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A series of cutting methods for paper-cut rabbits

Paper-cut rabbits can be cut as follows:

1. First, take a square piece of paper. You can buy ready-made small square origami in the market.

2. Fold in half from outside to inside along the dotted line in the middle, so that both sides of the crease completely overlap.

Draw a beautiful picture of your favorite rabbit on one side of a piece of white paper with an erasable pencil.

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

5. Finally, draw the rabbit's mouth and eyes. You can also draw your mouth and eyes with your favorite colors, simple paper-cut rabbits.

Success is achievable.

The development history of paper-cutting;

Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem Peng ADB, there is a saying that "warm soup is enough for me and paper is enough for my soul", and the custom of evoking souls by paper-cutting has been circulated 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 addition, paper-cuts from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, such as Twin Deer Pagoda, Pagoda and Deer Pagoda, were unearthed in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. , which belongs to the category of "merit paper", is mainly used to worship Buddha statues and decorate temples and Dojo. Its picture composition is complex and its content is specific, and there are ink paintings such as "Bodhisattva" and "Embracing Bodhisattva", which are works of paper-cutting and painting.