Why is paper-cut culture difficult to inherit?

There is a paper-cutting association in Shaanxi village, and now there are more than 200 members alone, but most of them are from other places. "Paper-cut culture is difficult to pass down in the village. There are many foreigners in the association, and even foreigners have learned a lot. " Ren Zhiyan said that most people who study only come for interest. "There are very few people who can help promote the paper-cut culture, and even fewer people really pass it on." In the contemporary era when fast food culture prevails, the art of paper-cutting has changed from an ordinary traditional culture to the "Chun Xue" that only a few people pay attention to and love.

In the pit yard, the team members found many large-scale paper-cut works such as Preface to Lanting Collection and Eight Horses Map, but after interviews, they learned that these works will take at least three years to complete. "Now we still use the old methods handed down from our ancestors. It is impossible to complete a truly excellent work in a few years, so we won't make a lot of money. " Ren Zhiyan also mentioned that many merchants use machine paper-cutting instead of manual paper-cutting, which saves time and effort, because laymen have no difference between machine paper-cutting and manual paper-cutting, which also violates the traditional manual paper-cutting art.

When asked about the inheritance of Shaanxi paper-cutting, Ren Zhiyan was a little depressed. "There is no money. It is so easy to make money now, and young people will not rely entirely on it to eat. " The team learned that the economic profit of the paper-cut industry is not optimistic, and the paper-cut art needs years of hard practice to achieve something. For many reasons, fewer and fewer young people are willing to devote themselves to the art of paper-cutting. How to pass this art on to future generations is a thorny issue.