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Paper-cutting course on the Spring Festival

Paper-cutting courses about the Spring Festival are as follows:

Among the folk customs and traditions in China, paper-cutting is the most familiar one. Every happy event or Chinese New Year holiday, many people will put beautiful paper-cuts on the windows. Paper-cutting is an art and a culture, which is worth passing on to the next generation.

1. Prepare red paper and scissors. It is recommended not to use cardboard. Although it is three-dimensional, it is not convenient to cut, and then folded and made as shown in the black line below.

2. Step 2: Fold the crease into a triangle as shown in the figure according to the trace.

3. Step 3: Fold the colored paper folded into a triangle in the previous step in half again to get a slightly smaller triangle, with the sealed side facing left, which is consistent with the picture below, and then draw a character shape on it with a pencil, and gradually draw a half spring character.

4. Step 4: Note that each line should be drawn to the top, and there is no need to seal the edges.

5. Step 5: Cut off the redundant parts according to the drawn pattern.

6. Step 6: Cut and unfold to get a three-dimensional paper-cut for the Spring Festival! If it is broken or shapeless after unfolding, it must be a mistake!

Paper-cut flowers as a format of paper-cut. It has a circular pattern, and it is evenly distributed all around. This decorative format can especially show its superiority in paper-cutting, because paper can be folded, for example, twice, three times and four times diagonally, so that flowers with even sides can be cut out.