The Cultural Value of Paper Cutting

Paper-cutting is a treasure of traditional culture

Chinese folk paper-cutting contains a wealth of Chinese history and culture, folk culture and regional culture, which objectively reflects the colorful and varied characteristics of Chinese culture, embodies the folk paper-cutting creators of the beauty of the art of imagination and the spirit of creativity, the cultural value of the paper-cutting is far more than the paper-cutting itself.

The ancient Chinese nation has created a splendid and glorious national culture in the long process of history, in which the folk paper-cutting art is an extremely important part of this treasure trove, which has been rooted in the grass-roots level, rooted in the life, and has a great breadth and popularity. In a broad sense, the connotation of folk paper-cutting art has already exceeded the scope of fine art in the general sense. Paper-cutting art by the specific function, form, nature of the formation of varieties, categories and specifications, are far beyond the scope of literati art and court art, very real-life content and rich and colorful regional and ethnic folk styles, presenting a very different style, colorful aesthetic vision. Folk culture is the deepest source and foundation of the profound Chinese cultural tradition, and paper-cutting art is a rare flower in folk culture, which enriches the traditional culture and constantly nourishes it in the process of its reproduction, so that the most grass-roots, realistic, and lifelike fresh blood is constantly transported to the deep-rooted tree of Chinese culture, and, at the same time, the folk art of paper-cutting is constantly absorbing nutrients from the mainstream culture of Chinese tradition. At the same time, the art of folk paper-cutting is also absorbing nutrients and essence from the traditional mainstream culture of China, and enriching its own artistic connotation and forms of expression.

Paper-cutting, as a kind of folk art with a long history, is widely spread in most parts of China. People create them according to their own living customs and aesthetic views, and incorporate their own beliefs and emotions to express their pursuit and yearning for life.

People express their desire and pursuit of a happy life through the art form of paper-cutting, which is gradually formed on people's long-term social practice and ****same psychological needs, and it is a process of creative thinking and practice based on the perception and understanding of the deeper meanings of human visual, psychological, and behavioral activities, etc., and it is also a kind of contact information, communication of emotions and consciousness of the cultural It is also a cultural medium for communicating information, emotions and consciousness.

The philosophical and cultural connotations of folk paper-cutting

As a form of art, in its early generation and application, folk paper-cutting carries the visions of countless people from the lower class, who use figurative or imaginative forms of expression to express their beautiful visions on paper-cutting. Using the existing images in nature to express their wishes and visions, the authors incorporate these objects of expression into the structure of their works only as a specific conceptual meaning of the symbols of the creative subject's thoughts and feelings projected into them to resort to the form of expression. When they use these sensual images, they have to infuse their own understanding of the subject and the feelings of reality into them, pursuing a kind of hazy natural objects and people combined with the flavor, full of the philosophical meaning of the origin of the unity of the object.

Paper-cutting art in the subject matter, patterns, colors become a substitute for specific connotations and symbolic meaning of the "symbol" in the folk most common. For example: in the paper-cutting, wedding customs inside the symbol of progeny reproduction of future generations of yin and yang intersection of "yin and yang fish", "fish biting lotus", symbolizing the happiness of "Fu (bat) in front of you", etc., is with the These symbols are used to explain and express one's own wishes by means of related objects in the natural world. They are the people's ideals and aspirations for life, for profit, for yearning, for pursuing, and for celebrating a better life, and they are a true portrayal of good fortune, happiness and contentment. They reflect people's simple, sincere and frank psychology with symbolic symbols of objects in nature. The works are both commonplace and contain some kind of symbolism, which is the origin of people's initial creative impulse, and is the embodiment of a kind of Chinese original philosophical and cultural outlook of "the unity of things and me". In folk paper-cutting, artistic creation is not limited by a specific visual space and a specific time, which is the concept of the ultra-temporal modeling of paper-cutting art. They can replace inanimate decorations such as lines, black and white, light and dark changes with animate flowers, animals and natural objects; they can also use objects in different time states for stitching to create works of art with ultra-time. They express a cosmic world that is beyond time and space, and they can decorate everything in heaven and earth as they wish, emphasizing its endless vitality.

As a cultural phenomenon of paper-cutting art, precipitated by the ancestors of the hazy, simple cultural connotations, in recent years, the folk paper-cutting as a cultural phenomenon has been the society for deeper artistic excavation, modern art creation atmosphere added from the folk fresh, simple, rude fresh breath, but also makes the modern cultural concepts tend to diversify the development. Chinese folk paper-cutting art as a combination of folklore and fine arts culture, which contains the cultural value of human society and civilization in the high development of today's increasingly special and attention.