Introduction to the art of Chinese color paper-cutting

There are many ways to express paper cutting, focusing on monochrome and color two kinds

Monochrome paper cutting and divided into:

1. Yang carving paper cutting, usually using red paper and black paper or other colors of the material cut out of the monochrome paper-cutting works. Yang carved paper cutting is characterized by the retention of the original outline line, cut off the outline line outside the blank part. Each of its lines is interconnected, pulling a hair will move the whole body.

2. Yin carved paper-cutting, Yin carved paper-cutting is characterized by the opposite of Yang carved paper-cutting, that is, carved away from the outline of the original, retaining the outline of the part outside the line. Therefore, the characteristics of the negative paper cutting is that its lines are not necessarily interconnected, and the overall work is block.

Paper cutting, also known as color paper cutting. It is a collage of several pieces of colored paper cut into pieces; or cut into white paper and then dyed and filled with various colors; or cut into the main version, lined with white paper and then dyed and filled with various colors. Subdivision can be:

(1) lining color class, the first monochrome paper-cutting method cut into a picture, and then lined with colored paper

(2) sets of color class, the monochrome paper-cutting method to cut into the main version of the main version and the image of the second version, and then cut another color paper mounted on the main part of the need to change tadpole? The main page will be mounted on the desired part of the main page to change the color. The drought drought? Sword? What's the best way to do this? What is the most important thing you can do? Determining the quality of your work? What are the reasons for this? What's the best way to get the most out of your life? Eulogy? What's the best way to do it? What is the name of your school? Posthumous? The following is a list of the most common types of eulogies.

(3) color class, that is, respectively, with the color paper cut into various parts of the image, and then according to the pattern mounted on the liner; or see the overlap of the color paper nailed together, and then according to the manuscript cut into, and then kissed spelled on the liner.

(4) dyeing class, that is, easy to impregnate white paper or light-colored paper cut into various images, and then dyed into the desired color one by one; or dye the paper first, and then cut into the image.

Shanxi paper-cutting has been widely circulated in Shanxi for more than 1,000 years of traditional folk crafts, mainly divided into two production methods of cutting and knife cutting. It is represented by the colorful paper-cutting of Guangling in the north and the monochrome paper-cutting of Fushan in the south. Most of the local scenery, folklore, historical stories and symbolize the people's happiness, wealth and good luck and longevity as the content of paper-cutting, with a strong local flavor.