Great United Nations! How powerful is Ku Lan Shu's paper-cutting?

People's inherent impression of paper-cut art is red paper-cut pasted on doors and windows, content or people or animals. However, one person created her own paper-cutting style, which made paper-cutting colorful. She is Ku Lan Shu, a woman who lives in a poor cave but creates amazing world art. However, the life of Ku Lan Shu is miserable, and the unfortunate marriage and hardships of life torment this strong woman until her old age.

Born in a poor family, he made an engagement with others very early.

Ku Lan Shu, 1920, from Fucun Village, Equatorial Township, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province. This land is incredibly barren. The loess on the Loess Plateau is piled up layer by layer, and people here are besieged layer by layer. Ku Lan Shu's family is poorer, so Ku Lan Shu has been begging with his father since childhood. Old customs don't let this girl go, and Ku Lan Shu was forced to thicken since she was a child.

At that time, girls from poor families, such as Kushulan, mostly wanted to be betrothed to others early, so as to reduce the burden on their families and get some food or utensils from their husbands. So Ku Lan Shu, who was only 4 years old, made an early marriage with others under the arrangement of his family. At that time, Lan Shu probably didn't know what this meant, but it was this young marriage that became the beginning of the tragic life of Lan Shu.

The division of labor between men and women in the Loess Plateau is very clear. Boys go out to work to make a living, and women have children at home to do housework. Lan Shu's mother is a very traditional housewife. However, mother has a pair of skillful hands, which can create miracles. From her mother, Ku Lan Shu learned paper-cutting and painting, and she also had simple and simple happiness in life.

Ku Lan Shu has a lively personality since he was a child. When she was 1 1 years old, her father sent Ku Lan Shu to study when her family conditions were a little better. This is the happiest thing in her life. She learned more knowledge at school and was full of hope and longing for life. The Chenghuang Temple next to the school is her frequent place, where the appearance of various gods also brought Ku Lan Shu's future creation.

When I was a child, Ku Lan Shu was engaged to a small marriage with his neighbor, and the other party called several times to urge Ku Lan Shu's father to finish the marriage, so Ku Lan Shu dropped out of school after only four years. /kloc-When she was 0/5 years old, she studied needlework at home with her mother and prepared a dowry for herself. It was not until 17 years old that Ku Shulan was taken in by her husband's family and became a relative. She has no idea about marriage, and she never thought that she would face a completely different life after leaving home.

Looking for hope in husband's domestic violence and children's successive deaths

A family that only knows how to live a hard life has no art. Ku Lan Shu and her husband live in a dilapidated cave. Because the husband is the eldest son of the family, the mother-in-law often finds all kinds of troubles to make things difficult for Ku Shulan. Her husband not only doesn't know how to protect her, but also often beats Ku Lan Shu. Plus, there is no * * * topic with her uneducated husband, so Ku Lan Shu can only silently accompany her to do farm work forever, even if it is because of a little mistake.

Ku Lan Shu, who has a talent for literature and art, is gradually tortured to forget his pursuit in his life. Just like an ordinary peasant woman, she only knows how to take care of her family to make a living. During the period of 1 1 living in her husband's family, Ku Lan Shu gave birth to 13 children for her husband, just like a fertility tool. This fertility rate can be said that Ku Lan Shu is either pregnant or in labor in recent years, which is very important for a woman.

Even so, there is no pity for this poor woman. Backward areas are accompanied by backward medical conditions and the lack of various equipment and materials. 13 of the children in Lan Shu died in a few years. In the end, Ku Lan Shu had only three children left. It is hard for normal people to bear the pain of losing a child. It's hard to imagine how Ku Lan Shu faced the successive deaths of her children when she was pregnant in October.

In the day-to-day life, Ku Lan Shu was almost numb, and even forgot that he had a good paper-cutting skill, until one day his neighbor's house was going to hold a wedding. When she thought that there was nothing to decorate the house, she thought of finding someone to cut some paper flowers to decorate it, so Ku Lan Shu helped her neighbor cut paper. In the process of paper-cutting, Ku Lan Shu got a long-lost happiness, as if her life had new hope and meaning, so she picked up rusty scissors and started paper-cutting.

