Illustration of paper-cut course

The paper-cutting tutorial is as follows:

1. Take a square piece of colored paper and fold it diagonally into a triangle.

2. Divide the base of the triangle into three parts with an angle of 180 degrees, and the angle of each part is 60 degrees.

3. Fold the right corner along the right dotted line and align it with the left dotted line, as shown below:

4. Similarly, the left corner is folded along the left dotted line and aligned with the right dotted line.

5. Fold the colored paper in the above picture vertically again along the center line, as shown below. This is the hexagonal origami method, also known as the twelve-fold method.

6. Make paper-cut patterns on the folded colored paper, as shown below.

7. Cut along the pattern, and the arc in the middle can also be carved with a meat cleaver.

8. When expanded, it looks like the picture below. There is a five-pointed star in the middle and five hearts and petals outside.

This paper-cut pattern is very simple, easy to draw and cut, and there is nothing particularly difficult to cut. Beginners practice their hands very well.

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.

It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses 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 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".

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.