The origin and history of the art of paper-cutting (The origin and historical background of the art of paper-cutting)

1. In ancient times, mankind has discovered and utilized the artistic technique of using images as image representations, and then created the artistic language of carving and hollowing out on various materials. This is reflected in many primitive society colored pottery rock paintings, Shang and Zhou bronzes, and Han portrait stone art, all of which reflect the perfection of ancient craftsmen using this artistic technique. Today's folk paper-cutting and its extremely obvious consistency in modeling methods and external features, fully explaining the inheritance and continuity of the relationship between them.

2, China's folk paper-cutting handicraft art has its own formation and development process, the invention of paper in China is in the BC era of the Western Han Dynasty, before this is impossible to have the emergence of the art of paper-cutting, but at that time, people use sheet materials, through hollowing out the carving techniques made of handicrafts, but as early as when there is no paper has been popular, that is, to carve, skeleton, ticking, engraving, cutting techniques in the gold foil, leather, Silk, and even in the leaves cut patterns.

3, "Historical Records" in the cut Tong Feng Di described the early Western Zhou Dynasty King Cheng with sycamore leaves cut into "Gui" given to his brother, sealed Ji Yu to Tang as a marquis. During the Warring States period, there is leather skeletonization, silver foil skeleton engraved flowers, and paper-cutting with a withdrawal, their appearance for the formation of folk paper-cutting laid a certain foundation. China's earliest discovery of paper-cutting works, is in 1967, China's archaeologists in Xinjiang Turpan Basin, Gaochang site near the Astana ancient Northern Dynasties curtain group, found two regimental flower paper-cutting, they use hemp paper, are folding ritual paper-cutting, their discovery of China's paper-cutting formation to provide physical evidence.