After the accident, Ku Lan Shu found new creative inspiration.

In the past few years, most of Ku Lan Shu's works are about real scenes. Animals, flowers, houses and farmhouses are vividly reflected in each of Ku Lan Shu's works, depicting real life, either suffering or happiness. Every work seems to be telling its own feelings about life. This kind of paper-cut was originally commonly used by local women, until a sudden accident made Ku Lan Shu's creative style change 180 degrees.

/kloc-one day in 0/985, Ku Shulan went out to do farm work as usual, but accidentally fell off a cliff more than ten meters high and fell into a coma. This coma lasted for more than 40 days, which frightened her family, but then Ku Lan Shu miraculously recovered slowly. She said that she was inspired by something. Miss cut flowers? And created the work "Flower-cutting Lady", which is no longer full of amazing patterns like the traditional paper-cutting art.

Does Ku Lan Shu often appear in later works? Miss cut flowers? And she also created her own paper-cutting style, not using a piece of paper to create graphics, but using? Clip art? Colorful forms. Ku Lan Shu decorated her shabby and ugly cave with these paper-cut paintings, and she was completely dressed up. Everyone who has been to Ku Lan Shu Cave should praise it, and gradually Ku Lan Shu has attracted more and more experts' attention.

Paper-cut art has been recognized by the world and won numerous awards.

Ku Lan Shu's works were passed on by more and more people, and were soon known by local county cultural centers. They were collecting precious folk art heritage, so a group of people came to the cave in Lan Shu, Ku. As soon as they entered the cave, the experts were stunned by the dazzling array of paper-cut paintings in front of them. This is a unique paper-cutting art and a beautiful work that cannot be copied. So the staff of the county cultural center gave Ku Shulan more paper-cutting materials and encouraged her to continue her creation.

With the increase of materials, Ku Lan Shu began to have bolder imagination. In her works, we can see lifelike birds and beasts, colorful branches, harvested fruits and various shapes and postures? Miss cut flowers? I have to say that a woman who lives in the Loess Plateau and is bound by life can have such great creativity, which impressed me deeply. People who pay attention to these works have begun to think that they can be publicized to let more people know about Ku Lan Shu and her paper-cutting art.

After the 1990s, with the help of people from all walks of life, Ku Lan Shu's works were finally published, which made Ku Lan Shu quickly known to more people. Later, Ku Lan Shu's paper-cut works were exhibited in Xi 'an Art Museum and China Art Museum with the exhibition in the county, and people from all over the world began to collect them, including France, the United States and Southeast Asia. And there are many admirers to visit and study in Ku Lan Shu's residence.

Ku Lan Shu's paper-cut works originated from the traditional paper-cut art and formed his own personal style, which was recognized by many people at home and abroad. 1996 Ku Lan Shu was awarded by UNESCO? China outstanding master of folk art? How many years have you won this title? China Folk Art Exhibition? Gold Award, Special Paper-cutting Award of Folk Art Exhibition of the Second China National Culture Expo, solo exhibition, can be described as a veritable artist.

Ku Lan Shu's colorful works are in sharp contrast with her dark and miserable living environment. Ku Lan Shu died at home because of a long illness in her later years, but she left the best works of art in the world. What we see in this profile is her unyielding attitude towards reality, her struggle against fate and her hope for life.

There are few folk artists like Ku Lan Shu in modern times, and many folk artists live in extremely difficult environment like Ku Lan Shu. They want to keep their unique skills, but it is difficult to find a successor.

Later, Ku Lan Shu's paper-cut art was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage protection list by the United Nations, but many skills were lost in reality. As a new generation of young people, we should not only pay attention to the increasingly developed modern science and technology, but also pay attention to the traditional culture that has been passed down for many years, and don't let these precious wealth disappear in our lives forever one day.