How to teach and learn paper cutting? Children's paper-cutting tradition is more innovative.

More than 200 representatives from all over the country engaged in paper-cutting education came to Yufeng Central Primary School in Yangzhong City to observe the combination of intangible cultural heritage protection and art education to build a paper-cutting teaching site with school-running characteristics. Many paper-cutting artists were invited to interact with the students in the school. Yufeng Central Primary School is a rural primary school located in the suburbs. Since 2005, the school has brought paper-cutting with simple tools, convenient materials and easy popularization into students' classrooms and developed it into a school-based curriculum. How to teach and learn paper cutting? Is there a paper-cutting language suitable for children? Should children's paper-cutting conform to traditional standards? Paper-cutting artists and non-genetic inheritors in different places have different views on children's "innovative" paper-cutting. Han Yueqin is a representative inheritor of Zhuanghe Paper-cut, a national intangible cultural heritage project. She said that for a long time, paper-cutting was passed from mother to daughter and from mother to daughter. But today, China's cultural ecology has changed, and the impact of modern culture has made paper-cutting and teenagers drift away. Because of this, it is imperative to introduce cultural heritage such as paper-cutting into school art classes and educate students on cultural inheritance and heritage protection. Chen Jing, deputy director of the Institute of Culture and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University, believes that to scientifically carry out children's paper-cutting education, we must respect children's unique unconscious aesthetic feelings according to their independent psychological characteristics, care for children's enthusiasm for freely expressing their thoughts, feelings and wishes, and at the same time, assist children's main behavior according to their different ages and personalities, and guide them to learn the knowledge and techniques of traditional folk paper-cutting. Chen actually opposes the teacher copying or copying the patterns of adult paper-cut or even the patterns of painting and engraving paper to students, so that students can cut and engrave as usual, pursue fineness and shape, and make students become tools for blind imitation.