Was the colorful Haniqa created by Su Mei?

No, Su Mei is the inheritor of the colorful Haniqa, it is impossible to prove who created it.

Su Mei, female, born in October 1967, Daur ethnicity, as the first intangible cultural heritage inheritors of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Su Mei's name is inextricably linked to "Hanika". She is a household name in Moqi Daur paper-cutting master. Daur folk paper cutting has a long history.

Over the years, she went deep into the old Daur region, learning from the old artists, collecting, organizing national and folk cultural heritage. Especially in the Daur traditional paper-cutting, Haniqa paper doll production and national costume research and creation has devoted a lot of effort.

Sumei's "Haniqa" paper-cutting has developed greatly on the basis of inheriting the tradition. Her paper-cutting works are mostly based on the life of the Daur ethnic group, farming, hunting, fishing, picking artemisia buds, playing field hockey, swinging in her works are vividly expressed.

Her paper-cutting technique is skillful, the line is as thin as a hair, the point is as small as the tip of a needle, a knife, a line is harmonious and exquisite. From her hands, she cuts out a variety of animals in a thousand different shapes, full of rich humanistic flavor and ethnic flavor.

Daur Hanika introduction

Daur Hanika, is a unique Daur folk paper doll craft, but also the Daur little girl's favorite toys in Daur language, meaning "eye", is the meaning of the eye in the small human form. Hanika generally 10 to 15 centimeters high, cut out the shape with paper-cutting, pasted into human form, different sizes, small and delicate. It consists of a combination of a paper cutout of the figure's head shape and a conical human body that can stand and is a few centimeters to more than 20 centimeters tall.

"Haniqa" is mostly played by little girls. Daur girls each have ten to dozens of "Haniqa". Playing "Haniqa" can be played alone, but there are several people to play together is more interesting. They set up their own Haniqas on the bed, and each girl sets up several Haniqas to form a family. They use cardboard boxes or origami to make houses and courtyards.