Paper cutting as a folk art, it has a variety of forms, so what exactly are the basic forms it has?

Yong paper includes window flowers, thresholds, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, lanterns, motifs, flowers, spring flowers, and mourning pants. Paper cutting is also a popular art, and its production and circulation are closely related to seasonal customs in the countryside. For example, window bars, thresholds and lanterns would be added to the Spring Festival or Lantern Festival.

In the northern countryside, the New Year ends with windows re-covered with white window paper topped with red and green window bars, doors and windows, stickers for the Lantern Festival and lanterns that thicken for the Lantern Festival. When we got married, posted indoors, furniture and utensils when is the place of the new house.

Similarly, birthday flowers and funerals are published on birthdays and funerals, and after fixing the room, flowers are placed on walls and ceilings, in short, they are mainly used to decorate the environment, to improve the festive atmosphere and stick them to the terrace, room or tableware. The function of the pattern is different from the previous categories, it is used as a model for inherited graves and patterns, the patterns include clothes, shoes, hats, pockets, pillows, mosquito nets, curtains, etc., which are based on the patterns on which the drawings are embroidered.

Each time a graphic is cut, it is cooked thickly on another piece of paper, which is placed on a lighted candle, smoked, and roasted to black, removing the pattern of the paper cutting, then left black with smoke and blank patterns, the patterned primitive paper cutouts can be used as embroidery for clothing. Rural women rely on this method of passing down the patterns preserved from previous generations from generation to generation, auspicious patterns symbolizing the auspicious demon, dolls, pumpkins, lotus flowers and many other symbols of children, and more blessings, birds and cows, melons and fruits are familiar to the farmers, but also the main content of the Paper-cutting, as a kind of folk art, has a very strong regional nature.

Nanjing paper-cutting is thick and smart, Yixing paper-cutting is beautiful and neat, Nantong paper-cutting is beautiful and delicate, Guangdong Foshan paper-cutting is rich in color, varied in method, and strong in decorative power, Shandong Gaomi paper-cutting is delicate and meticulous.