Chinese paper cutting

剪采赠相亲，

银钗缀凤珍。

叶逐金刀出，

花随玉指新。

Chinese paper cutting

Warm childhood memories
That happy Chinese color

In ancient times, women's red is an important symbol of the perfection of traditional women in China. As a compulsory skill of women's red, paper-cutting is a standard for people to judge brides.

Paper cutting, also known as paper cutting, paper cutting with scissors into a variety of patterns, is a hollowed-out art, one of the oldest folk arts of the han nationality in China, giving people a sense of transparency and artistic enjoyment.

A brief history of paper cutting
Speaking of the origin of paper cutting, there are many interesting stories, the most classic one is "wudi sifei", the emperor's favorite concubine - Mrs. Li, hong yan thin life, xiang xiaoyu dead, wudi daily unable to sleep. At this time, there is a warlock recommend, can let madam li return soul and wudi meet, the magic is, under the warlock's control, a familiar good figure slowly walked, wudi advanced to retain, but the shadow in the account quietly disappeared.

Actually, the warlock did not have the method of "evocation", just staged a "paper film", which is also the earliest form of paper-cut.

The warring states period

The warring states period used leather cutting, silver foil cutting cut flowers, and paper cutting, as the basis for folk paper cutting.

The han dynasty

The invention of paper in han dynasty prompted the emergence, development and popularization of paper cutting.

The tang dynasty

The art of paper cutting is very high, the picture composition is complete, popular, and the pattern of carved wooden board has the characteristics of paper cutting.

The song dynasty

In the song dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products.

The Ming and qing dynasties

During the Ming and qing dynasties, the art of paper-cutting reached its peak and was more widely used, including flower decorations on colored lanterns, ornamentation on fan surfaces and embroidery patterns.

There are many tricks alive

Monochrome paper-cut

Cut and carve on monochrome paper, mainly red paper, because the Chinese believe red is a festive color.

Stippling paper-cut

Choose white rice paper, and then color after cutting and carving, rich in color, endless change, with a strong local flavor.

Fold the paper cutting

Cut and carve the paper in half or several folds to form a symmetrical or repeated pattern based on a unit pattern.

Color matching paper-cut

The art of cutting paper into parts by cutting them in various colors

Genre has a long history

The northern style
Be bold and bold. It is mainly applied to People's Daily life, such as window flower, pillow flower, happy flower, door god and so on, mostly cut out with red paper, reflecting festive, lively atmosphere.

Southern style
Won by soft xiu, delicate and delicate, more used in life, sacrifice, with a more strong flavor of life and original ecological cultural characteristics.

Ancient art exists today
The spread of art knows no borders. In recent years, paper-cut has become the favorite of the fashion industry. Designers have integrated paper-cut elements into fashion, and various international shows have brought a visual feast of fashion and retro style.

Besides, embroidery is widely used in life.
embellishment

paper-cut

A wall flower

Part Six

wedding-flower

birthday-flower

Embroidery

The embroidery figure

The embroidery powder

Chinese folk paper-cut art, a pair of scissors, a piece of paper, wonderful hand living flowers. With the help of paper-cut, Chinese people express their simple desire to be well-fed and prosperous, and their yearning for a better life.