China traditional culture paper-cut 360 words

Paper-cut art is one of the oldest Han folk arts. As a kind of hollow art, it can give people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. Paper-cutting uses scissors to cut paper into various patterns, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceilings and snuff. Every holiday or wedding celebration, people will stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on windows, walls, doors and lanterns at home, and the festive atmosphere will be more enthusiastic. In rural areas, paper-cutting is usually done by women and girls. In the past, paper-cutting was a handicraft art that almost every girl had to master, and it was also a standard for people to judge brides. The paper-cutting art in the north and south of China can express all kinds of joys and sorrows in life through a pair of scissors and a piece of paper.

Technically speaking, paper-cutting is actually cutting and carving on paper to present the image to be expressed. The working people of the Han nationality have honed this art form with their own intelligence and wisdom in the long-term artistic practice and life practice. Formed a variety of techniques such as tearing paper, ironing paper, color matching, color matching, dyeing, sketching, etc., so that the expressive force of paper-cutting extends infinitely in depth and breadth. As thin as a silkworm spinning silk and as thick as a big brush. Its different forms can be attached to the pendulum lining or hung in the air. Because the tools and materials of paper-cutting are simple and popular, and the techniques are easy to master, it has irreplaceable characteristics of other art categories. Therefore, this art form has spread almost all over China's urban and rural areas since ancient times, and won the people's love.

In ancient times, human beings have discovered and used the artistic technique of taking images as image representation, and then created transparent artistic language carved on various materials. This is reflected in many primitive painted pottery rock paintings, Shang and Zhou bronzes and Han stone reliefs, and the perfection of ancient craftsmen's application of this artistic technique. Today's folk paper-cutting has obvious consistency with its modeling method and external characteristics, which fully shows the inheritance and continuation relationship between them.