China traditional landscape paper-cutting.

Hundreds of folk paper-cut artists in Yan 'an, Shaanxi Province created a painting with a length of12m and a width of1.5m? Huge? The paper-cut work "Hundred Cows Map" vividly shows calves of different shapes to welcome the upcoming Lunar Year of the Ox. ?

Paper-cutting Art Paper-cutting is one of the oldest folk arts in China, with a history of 1500 years. It is an empty art, which can give people a sense of visual emptiness and artistic enjoyment.

Paper-cutting mainly uses scissors to cut paper into various patterns, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceilings, snuff and so on. Every holiday or wedding day, people will stick these beautiful and bright paper-cuts on windows, walls, doors and lanterns at home, making the festive atmosphere more rich, festive and pleasant.

Just like the scene described in the Tang poem Cai Sheng:? Cut and give a blind date, and the silver hairpin adorns the phoenix. The leaves chase after the golden knife, and the flowers bring jade. ?

The carrier of paper-cutting can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth and leather.

Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the two-dimensional concept of space, the texture of knife and paper, lines and decoration, freehand brushwork and implication and many other aspects.

Paper-cutting means celebrating festivals or weddings, and the word "Xi" is usually pasted. People stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on snow-white walls or bright glass windows, doors, lanterns and so on, and the festive atmosphere is rendered very rich and festive.

Paper-cutting has a long history in rural areas of China, has a broad mass base, is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities, and is a widely spread folk art form. Its emergence and spread are closely related to the festival customs in rural areas.

It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, and expresses the social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, which has multiple social values.

In 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

In 2009, at the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Chinese paper-cut project declared by China was selected? List of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage? .

Through a pair of scissors and a piece of paper, you can express the joys and sorrows in your life and describe the world you see and hear. This is the unique charm of paper-cutting art.