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Simple paper-cut handmade

Simple hand-cut paper is introduced as follows:

1, first take a square piece of paper, and you can buy ready-made small square origami in the market;

2. Fold in half along the dotted line in the middle, so that the two sides of the fold completely overlap;

3. Draw a rabbit pattern on one side of the paper with an erasable pencil;

4. Then use scissors to cut off the redundant parts along the drawn lines, and then use an eraser to erase the scratches left by the pencil on the paper;

Finally, draw the rabbit's mouth and eyes, and a simple paper-cut rabbit is successfully completed.

paper cutting

It is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.

Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public. Paper-cut art heritage has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list of China and the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

Paper-cut art has never been interrupted in the history of China since its birth. It is rich in various folk activities, and it is one of the richest art forms in China folk history and culture.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining all kinds of objects and images to produce ideal and beautiful effects. No matter whether one or more image combinations are used, they are modeled by "image implication" and "meaning conformation", rather than by objective natural forms. At the same time, they are also good at using metaphor and combining the agreed images to create various mascots to express their psychology.