What are the forms of window grilles?

Window grilles are paper-cut pasted on window paper or window glass. 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.

Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.

Window grilles have a history of thousands of years, and gradually spread and shaped during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. Folk paper-cut handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns, all of which are reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration. What's more, Chinese people often use paper-cutting as decoration to beautify the home environment, such as door battlements, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers, which are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms. In addition to the paper-binding pattern craftsmen who appeared after the Southern Song Dynasty, the most basic team of folk paper-cutting handicrafts in China is rural women. Female red is an important symbol of the perfection of traditional women in China. As a compulsory skill of needlework, paper-cutting has become a skill that girls have to learn since childhood. They want to learn paper-cut patterns from their predecessors or sisters, cut out new patterns through cutting, re-cutting, painting and cutting, and describe the natural scenery they are familiar with and love, the scenery of fish, insects, birds, beasts, flowers, trees, pavilions and bridges, and finally reach the realm of their will.

Window cut is the most widely distributed, the largest number and the most popular variety among folk paper-cuts. Divided into "North-South Style", the South takes "exquisiteness" as beauty and is characterized by exquisiteness; The beauty of simplicity and vividness in the north is characterized by innocence and integrity. Other paper-cut varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window grilles. During the Spring Festival, rural areas in the north and the south all hope to have stick grilles to decorate the environment and enhance the atmosphere, placing their hopes of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Window grilles are the most representative of carving art in terms of subject matter, expression and carving techniques. Modern window grilles have gradually formed an independent art category, but they are called "window grilles" because they originally originated from clip art in folk festivals or folk activities, and were mostly pasted on the white paper of rural windows. For everyone, window grilles are a beautiful title, which can cause a lot of lingering and emotion. On the first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as the Spring Festival, decorating the living room environment with window grilles has become an important part of the Spring Festival celebrations in China. [ 1]

The cutting and carving forms of window grilles are as follows: 1. Monochrome cutting and carving are widely used in red paper paper cutting. Second, color paper-cutting, big windows in palaces and shops or windows in halls and facades. Thirdly, the relief paper-cutting popular in Gansu and Qinghai has a unique style, which combines cutting and engraving with origami technology. Fourth, colored window grilles can be divided into dyeing and color contrast. Dyed window grilles are the most famous in Fengning and Yuxian, Hebei Province. First engraved and then dyed; Among them, Foshan is the most famous, and the main pattern is cut and carved with gold paper and tin foil paper, backed by colored paper, which is magnificent and elegant. This practice is called "copper lining"

?