Paper cutting has a long history, so what are the regional characteristics of Shaanxi paper cutting?

Chinese paper-cutting, with a long history and a long history, is a splendid flower in the traditional Chinese folk culture. Paper cutting is a kind of painting cut out on paper. Paper cutting is an ancient and popular folk culture form.

Chinese paper-cutting art is popular in the north and south of China. Because of its different geographical location, the folk have different titles for paper-cutting. Such as window flower, group flower, wall flower, lantern flower, shoe flower, sleeve flower, bib flower, pillow flower, door to the flower, gift flower, happy flower and so on. One of the most commonly used title is the window flower, people often call the window flower as the papercutting of the milk name.

Shaanxi has been the political and cultural center of the Chinese nation since ancient times, and the legendary Yellow Emperor was buried in Huangling Qiaoshan in Shaanxi, and the Yangshao culture ruins of 5,000 years ago have been found in Xi'an Half-slope, Lintong, Jiangzhai, and Baoji Beishouling. Thirteen dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, all built their capitals in Shaanxi, leaving behind a rich heritage of folk culture.

The art of paper-cutting in Shaanxi is promoted as a "world cultural heritage and a treasure of Chinese folk art". Whether in Yan'an or Xi'an, the "experience of folk customs, enjoy the thick folks" paper-cutting booklets can be found everywhere, spend two or three dollars to be able to buy a book on the street "Shaanxi paper-cutting boutique", "twelve Chinese zodiac paper-cutting boutique" and "the ten strangest in northern Shaanxi" and other paper-cutting booklets, which gathered the essence of the folk art of paper-cutting in northern Shaanxi, people can't help but be happy, love it.

So, Shaanxi paper-cutting in China and the world enjoys a high reputation, has a "national mother art", "the source of the cultural history of the living fossil" reputation, and was included in UNESCO's "Intangible Oral Heritage of Humanity". "intangible oral cultural heritage of mankind protection list", because it is more complete inheritance of the Chinese nation's ancient modeling patterns, so there is a high historical status and research value.

The art of paper-cutting can be traced back to the period of the North and South Dynasties, roughly at the same time as the emergence of Chinese papermaking, and still thrives in the north and south of the country. Most of the materials are taken from festivals, harvests, folk opera stories, children, animals and so on.

Not only is it fun and decorative, it has a deep mass base, so it is loved by everyone. Folk artists with their unique art form will be the ancient legacy of generations, so that the art of paper cutting has become a close to life, rooted in the popular folk art.