Since ancient times, every household has put up paper-cuts during the New Year. When did this start?

China is the birthplace of paper-cutting.

It not only shows beauty, but also has a close connection with traditional culture.

It is a treasure of Chinese folk art.

Through paper-cutting, we can see local customs and lifestyles.

People pay special attention to the paper-cutting activities on the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, February 2, Dragon Boat Festival and July 7, which are usually used to express joy.

Spring Festival paper-cutting There are three forms of Spring Festival paper-cutting, namely window decorations, door decorations and wall decorations.

Paper-cutting for window decoration, as the name suggests, is paper-cutting affixed to the windows. It is the most common form. During the Chinese New Year, every family must affix paper-cutting for window decoration to be auspicious and festive.

Window decoration patterns are mostly based on ancient and modern figures, auspicious animals, precious flowers and plants, etc. With a simple pair of scissors and a piece of paper, a large number of paper-cut works with exquisite cutting skills and full of life style are created.

Express people's festive and happy mood vividly.

Window grilles are the most widely distributed and popular type of folk paper-cutting.

Regardless of the northern or southern regions, window grilles are required during the Spring Festival.

The forms of window grilles include corner flowers that decorate the four corners of the window panes, and folded branches and flowers.

There is more freedom and a variety of suitable modes.

In a word, the window panes of different shapes are arranged in different ways, with good wishes of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, and accepting blessings.

Door paper, among the types of paper-cut paper, apart from windows, doors are the most produced and used.

Door paper is a set of paper cuts affixed to the beams of doors and windows during the holidays.

Also known as hanging money, wedding paper, hanging money, red paper, etc., it evolved from the custom of pruning spring flags in the Tang Dynasty. Its shape is like a national flag, with a large sky and a wide outer edge.

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It is mostly carved in red paper, but also in other colors or colors.

Paper-cutting is closely related to the Spring Festival.

Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in a poem: "Engraving in gold is the best way to inherit the Beijing style, and engraving in green is the style of gold." Both "Sutras" and "Gold Style" in the poem point out that this style is clear

After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the customs of Jin people were changed. The time for opening windows to welcome spring was changed from the beginning of spring to the Spring Festival. People used paper-cutting to express their joy in celebrating spring.

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, every household has to put up paper-cutting during the New Year, which makes it easy for us to understand the paper-cutting culture, which has been passed down to this day.