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[1] Window grilles are paper cuts stuck 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. [2]

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. They are pinning their hopes on 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.

The cutting and carving forms of window grilles are as follows: First, 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"

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

The history of paper-cutting handicraft art, that is, paper-cutting in the true sense, should begin with the appearance of paper. The invention of paper in Han Dynasty promoted the appearance, development and popularization of paper-cutting. Paper is a moldy material. In the southeast of China, the climate is humid, coupled with rainy days in May and June every year, paper products will rot over time, and folk paper-cutting is a popular thing. People don't keep it as a treasure, and they can cut it if it is broken. In the northwest of China, the weather is dry, the climate is dry, and the paper is not easy to get moldy, which may also be one of the important reasons for the discovery of paper-cutting in the Northern Dynasties in Turpan, Xinjiang. Paper-cutting in Tang Dynasty-Paper-cutting in Tang Dynasty has been in a period of great development. There is a saying in Du Fu's poem that "warm water fills my feet, and paper-cutting calls my soul". The custom of paper-cutting calling my soul has spread among the people at that time. The paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty, which is now in the British Museum, shows that the paper-cut at that time had a high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, expressing an ideal realm between heaven and earth. Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the carved patterns of flowers and trees have the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the pattern of "Duiyang" in Masakura Hospital in Japan is a typical artistic expression of hand cutting. In the Tang dynasty, there was also block printing made of paper-cutting. People carved it into wax paper with thick paper, and then printed the dye on the cloth to form beautiful patterns.

In Song Dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting. For example, it can be used as "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window grilles" pasted on windows, or as decorations for lanterns and teacups. The application scope of folk paper-cutting in Song Dynasty gradually expanded. Jiangxi Jizhou Kiln uses paper-cut as the pattern of ceramics, and makes the ceramics more exquisite by glazing and firing. Folk also use paper-cutting to carve figures in shadow play with the skins of animals such as donkeys, cows, horses and sheep. Carved version made of blue printed cloth, carved into patterns with oilpaper board, and scratched patterns made by paper-cutting technology, divided into yin and yang engraving. Long lines should be cut off to distinguish facts from truth.

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, rural women are the most basic team of China folk paper-cutting crafts. 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.

China folk paper-cut handicraft art, like an ivy, is ancient and evergreen, and its unique popularity, practicality and aesthetics have become a symbolic meaning that meets people's psychological needs.

Paper-cut Art Each art has its own unique artistic style. Paper-cutting materials (paper) and tools (scissors and carving knives) determine that paper-cutting has its own artistic style. Paper-cut art is a kind of folk art that is easy to learn but difficult to master. Most of the authors come from rural women and folk artists. Because they take what they see and hear in real life as the theme, and observe things according to simple feelings and intuitive impressions, they have formed a special style of paper-cutting art, which embodies the unpretentious spirit of farmers.

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Han Xu, Huangdi and Houyi fought against a sun. At this time, a scream shook, followed by several piercing strange cries. I saw the sun spinning and flying upwards. It turned out that Hou Yi shot a sword with a golden bow, so that the wings on Sun's back had been cut off in half obliquely, and the golden blood splashed out of the wound like a whirlwind rain, and the falling place instantly turned into a fiery sea of fire. When Zhuan Xu saw it, he shouted,' Where is the evil barrier?' Rushed to chase again. Unexpectedly, the sun was unusually fierce and stubborn, suddenly turned right, followed by the emperor who was fighting for the rules, and spit out the cone of heaven. The emperor was caught off guard and didn't flicker to block, and a golden light flashed across his left shoulder; Only heard the emperor sigh with pain, turned over and fell under the cloud. Then the sun went straight for Zhuan Xu. Zhuan Xu didn't expect it to fight regardless of life, busy waving the sword; But the evil barrier was poor and crazy, regardless of the sword waving in front, and rushed to Zhuan Xu; Zhuan Xu's foot was firmly clamped by the foot at the bottom, Zhuan Xu's left arm was firmly clamped by the right foot at the top, and his right shoulder was firmly clamped by his left foot; Then frantically threw his head back, opened his mouth, spat and melted, and swallowed Zhuan Xu's whip.

