Famous Paper Cutting Works of Folk Art

The most famous paper-cutting works in China include "Magpie Dengzhi", "Four Seasons Flowers", "Tiger", "Dragon and Phoenix", "Phoenix Playing Peony", "Persimmon and Ruyi" and so on.

Paper cutting, also known as paper carving, is a kind of openwork art. It is one of the oldest folk arts of the Han Chinese. Its visually gives people the feeling and artistic enjoyment of permeability. The carrier of paper cutting can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather. The most representative is the northern Shanxi Jiangping paper-cutting, developed into multi-color, set of colors, color and beauty, the formation of the "simple in the complexity, complexity and harmony, and in the difference" of the original color, colorful art language.

Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history and wide circulation in rural China. Paper-cutting is the use of scissors to cut paper into a variety of patterns, such as window, door paper, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, lanterns - and so on. The creation and spread of this folk art is closely related to the festive customs in rural China. During the New Year festivals or wedding celebrations, the word "Xi" is often posted, and people put the beautiful and brightly colored paper cuttings on snow-white walls or brightly colored windows, doors, lanterns, etc., so that the festive atmosphere is rendered very rich and festive. The art of paper-cutting is a traditional Han Chinese folk craft, which has a long history and is a treasure of Chinese folk art and has become a treasure in the world's art treasury. The simple, vivid and interesting artistic modeling has a unique artistic charm. Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the two-dimensionality of the spatial concept, the knife flavor paper sense, line and decoration, writing and allegory and many other aspects.