Which type of window clings for different holidays? The answer is here

China is the birthplace of paper-cutting, which not only shows the beauty, but also closely linked to traditional culture, is the treasure of Chinese folk art, through paper-cutting, we can see the customs and life.

The seasonal season in the folk are particularly valued, to the New Year's Day, paper-cutting activities are particularly prominent, generally in the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, February 2, Dragon Boat Festival and July 7, these festivals commonly used to express the joy of paper-cutting.

First, the Spring Festival paper cutting

There are three forms of Spring Festival paper cutting, respectively, window, door paper, wall flowers.

Window

As the name suggests, it is pasted on the window paper cuttings, is the most common form, every New Year's Eve, families must be pasted on the window, Figure a good luck, festive. Window pattern is mostly ancient and modern characters, auspicious animals, valuable flowers and plants as the theme, with a simple pair of scissors and a piece of paper, to create a large number of cut exquisite, rich in the flavor of life paper-cutting works. People celebrating, happy mood expressed to the fullest.

Window flowers is the most widely distributed folk paper-cutting, the most popular varieties, regardless of the North and South regions, in the Spring Festival time to stick on the window flowers. The form of the window decorative window pane corners of the corner of the flower, there are also folded branches of flowers, more free of all kinds of suitable pattern, in short, to adapt to the different shapes of the window pane into a different arrangement, hosted by the New Year's resignation of the old and welcome the new, to receive the blessing of good luck and good wishes.

Door paper

In the types of paper-cutting, in addition to window flowers, the production and use of the largest number of door paper. Door paper is a set of paper cuttings posted on the beams of windows and doors during festivals, also known as hanging money, happy paper, hanging money, red paper, etc., which was transformed from the custom of cutting spring streamers in the Tang Dynasty. Its shape is like a flag streamer, the head of the sky is larger, the outer edge is wider, the bottom is tassel, mostly carved in red paper, there are also other colors or sets of colors.

Most of the patterns are neat geometric patterns and patterns of auspicious words: such as "universal celebration", "national prosperity and public safety", "a good year", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather", "good weather". "Good weather", "Jade", "Magpie", "Fortune, Luck, Longevity, Happiness and Wealth". "Five Prosperity" and so on. Posting or a word, or a content, a set of hanging, generally to post five for more. In addition to welcome the spring in addition to the old accident, also has the meaning of praying for blessings and drive away evil spirits, so every Spring Festival, hanging on the lintel of a variety of door paper fluttering in the wind, not only joy, but also for us to bring the joy of spring and hope.

Wall Flowers

Wall Flowers is the flowers on the wall, used to decorate the walls of the house and the ceiling ceiling paper cuttings, pasted on the bed around the bed, called "bed around the flowers"; pasted on the head of the stove, called the "stove flower". The size is usually slightly larger than that of the window flower, and there are monochrome and colorful ones. The colorful ones can be divided into dotted colors, lined colors, and split colors. The theme of the kangwai flowers to opera stories, folklore, mainly Chang'e Moon, Peony Pavilion, the West Wing and other characters; stove flowers of the theme of more auspicious content, such as "grain harvest," "LianYuYouYu" and so on, generally to the rough and heavy paper cuts for the more.

Second, the Lantern Festival paper cutting:

Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, families will hang colored lanterns in front of the door. Colorful lanterns modeling, each with its own characteristics, paper cutting this time to make a grand appearance, it is posted on the lanterns, the use of paper-cutting the most is the horse lanterns and sandwiched between the gauze lamps.

Lanterns are pasted on the lantern paper cuttings, more focus on the skeletonization skills, folk lamps handed down the main process is the use of paper paste, paper and paper-cutting, paper-cutting patterns have become indispensable decorations in the lanterns, most of the contents of the carving is to pray for peace, wealth and longevity, good luck and wishes for a harmonious life a variety of subjects.

The outer contour of the paper cutouts of colored lanterns is prominent, with more lines and large blank areas, mainly considering the effect of light. Color lamps with its unique light and shadow effect shows the practical function and modeling characteristics of paper cutting.

Third, February 2 paper cutting:

February 2 of the lunar calendar, is the day of the dragon's head, the weather began to warm up, the rain gradually increased, and animals began to wake up. Earth recovery, spring plowing from south to north one after another to start, rural people cut more dragons and snakes pasted on the door, windows, pigsties, chicken nests, it is said to be able to avoid disease. Big dragons and small dragons, alive and well, to meet the earth recovery.

Fourth, the Dragon Boat Festival paper cuts:

Dragon Boat Festival paper cuts in addition to praying for blessings, but also to have the characteristics of the evil spirits, the content is often to the five poisons pattern, gourd pattern based on the meaning of more blessings and more longevity, prosperity, Dragon Boat Festival, the door on the gourd, to drive away the evil spirits to avoid disasters and to protect the safety of the people.

Fifth, July 7 paper cutting:

July 7 of the lunar calendar, is the legendary day of the meeting of the cowherd and the weaving maiden, also known as the Begging Day, legend has it that this day, the star of the cowherd and the weaving maiden star both down to the earth, to the people to teach the paper-cutting and embroidery process, the festival of the paper-cutting is more than eulogy for the love of the subject matter.

In Shandong, paper-cutting there is a song, "July, July 7, cut a cowherd arch weaver. First cut the simple cowherd, then cut the clever weaver, the bridge magpie cut ten million, so that the cowherd will be his wife. During this festival, women hope to have a pair of skillful hands and pray for a husband as they wish. Will also get together, through the paper-cutting activities, to compare whose hands are clever.