to see: this is still a 'six contract spring' birthday wear robe which!" The grandmother took a look, and it was true: "The embroidery is really good!" As she looked at it, she couldn't help but say so, and while touching the embroidery of the robe with her hand, she said, "Xiu Nü, do you see how it's embroidered? Let's think about it carefully!" The showgirl let the grandmother so say, but also carefully up, the robe stretch out, the grandparents and grandchildren carefully look, all stunned: the original, the robe on the pattern, not with silk thread embroidery, but all with the pattern of paper cutouts pasted on. At this time, the showgirl and the grandmother heart are very puzzled: "This beggar girl, what in the end she is doing ah? This dress,......." Or showgirl than the old grandmother head turn fast, she was so excited that almost jumped up, said: "Grandma, I guess that sister is not specially for us to send 'six contract spring' to worship the birthday robe of the flower look to come?" Let the showgirl so say, the old grandmother heart also understand: "Perhaps it is the heavenly weaver fairy down to help our poor people's favor, don't let our poor people for Cixi birthday anxious and worried,......." Xiu Nü heard the grandmother such a slow voice slowly said, it is more happy, she then said: "Grandma, that sister can do, and sent us a flower look, then we will learn according to the flower look,......." Showgirl and grandmother, the two grandchildren, said to do it, following the example of drawing gourds, did not take much time, rushed to make a "six contracts spring" birthday robe. Granny let the showgirl draped over the body to try, the pattern is embroidered needle and thread, or with paper cutouts pasted on, such as not to look carefully, it is really difficult to distinguish. Showgirls and grandmothers with the art of paper-cutting made "six contracts spring" birthday suit, the news spread, Beijing is not only many poor people come to the door to seek to do, is even some of the rich and powerful families have come to customize birthday suit. In the 60th birthday of Cixi day, some officials are wearing by the grandmother and showgirls carefully made birthday dress, even the cunning and treacherous Cixi can not tell whether it is embroidered by hand, or with the paper-cutting sticker of the birthday robe! So from this beginning, Beijing's folk art of paper-cutting fame.