What kind of folk paper-cutting belongs to?

Folk paper-cutting belongs to the traditional art category among the ten categories of intangible cultural heritage.

Paper-cut art has a long history and is widely spread, at least 1500 years old. 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, and has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expressiveness, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, paper-cutting was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. The project catalog number is VII- 16, which is a project with many subprojects after continuous expansion. According to the contents of relevant documents published by the State Council, Bian Xiao made statistics on the data of five batches of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

The origin of paper-cutting:

The origin of paper-cutting actually started very early. At that time, people tried to use some graphics to record notes and present content, but there was no paper at that time, and people could only record some information on bronze wares, bamboo slips, animal skins and other carriers.

With the appearance of paper, these creative patterns began to transfer to paper. Through this comparison, we can see that the origin of paper-cutting comes from the pattern recording method of our ancestors.