How to cut window grilles for happy characters?

Material preparation: red square paper or rectangular paper, scissors and pencils.

1, take out a piece of red paper, flatten it, and fold it in half according to the center line.

2. In fact, red paper, whether square or rectangular at first, will become rectangular after being folded once.

3. Fold the rectangular red paper that has been folded once again according to the center line, and the red paper becomes a slender rectangle with four folds.

4. Sketch the style of happy characters with a pencil on thin rectangular red paper. If new people draw the style of ordinary Chinese characters as accurately as they do, they can find a finished product, fold it four times in advance, and then press it on red paper to copy its outline.

5. according to the outline, cut off all the redundant parts on the red paper.

6. Unfold the red paper so that the shape of an ordinary Chinese character is completed.

Window grilles:

Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.

Window grilles have a history of thousands of years, and gradually spread and shaped during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. The traditional paper-cut handicraft art in China is more widely used, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns in China. , are decorated with paper-cut and then processed.

What's more, people in China, China often use paper-cutting as decoration to beautify their home environment. For example, door battlements, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms.