Do you know what kinds of paper-cutting are?

First, it can be divided into folk paper-cutting and modern paper-cutting.

Folk paper-cutting has five characteristics: simple style, concise techniques, decorative composition, vivid modeling and bright colors. Folk paper-cutting is mainly based on folk auspicious paper-cutting, which is expressed by homophonic, moral and metonymy. For example, "Fu Lu Shuang Quan", "Fu Shou Shuang Quan", "Liuhe Tongchun" and so on.

There are also folk stories, folklore and some folk customs, folk songs, folk songs and so on. Such as The Legend of the White Snake, A Dream of Red Mansions, Eight Immortals and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl; Eighteen eccentrics in Shaanxi, eighteen eccentrics in Shandong, etc.

Modern paper-cutting is also called "new paper-cutting". As a school of paper-cutting, it has more charm of the times. It has both traditional colors and the flavor of the times, and occupies an important position in today's paper-cutting industry.

Secondly, in practice, it can be divided into simple shearing and folding shearing.

Single cut: cut the image completely without folding paper, which is mostly used for asymmetric objects. Characterized by vivid images.

Folding cut: the image cut after paper folding, which is mostly used for symmetrical and partially symmetrical objects. Give people a dignified, steady and quiet symmetrical aesthetic feeling.