Lantern Festival Paper Cutting

Lunar New Year's Eve Paper Cutting is a traditional folk art in Lingbao City.

In the local Lingbao area, during the Lantern Festival, people would use paper cutting to decorate colored lanterns, which is called "colored lantern paper cutting". To the Han, Tang Dynasty, folk women began to use gold and silver foil or colored paper cut into a variety of flowers and plants, used to beautify and decorate life.

Lunar New Year's Eve, people want to use paper cutouts to decorate the lanterns, especially the lanterns, in the upper and lower lamp and the main part should be decorated with carefully carved paper cutouts, the middle of the fire umbrella should be posted on the cutouts called "walking horse manzi". Mythological, theatrical figures of horses and knives mainly, a strong sense of movement.

Cultural characteristics:

Lingbao paper-cutting is divided into two kinds of monochrome and dyeing, the production of shear-based, there are also carved paper. In the process of long-term development, Lingbao paper-cutting has naturally formed a rough, simple, honest and thick artistic characteristics. Window decoration is the main form of expression of Lingbao paper-cutting, and the subject matter is mainly birds, flowers, grasses and insects, people, etc. The style is simple and simple, beautiful and generous.

The ceiling flowers, corner flowers, wall flowers, kang screen flowers, double happiness characters and lamp flowers, pot flowers, pot flowers, etc. are also common forms of expression of paper-cutting in Lingbao, these works are often closely linked with folk wedding customs, and are mostly used to decorate the wedding room to convey the good wishes for a happy marriage and many children.