History of Ansai Paper Cutting

Since the 1980s, Ansai paper-cutting has begun to develop gradually from the traditional use into an independent folk art, by the people at home and abroad, known as "Qunfang mother", "cultural relics on the ground" and "cultural living fossil" called. The "cultural living fossil" is called.

Through the organization and production of a large number of folk paper-cutting, there are more than 1,000 by the National Art Museum of China, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Touyang Academy of Fine Arts and other museums collection, "Yan'an people's remembrance of the" large-scale modern paper-cutting, by the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall permanent collection. Many foreigners have to buy the collection, known as the "vitality of the Shaanxi Plateau mountain chrysanthemum". 1993, Ansai County was named by the Ministry of Culture as "China's folk art paper-cutting hometown".

In the winter of 1985, Cao Dianxiang, Bai Fenglan Hu Fenglian, Gao Jin Ai was invited to the Central Academy of Fine Arts teaching performances, in 1982, the France-China Friendship Association invited Li Xiufang to visit France. Her performance at the International Exposition in Rennes, France, surprised the French mayor, who took out her scissors and watched them over and over again to see if they were loaded with electronic computers. People lined up to buy her work.

In 1995, Cao Dianxiang was honored by the Ministry of Culture as a master of folk art. after the 1990s, the subject matter of Ansai's paper-cutting also developed significantly. It began to move from the traditional to the modern, especially the paper-cutting and other artworks based on the holy places of the revolution and leading figures, which added new ornamental contents to the tourism industry in Yan'an.