Why is Sun so capable that he can compete with the strength of Zhuan Xu, the emperor and Hou Yi? It turns out that in ancient times, after Pangu, the great creator of the world, completed the great cause of creating the world, he turned the used cone and axe into a ball and surrounded the world in turn. Tian Kai cone is made into an anode golden ball, and people call it the sun; Chop the axe into a cathode silver ball, which people call the moon. After three emperors and five emperors, the sun has continuously absorbed the essence of heaven and earth and accumulated its own soul in these ten thousand years. This is the sun. It has three wings and four feet. One wing on its back is a protective golden wing, which can protect it from all things in the world. It can also spit and melt and swallow everything; What is particularly powerful is that it becomes an open cone of the heart bone, which can be invincible.

At first, the sun was still moving in its original trajectory, warming the world. But with the improvement of mana, I gradually ignored everything, and later disturbed the law of love between heaven and earth, giving birth to nine suns, which harmed the world. The mountains and rivers dried up and the people died tragically. When the Jade Emperor learned of the ten-day disaster, he sent Hou Yi to shoot for nine days to make the sun turn over a new leaf. But he blamed heaven for all of them, demanding that the Jade Emperor compensate his nine sons and kill Hou Yi. So there was this battle between good and evil. Because the sun has protective golden wings, the gods fought against it for more than 3 thousand days, but there was nothing they could do. Fortunately, Nu Wa deified the moon into an extremely Yin sword and gave it to Zhuan Xu. With the power of pure Yin, she broke the wings of the sun's pure Yang and cut off the wings of the sun to protect gold.

Just as Sun was about to melt Zhuan Xu's head, a golden light suddenly shot into Sun's back. The sun made a strange cry to the sky, but his four feet held tighter because of the sharp pain. At this time, Zhuan Xu fought back the severe pain, seized the opportunity, swung his sword down hard with his right arm, and cut off Sun's left foot. The golden wing of the sun has just been cut off, and he is crazy with injuries. At this time, he was injured by a broken foot. Although he is crazy, after all, his strength has failed and there is nothing he can do. After he was thrown out of Zhuan Xu, he repeatedly screamed and fell to the ground. When the emperor saw it, he reluctantly picked up the fallen ruler, raised his right hand to face the sun, held the ruler in his left hand, aimed it at the sun and muttered something to himself. I saw a circle of white halo spread from the gauge center and expanded rapidly. When the aperture is too short, a circle of square halo also spreads from the edge of the moment, forming a' round place' barrier and sealing it inside the sun cover. At that moment, he just shot an arrow at Sun's back. He quickly picked up Zhuan Xu's sword and shot it with a bow, which went straight through Sun's heart. I saw this vicious and heartless evil barrier. After struggling for a while, I spit out a few fierce melts that fell in all directions before I was finally subdued.

A dark thousand-day battle is finally over. But heaven and earth fell into a gloomy darkness. It turned out that the sun was captured, the moon became a sword, and there was no sun and moon glory in the sky. So Nu Wa turned her sword back to the moon, took out the heart of the sun, turned it into a new sun, pure as ever, and heaven and earth saw the light again. The gods originally wanted to cut off the sun, but they have decided the future trouble. However, this sun was originally transformed by Pangu, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth for thousands of years. Became an immortal soul and could only be sealed. Because it is embodied in the Tian Kai cone, no legal object can seal it forever. While the gods were thinking, the black feet that were cut off suddenly attacked Nuwa. Although it was beheaded by the gods, this evil enchantment took advantage of the slight confusion of the gods, broke the seal, put itself into Hou Yi's body, and asked him to live and die with himself and get back at him. And threw a drop of its blood into the newborn sun, so the shadow of the sun's three legs appeared in the newborn sun. Although the new sun can follow the original trajectory, it is no longer the eternal warm sun. Because of the influence of that drop of evil blood, not only the temperature in one day is constantly changing, but also the overall temperature in several periods of the year is different, so the world has changed in the morning and evening and in the four seasons. Although the new sun is not eternal warmth, it can increase the interest of heaven and earth and make people more energetic, which is a coincidence that the sun can't harm people.

Heaven and earth finally returned to normal. In order to commemorate and let future generations cherish this hard-won light, people call the day when the sun rises again New Year's Day, expecting new and better changes every day. People also cut paper to record the battle and put it on the window as a souvenir, thus leaving the custom of stick grilles on New Year's Day.

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