Why do you want to cut the windowpane at the Spring Festival, what is the meaning of it?

The meaning is to decorate the environment, rendering the atmosphere, and to send the people's desire to welcome the old and the new, and to receive blessings and good fortune. Window decorations have beautiful symbols, as well as the usual red color, all in line with the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, is the people's favorite folk art.

Window decorations, closely related to the Spring Festival, have been a way of welcoming the Spring Festival since ancient times. In order to welcome the Spring Festival, people in many parts of China, especially in the north, like to put all kinds of window decorations on their windows.

Window flowers are Chinese folk paper-cut works of art with various colors and patterns, which have a history of thousands of years. In the Northwest, a complete paper cutout is divided into four large pieces using the character for "ten". In order not to affect the interior lighting, the window flower is mostly cut in the sun, so that there is more hollow area. Between the outer outline of the window and the window frame requires a comfortable, balanced composition pattern.

Window flowers, and the spring has a close relationship with the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin once wrote in a poem: "openwork for the win Jing custom, cut green for the people up Jin wind". After the Song and Yuan, cut and paste window flowers to welcome the spring time will be changed from spring to the Spring Festival, people use paper-cutting to express their joy to celebrate the spring on earth.

Window flowers have quite a lot of content to show the life of farmers, such as farming, weaving, shepherding, raising chickens and so on. In addition to this, there are myths and legends, opera stories and other subjects. In addition, birds, flowers, insects and fish and zodiac images are also very common. Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration will be decorated with festive red hot rich and joyful.

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In the past, no matter what the north and south, the Spring Festival, all stickers. In the south, only when you get married, the Spring Festival is generally not posted. In order to create a festive atmosphere, the majority of rural areas before the Spring Festival in the window posted on the paper cuttings. Window pattern, generally more free, in addition to sticking in the corners of the "corner flower" and folded and cut the "group of flowers", the outline are no restrictions.

Window is the most widely distributed, the largest number of Chinese folk paper cutting, the most popular varieties. Divided into "north and south style", the south to "exquisite" for the beauty, characterized by exquisite and transparent; the north to simple and vivid for the beauty, characterized by naive and thick. Other paper-cutting varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window flowers.

Recently, the modern window part-time has gradually formed an independent art category, but because they were originally from the Chinese folk festivals or folk activities in the cut and paste paintings, and more pasted on the white paper of the rural windows and is called "window flowers".

Window flowers is a wonderful title that can cause a lot of lingering and emotions for everyone. On the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, commonly known as the Spring Festival, window decoration becomes an important part of the Chinese Spring Festival celebrations.

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