The history of paper cutting

Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, window cutting or painting cutting.

The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting.

Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually.

Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.

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brief introduction

history

history

Creative writing method

Modeling method

Tool description

Paper cutting sculpture

Tool flow

Modern paper cutting

Frame installation in installation form

Paperboard installation

Reel installation

Glue pressing and installation

symbolic meaning

Mianyang Paper-cut in Nanpai, Hubei Province

Guangdong Foshan paper-cut

Fujian folk paper-cutting

Jiangzhepai Jiangsu Yangzhou Paper-cut

Zhejiang folk paper-cutting

The Northern School of Shanxi Paper-cutting

Guangling paper-cut

Jincheng paper-cutting

Paper-cutting in Yuxian County, Hebei Province

Shaanxi folk paper-cutting

Shandong folk paper-cutting

Chaoyang paper-cut

Hebei Fucheng paper-cut

Councillor Ku Lan Shu

Zhu huamei

Cao dianxiang

Wang Laoshang

CoCo Lee

Basic information

brief Introduction of the content

brief introduction

history

history

Creative writing method

Modeling method

Tool description

Paper cutting sculpture

Tool flow

Modern paper cutting

Frame installation in installation form

Paperboard installation

Reel installation

Glue pressing and installation

symbolic meaning

South school

Paper-cut in Mianyang, Hubei, paper-cut in Foshan, Guangdong and paper-cut in Fujian.

Jiangsu Yangzhou Paper-cut Zhejiang Folk Paper-cut Northern School

Shanxi paper-cut Guangling paper-cut Jincheng paper-cut Hebei Yuxian paper-cut Shaanxi folk paper-cut Shandong folk paper-cut Chaoyang paper-cut Hebei Fucheng paper-cut representative

Ku Lan Shu, Zhu Huamei, Cao Dianxiang, Wang Laoshang, CoCo Lee, basic situation, content introduction, introduction in this paragraph.

On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

On June 5, 2007, Zhou Zhaoming, a disciple of Wang Laoshang in Yuxian County, Hebei Province, was recognized as the representative inheritor of this cultural heritage project by the Ministry of Culture and included in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.

On June 8, 2007, Shanghai Li paper-cut.

? Master Studio was awarded the first Cultural Heritage Day Award by the Ministry of Culture.

On September 6th, 2008, Li Xiang Style Paper-cut Studio was formally established. On the basis of inheriting the traditional Shandong folk paper-cutting, the works were kneaded into exquisite and graceful southern paper-cutting, and the portrait paper-cutting was innovated and practiced.

On September 30, 2009, Chinese paper-cutting was approved by UNESCO Inter-Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and included in the fourth batch of "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".

20 10 is the year of the tiger. A single tiger paper-cut created by Mr. Zhu Weizhen, president of Zhejiang Tonglu Paper-cut Association, is 10 meter wide and 7 meters high.

This work was certified on the spot and selected as the largest single tiger paper-cut in world record association, China, creating another world-class paper-cut art.

It adds auspiciousness and joy to the arrival of the Year of the Tiger.

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China folk paper-cut handicraft art has its own formation and development process. China's paper was invented in the Western Han Dynasty (6th century BC). At that time, people used very thin materials to make handicrafts by hollowing out and carving, but it was popular long before paper appeared, that is, patterns were cut on gold foil, leather, silk and even leaves by carving, carving, picking, carving and cutting.

According to Records of the Historian Jiantong Di Feng, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a king claimed the title of king, and cut a plane tree leaf into a "reed" and gave it to his younger brother, who was named Hou in the Tang Dynasty.

During the Warring States period, leather carvings (one of the cultural relics unearthed from Chu Tomb No.1 in Jiangling, Hubei Province) and silver foil carvings (one of the cultural relics unearthed from the Warring States site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province) were all demolished together with paper-cutting, and their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.

China's earliest paper-cut works were found in 1967, the largest paper-cut tiger in China archaeology.

Two paper-cuts with flowers were found in the tombs of the Northern Dynasties in Astana near Gaochang Site in Turpan Basin, Xinjiang. They are made of hemp paper, and they are all folded sacrificial paper-cuts. Their discovery provides physical evidence for the formation of Chinese paper-cutting.

The history of paper-cutting handicraft art, that is, paper-cutting in the true sense, should begin with the appearance of paper.

The invention of paper in Han Dynasty promoted the appearance, development and popularization of paper-cutting.

