Peony Paper Cutting

Peony paper-cutting tutorial is as follows:

1, take a square piece of colored paper and fold it along the middle line.

2, on the folded colored paper, draw the pattern of rooster and peony, the rooster is mostly decorated with serrated and crescent patterns, and the petals of the peony flowers are also expressed with serrated patterns. When you draw symmetrical patterns, you usually start from the center and draw the peony and rooster in turn.

3, along the drawn pattern cut and unfold, the pattern is two large roosters surrounded by a peony flower, this is what we want to share the rich and powerful. This is what we are going to share. It can bring you wealth and good luck.

This pattern is quite complicated, and those who can't draw are advised to just print the pattern directly. Don't be afraid of trouble, often the more complex the pattern cut out of the work is also the more beautiful.

Paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.

The visual image and modeling format of its heritage contains rich cultural and historical information and expresses the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public. The heritage of paper-cutting art has been selected to China's national intangible cultural heritage list and the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Tang Dynasty was a period of great development for paper-cutting, and Du Fu's poem "Peng Nga Xing" contains the sentence "Warm soup washes my feet, and paper-cutting beckons my soul", so the custom of paper-cutting to beckon the soul had already spread to the folk at that time. Now hidden in the British Museum of the Tang Dynasty paper cuts can be seen at that time the level of handmade paper cutting art has been extremely high, the picture composition is complete, expressing a kind of heaven and earth ideal realm.

Tang dynasty popular jie, its openwork woodblock pattern with paper-cutting characteristics, such as now hidden in Japan's Masakura Yard of the "sheep", its sheep pattern is typical of paper-cutting handmade art expression. Tang dynasty folk also appeared in the form of paper cuts using the production of leakage printing plate, people with thick paper carved into a flower plate, the dye will leakage printing to the cloth, forming a beautiful pattern.

In addition, in the Dunhuang Mogao Caves have been unearthed in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties paper cuts, such as "Double Deer Pagoda", "group of pagodas and deer," "pagoda" and so on belongs to the "merit flower paper" category, mainly used to worship the Buddha, decorating the temple, the dojo. Its picture composition is complex, with specific content, outside there is a "standing statue of the bodhisattva", "holding a streamer standing statue of the bodhisattva" and other ink painting openwork paper cutting, is a combination of paper cutting and painting works.