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What are the names of window grilles?

China's classical window grilles all have these names: Wan, family reunion, all the best, smooth sailing and more than a year. The content of window grilles is mainly based on the connection of images, and most of them are combined. Due to the exaggerated deformation in modeling, some laws of formal beauty of patterns can be used for symmetry, uniformity, balance, combination and continuity.

It can arrange the sun, moon, stars, birds and clouds on the same picture, just like buildings, people and animals on the ground. Common ones are "layers of high bases" or "changing things for scenery".

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Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass, which is one of the traditional folk arts of Han nationality in ancient China. It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad.

Window grillage is a characteristic art of farming culture, and the rural living geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art have distinctive Han folk customs and artistic characteristics.

In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. In the south, it is only posted when you get married, and it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. Stick grilles is still very popular in the north. In Fengning, Hebei Province, if there is no stick grilles during the Spring Festival, people will guess whether something happened to this family.

One of the paper-cut varieties. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, the vast rural areas put paper-cuts on the windows before the Spring Festival. Generally speaking, the style of window grilles is relatively free, except for the "corner flower" stuck in the four corners and the "group flower" folded and cut, there is no restriction on its outer contour. The theme of window grilles is very wide, and there are a lot of drama stories. Window grilles are more common in the north.