Paper is a moldy material. In the southeast of our country, the climate is humid, and the rainy days in May and June every year, paper products will rot over time. Folk paper-cutting is a popular thing. People don't keep it as a treasure, and they can cut it if it is broken.

In the northwest of China, the weather is dry, the climate is dry, and the paper is not easy to get moldy, which may also be one of the important reasons for the discovery of paper-cutting in the Northern Dynasties in Turpan, Xinjiang.

Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem, there is a saying that "warm water trapped my feet, and paper-cutting called back my soul", and the custom of paper-cutting called back my soul had spread among the people at that time.

The paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty, which is now in the British Museum, shows that the paper-cut at that time had a high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, expressing an ideal realm between heaven and earth.

Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the carved patterns of flowers and trees have the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the pattern of "Duiyang" in Masakura Hospital in Japan is a typical artistic expression of hand cutting.

In the Tang dynasty, there was also block printing made of paper-cutting. People carved it into wax paper with thick paper, and then printed the dye on the cloth to form beautiful patterns.

In Song Dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting.

For example, it can be used as "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window grilles" pasted on windows, or as decorations for lanterns and teacups.

The application scope of folk paper-cutting in Song Dynasty gradually expanded. Jiangxi Jizhou Kiln uses paper-cut as the pattern of ceramics, and makes the ceramics more exquisite by glazing and firing. Folk also use paper-cutting to carve figures in shadow play with the skins of animals such as donkeys, cows, horses and sheep. The engraved version made by the blue printed cloth technology is carved into patterns with oil cardboard, and the scratched patterns are made by paper-cutting technology, which is divided into yin and yang engraving. Long lines should be cut off to distinguish facts from truth.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak.

Folk paper-cut handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns, all of which are reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration.

What's more, Chinese people often use paper-cutting as decoration to beautify the home environment, such as door battlements, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers, which are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms.

In addition to the paper-binding pattern craftsmen who appeared after the Southern Song Dynasty, the most basic team of folk paper-cutting handicrafts in China is rural women.

Female red is an important symbol of the perfection of traditional women in China. As a compulsory skill of needlework, paper-cutting has become a skill that girls have to learn since childhood.

They want to learn paper-cut patterns from their predecessors or sisters, cut out new patterns through cutting, re-cutting, painting and cutting, and describe the natural scenery they are familiar with and love, the scenery of fish, insects, birds, beasts, flowers, trees, pavilions and bridges, and finally reach the realm of their will.

China folk paper-cut handicraft art, like an ivy, is ancient and evergreen, and its unique popularity, practicality and aesthetics have become a symbolic meaning that meets people's psychological needs.

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As early as the Han and Tang dynasties, folk women cut gold and silver foil and colored silk into a winning style and pasted flowers and birds on their temples as decorations.

Then it gradually developed. In festivals, colored paper is cut into flowers, animals or story characters and pasted on windows (called "window grilles") and lintels (called "door stickers") as decoration, as well as as as gift decoration or embroidery patterns.

The art of paper-cutting has a long history, and it is also widely recorded in ancient poetry and classics: 1. In the poems left by Cui Daorong in the Tang Dynasty, there is such a sentence: "If you want to cut Yichun characters, Lengquan people will cut scissors." The "Yichun Post" mentioned here is also commonly known as paper-cutting.

2. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin wrote the poem Manyue: "Carve gold to capture customs, cut the ribbon to promote the people".

Ribbon-cutting is also paper-cutting.

3. The Tang Dynasty's Youyang Miscellaneous Notes said: "On the day of beginning of spring, the home of literati, paper-cutting is a kind of Xiaoping, or hanging on the head of a beauty, or cutting it into a spring butterfly, which wins the drama with spring.

"4. Zhi Ya's Miscellaneous Notes on Tang Poetry, a careful book in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote:" Therefore, everyone has a problem, and those who cut various colors and patterns are extremely exquisite.

And those who are more ambitious in the Central Plains will be professional every time they cut their calligraphy.

Later, some teenagers were able to cut words and flowers on their sleeves very accurately.

"Kaifeng" is the government, and "paper-cutting" naturally refers to "paper-cutting".

5. Zhiyun, Jiande County, Guangzhou: "Lin Wenhui, the word outline is neat, the paper-cut is the word, and the tail is not bad. The room is decorated into a shaft, and it is easy to pay for self-sufficiency, which is called cutting."

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