What are the folk arts in Youxi?

Paper Cutting

Yuxi traditional folk crafts paper cutting has a long history, history records: Yuxi traditional paper-cutting art originated in the Han and Tang. Mainly distributed in the town of Xicheng, Xinyang Town and other places, with a strong local folk characteristics

Yuxi city and countryside since ancient times, there are good at paper-cutting women, for people to cut the new house window. Paper-cutting content is common for the "cold magpies fighting for plums", "Lotus", "Lotus Double Happiness", "Hepsian looking at the Lotus", "Double Carp Playing in the Water", "Phoenix than the wings", "Peach and Plum", "Double Magpies fighting for spring". Window flowers are mostly square, there are also four corners of the flower triangle. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the door of every household and room door should be pasted on the rooster pecking centipede paper cutouts.

Yuxi paper-cutting from ancient origins to the founding of New China, paper-cutting are spontaneous folk activities. After the founding of new China, the government promotes and supports the art of paper-cutting, county cultural departments in the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals are organized to create, held paper-cutting art exhibition. 1990 Lantern Festival, Youxi County, Unity Township, held a large-scale exhibition of paper-cutting works, put forward to unite the township of the township to build for the "township of the art of paper-cutting". Response and wide participation. In the same year, also organized the "commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Mao Zedong paper-cutting exhibition".