Paper cutting as China's intangible culture, what are the traditional stories

The legendary story of paper-cutting:

Once upon a time, Yangzhou City, there lived a fatherless and motherless little girl, who did not know her last name, what she called, because she relied on the cut flower look to sell money for a living, everyone called her "flower girl".

One day, the flower girl early in the morning to go out to sell flowers like, running around all day, only earned a few dollars. On her way home, she saw a bunch of people watching the show and went over to the front. She squeezed forward to see a grandmother sitting on the side of the road is for people to cut flowers like it. The flower girl said in her heart: "I always cut the flower is not as good as others, always sell, this day just to learn the trick, see how others cut."

Only to see the old grandmother's clippers in the hand as if alive, paper in her hands three turns two turns, a flower looks cut out. Boy! This flower look cut really god, those branches, petals, leaves, flowers, more beautiful than the real flowers! She was mesmerized. Until the grandmother closed the stall, she kneeled down and begged the grandmother to take her as an apprentice. To learn how to cut flowers from the grandmother.

Afterward, some people said: the grandmother is the Eight Immortals in the Hexian Nun change. Soon the reputation of Flower Maiden spread all over Yangzhou City.

From then on, the doorway of the Flower Maiden's house was bustling with people buying patterns and asking for advice, almost breaking the door.

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The development of paper-cutting process:

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty (6th century BC), before that it is not possible to have the emergence of the art of paper-cutting, but the people then use the thin sheet of material, through the hollowing out of the carving techniques made of handicrafts, but as early as when there is no paper, it has been popular. Popular, that is, to carve, skeletonization, ticking, carving, cutting techniques in gold foil, leather, silk, and even in the leaves cut patterns.

"Historical Records" in the cut Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty King Cheng with the sycamore leaves cut into "Gui" given to his brother, sealed Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. During the Warring States period, there is leather skeletonization, (Hubei Jiang Ling Wangshan one of the Chu Tomb unearthed artifacts), silver foil skeletonization engraved (Henan Huixian solid surrounding the village of one of the excavated artifacts of the Warring States ruins), are the same with the paper-cutting withdrawal, their emergence for the formation of folk paper-cutting to lay the foundation for a certain degree.

The North and South Dynasties period, "Mulan" in the poem "to the mirror to paste flowers yellow". The earliest discovery of paper-cutting works in China is the discovery of five flower cut-outs from the Northern Dynasties (386-581 AD), which were unearthed near the Flaming Mountain in Turpan, Xinjiang.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Paper Cutting