What is the origin of the name window grilles?

Origin of the name of window grilles: Before the Western Han Dynasty, people used gold foil, leaves, leather and other materials for carving and decoration. Later, with the invention of paper, they began to replace it with lighter and cheaper paper, hence the name window grilles. It was not until the Song and Yuan Dynasties that people changed the posting of Spring Festival couplets to the posting of Spring Festival couplets, symbolizing good luck in the new year.

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.

Extended data

Window grilles are divided into north-south styles, and the south is exquisite and beautiful, 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 the clippings in Han people's festive 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, usually called the Spring Festival, decorating the living room environment in stick grilles is an important part of the Spring Festival celebrations in China.