Where is the custom of cutting window grilles?

Cutting window grilles is a custom in Shaanxi. Shaanxi is an important birthplace of ancient civilization in China. Paper-cutting with window grilles has a long history and is widely spread among the people. Every New Year's Day, bright red window paper is pasted on the windows of grey tile houses in Guanzhong and caves in Shaanxi Plateau to express people's good wishes and increase the festive atmosphere. Stick grilles is an ancient festival custom. During the Spring Festival, people in many areas of China like to stick various paper-cut window grilles on their windows.

Shaanxi window grilles have a variety of genres, including figures, birds and animals, flowers and plants, fish and insects, and are characterized by rough and bold, concise and exaggerated. Paper-cutting in northern Shaanxi is simple, pure and bold; Guanzhong paper-cut is exquisite and concise, beautiful and magnificent.

Baking windows is a unique art of farming civilization. The geographical environment of the village, the characteristics of agricultural production and social customs and habits also make this local art have distinctive China folk customs and artistic characteristics.