What are the activities of this interest group?

What are the activities of the paper-cutting club, this interest group: to collect background information about the history of paper-cutting, to understand the history of its development and its art categories.

Paper-cutting is introduced as follows:

Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate the life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, intermingled with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities. Its inherited visual image and modeling format, contains a wealth of cultural and historical information.

It expresses the social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, life ideals and aesthetic interests of the general public, and has multiple social values such as cognition, edification, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

The history of paper-cutting is introduced as follows:

The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty, B.C., before which it was impossible to have the emergence of the art of paper-cutting, but at that time, the people used sheet material, made of crafts through the hollowing out of the carving technique, but as early as when there was no paper has been popular, that is, with the sculpture, hollowing out, ticking, carving, cutting the techniques in the gold foil, leather, silk.

Even in the leaves cut and carved patterns. In the Historical Records of the Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of the early Western Zhou Dynasty used sycamore leaves to cut into "gui" for his brother, and sealed Ji Yu as a marquis in Tang.

Warring States period, there is leather skeletonization, (Hubei Jiang Ling Wangshan one of the excavated artifacts of the Chu Tomb), silver foil skeletonization carving (Henan Huixian solid surrounded by one of the excavated artifacts of the village of the Warring States site), are the same with the paper-cutting, and their emergence for the formation of folk paper-cutting to lay the foundation for a certain degree.

Tang Dynasty paper-cutting is introduced as follows:

Tang Dynasty paper-cutting has been in a period of great development, Du Fu's "Peng Nga line" in the poem "Warm soup wash my feet, Jian paper to invoke my soul," the sentence, the custom of the soul of the paper-cutting has been circulating folk. Now hidden in the British Museum of the Tang Dynasty paper cuts can be seen at that time the level of handmade paper cutting art has been extremely high, the picture composition is complete, expressing a kind of heaven and earth ideal realm.

The Tang Dynasty popular Jie, its openwork woodblock pattern with paper-cutting characteristics, such as now hidden in Japan's Shosoin's "Sheep", the pattern of the sheep is a typical paper-cutting handmade art expression.