Chinese New Year paper cutting how to cut

Chinese New Year paper cutting practice is as follows:

Fold the red colored paper along the diagonal; unfolded and then folded, to form a m-shaped crease; folded into a double triangle; folded along the diagonal, to form a side, four triangles; with a pen to draw a pattern, and then use scissors to cut a good; unfolded is a three-dimensional word of spring. So the Spring Festival paper cutting is done. The "window" is commonly known as paper-cutting.

In the past, regardless of the north and south, during the Spring Festival are pasted window flowers. Now the South only when the marriage is posted, the Spring Festival is generally not posted. And the north of the sticker window is still prevalent, in Fengning, Hebei Province, during the Spring Festival, if the family did not sticker window, people will guess whether the family is out of the matter.

This folk custom with national characteristics has a history of thousands of years. Shanxi folk paper-cutting, especially the window paper-cutting, full of Shanxi folk local flavor, rich local flavor. What "magpies ascend to the plum", "two dragons play pearls", "peacock open screen", "heavenly maiden" and a variety of flowers The patterns of flowers, bugs, fish and birds express the farmers' hopes for the future.

The custom of cutting and pasting the windowpane to welcome spring began to rise after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which is a symbol of the New Year to welcome the new and to receive blessings and good fortune. There are also different styles in the north and south of the country, with the delicate and exquisite sense of beauty in the south, and the naive and mellow simplicity in the north as a blessing. In the days leading up to New Year's Eve, the windows and doors of every house are decked out with various shapes of window flowers, making the New Year's atmosphere even more intense.