Chinese Paper Cutting Art Small Paper Cutting Big Art

China is an ancient and far-reaching country with a culture that has been passed down and accumulated over thousands of years, and many things are unique. Just like Chinese paper-cutting, which is an important part of the intangible culture of mankind and the Chinese nation. Paper-cutting is created by the vast number of laboring people in China to satisfy their spiritual life during their farming leisure time. Through the generations of the Chinese people's inheritance and development, it became those beautiful paper cuttings we see today.

Small paper-cutting, big art

Paper-cutting is the reproduction of people's spiritual life and the pursuit of endless spiritual paradise, from which we can see the aesthetic connotation of a nation's national spirit. It is not too much to say that paper-cutting is a Chinese invention, before the invention of paper, people use some sheet material to cut out a variety of patterns, slowly with the invention of paper people began to use paper to cut out a variety of patterns with paper, which is because of the lightness of paper and the low cost of easy to obtain, but also because of this, a lot of China's paper-cutting can not be preserved in its entirety.

Paper-cutting in our daily life is also very common, childhood, we may have cut those small animals and small flowers, in the north, can be seen in the window and wall flowers. Paper cutting is not difficult for many people, which is one of the reasons it can be passed down, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, we can see a lot of young girls can also cut out a lot of good-looking window and wall flowers. In ancient times, we do not have our TV, computer, ipad people's own internal expression of emotion is to rely on this paper cutting to portray out.

Characteristics of paper-cutting style

Paper-cutting can be divided into two types according to its style, folk paper-cutting and modern paper-cutting. Folk paper-cutting is a way for the lower class of society to express their desire and pursuit of a better life through paper-cutting. And modern paper-cutting to solid economic basis for change, the form is different. These two are not comparable, because they have to express the content of the meaning of the representation is not the same, can only say that these two kinds of paper cutting in our traditional Chinese culture have an important position.

History of paper-cutting

The earliest paper-cutting should have originated in the North and South Dynasties, in the development of thousands of years, folk paper-cutting has been using scissors as an ancient tool, while modern paper-cutting is a blend of cutting, tearing, carving, burning, etc., through a variety of techniques to carve the connotations of the modern paper-cutting, so that it added a lot of artistic charm. The modern paper-cutting is a combination of cutting, tearing, carving and burning. Because the region is different, so many places of paper cutting is also different, Shaanxi's simple and pure, Hebei and Shanxi's beautiful and colorful, Guangdong Foshan's method of rich, decorative, Shandong's delicate and exquisite, meticulous. Although the expression and techniques are not the same, but the pattern format of the paper-cutting are roughly the same.

In fact, paper-cutting as China's intangible cultural heritage, we should go to protect, although he will not be like those of the guzheng or Xiao with the passage of time, slowly faded out of people's sight, but after all, compared with the previous, will be paper-cutting is not many people.