The history and origin of paper-cutting the history and origin of paper-cutting development history

1, I believe we all know that our country is an ancient civilization, in the folk many traditional arts have also retained some, such as paper cutting, Chinese painting, shadow and so on. And when it comes to the art of paper-cutting, I believe we are all very curious about when it appeared, so here we look at the development of paper-cutting and historical sources.

2, in fact, in the period of the North and South Dynasties has appeared this one thing, in the Western Han Dynasty, before the invention of paper, there is no paper-cutting, but at that time, mankind has learned to use leaves or leather, as well as in the silk above, carved and cut into patterns, so this is the prototype of the paper-cutting, and to the period of the Tang Dynasty, the paper-cutting began to be in the development of the state of the poems of Du Fu, which has already appeared in the poems of Du Fu this folk art of paper-cutting.

3. Today, the British Museum in the United Kingdom has preserved the paper-cutting of the Tang Dynasty, and it can be seen that during the Tang Dynasty, the level of paper-cutting art in China has reached its peak, both in terms of images and shapes, are designed to be more complete. And in the Song Dynasty period, the paper industry began to gradually mature, there were more types of paper, but also to the popularization of paper-cutting as an artistic activity has brought enough conditions.

4, window is in the Song Dynasty period, and the Song Dynasty period of folk paper cutting began to gradually expand the scope of application, like a lot of ceramics in Jiangxi, is also based on paper cutting made of ceramics appearance of the pattern, so that the ceramic pattern looks more exquisite.

5, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art of paper-cutting is at its peak, when the use of folk paper-cutting art than before a wider range, whether it is a lantern above the pattern or fan above the pattern will be used on the paper-cutting made of decorative items, folk are also home will be pasted on the paper-cutting.