The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually.
Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials. They are artists and folk artists from different regions and schools, with different styles, characteristics and a wide range of subjects, including opera figures, birds, insects, fish and beasts, and descriptions of rural real life, reflecting the working people's love for life and their pursuit and yearning for truth, goodness and beauty.
Whether it is A Qin, who reflects the people's good fortune and happiness, or historical stories, folklore and figures loved by working people; Whether it is the unique cultural background and folk customs in the north, or it is used in four seasons celebrations and wedding ceremonies, it reflects the superb wisdom and rich imagination of the people. Coupled with the dense modeling design, meticulous and exquisite knife work, gorgeous and bright unique touch dyeing, everything is very lively, interesting and durable.
The ornamental, collectible and practical characteristics of paper-cut make this art with local characteristics more dazzling.
2. The history of paper-cutting Folk paper-cutting is an ancient traditional folk art in China.
It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. The main material of paper-cutting is paper.
Paper is one of China's four great inventions. It has always been recognized that papermaking was invented by Cai Lun around 105. Later, paper from the Western Han Dynasty was unearthed in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province. Experts believe that paper appeared in China before Emperor Han Ping, probably during the period of Xuan Di (73 BC-49 BC).
No matter what the final conclusion is, there will be no real paper-cutting before the invention of paper. However, other plates are used for cutting and carving, but before there is paper.
Let's take a look at the relevant historical records of cultural relics: During the Warring States Period (476 BC-22 BC1year), an arc-shaped ornament carved with silver foil was found during the excavation of the Warring States site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province. (2) Gold ornaments of the Jin Dynasty unearthed in Huangniqi, Changsha, Hunan.
Although these decorations hollowed out with silver foil can't be said to be paper-cut, they can be said to have formed the predecessor of paper-cut art in carving technology and artistic style. In the Northern Dynasty (AD 386-534), paper was cut into beautiful patterns. At present, the earliest and well-documented discovery is near the Flame Mountain in Turpan, Xinjiang, where five paper-cuts of group flowers were unearthed.
3. The historical origin of Chinese paper-cutting: Chinese paper-cutting originated from the Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was quite good at this, but it really flourished after the mid-Qing Dynasty.
Ancient paper-cuts were mostly made in rural areas, mainly scissors, simple and natural, all made by peasant women. After paper-cutting enters the city, not only citizens' interests and life ideals have to participate in the art of paper-cutting, but thousands of families in Qian Qian are crowded together, accustomed to each other and demanding a lot; In order to save labor, paper-cutting artists changed to carving with one knife and multiple pieces, and their styles turned to exquisiteness, and artists were not limited to women. However, with the changes of the times, life and aesthetics, traditional folk art can't meet the needs of reality gradually, so modern emerging paper-cutting art was born.
Paper-cutting is a folk art with a unique artistic style, which is carved by hand and then dyed with bright and beautiful colors. Working people put it on paper windows as a decoration for New Year's festivals, so it is also called "window grilles".
The contents of traditional window grilles are mainly opera figures, flowers, insects, fish and beasts, as well as some auspicious and homophonic images, which are filled with cheerful, healthy and love life feelings and are deeply loved by the masses. Paper-cutting Art Paper-cutting is a folk art with a unique artistic style, which is carved by hand and then dyed with bright colors.
Working people put it on paper windows as a decoration for New Year's festivals, so it is also called "window grilles". The contents of traditional window grilles are mainly opera figures, flowers, insects, fish and beasts, as well as some auspicious and homophonic images, which are filled with cheerful, healthy and love life feelings and are deeply loved by the masses.
The art of paper-cutting has a history of nearly 200 years. Artists have inherited and absorbed traditional folk art forms, such as wood watermark window grilles, Tianjin Yangliuqing woodcut New Year pictures and knife-carved embroidery patterns, created artistic varieties, and gradually formed a unique artistic style through continuous innovation.
Paper-cutting art is deeply rooted in working people. Most of its authors are unknown farmers. They paint, carve and dye by themselves, and are busy farming and carving window grilles in their spare time. Through their dexterous hands, they poured the simple feelings, good wishes and the pursuit of a happy life of the broad masses of peasants into their own works of art, which reflected the close relationship between the author and the masses and made the paper-cutting art win an inexhaustible artistic life.
In the long years, through the painstaking efforts of countless unknown peasant authors, a large number of outstanding works have been created and many outstanding folk artists have been trained. Paper-cut art is mainly manifested as "intaglio carving" and "color stippling".
Its composition is simple and full, its shape is vivid and beautiful, and its color contrast is strong. His works are pasted on paper windows, dazzling through the outdoor sunlight, showing a unique artistic effect. Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China. According to archaeology, its history can be traced back to the sixth century, but people think it actually started hundreds of years earlier.
Paper-cutting is often used in religious ceremonies, decoration and plastic arts. In the past, people used paper to make objects and portraits of different shapes, and then buried them with the dead or burned them at funerals. This custom can still be seen outside China.
Paper-cutting art is generally symbolic and is part of this ceremony; In addition, paper-cutting is also used as an ornament to worship ancestors and immortals. Because of its easily available materials, low cost, obvious effect and wide adaptability, it is widely welcomed. Because it is most suitable for rural women's leisure production, it can be used as a practical object and beautify their lives.
Paper-cutting can be seen all over the country, and even formed different local styles. Paper-cutting not only shows the aesthetic taste of the public, but also contains the deep social psychology of the nation. It is also one of the most distinctive folk arts in China, and its modeling features are particularly worth studying.
Nowadays, paper-cutting is more used for decoration. Paper-cutting can be used to decorate walls, doors and windows, columns, mirrors, lamps and so on. It can also be used as a gift decoration, and even the paper-cut itself can be given as a gift to others.
In the past, people used paper-cutting as a model for embroidery and painting. Paper-cutting is not made by machine, but by hand. The common methods are scissors and knife scissors.
As the name implies, scissors are scissors. After cutting, paste a few (usually no more than 8) paper-cuts, and finally process the pattern with sharp scissors. Knife scissors first fold the paper into several folds, put it on the soft mixture of ashes and animal fat, and then slowly carve it with a knife.
Paper-cutting artists usually hold a knife vertically and process the paper into the desired pattern according to a certain model. Compared with scissors, one advantage of knife scissors is that they can be processed into various paper-cut patterns at one time.
In rural areas, paper-cutting is usually done by women and girls. In the past, this was a handicraft art that every girl had to master, and it was also a standard for people to judge brides.
Professional paper-cutting artists are often men, because only men can work together in the workshop and earn money together. History: According to research, from the Shang Dynasty (BC1600-100), people carved flowers with gold foil, silver foil, leather or silk as decorations.
1950- 1952 During the excavation of the Warring States site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province, arc ornaments carved with silver foil were found. Although these decorations hollowed out with silver foil can't be said to be paper-cut, they can be said to have formed the predecessor of paper-cut art in carving technology and artistic style.
In the Western Han Dynasty, people used hemp fiber to make paper. It is said that after the death of Li, the favorite princess of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the emperor missed him and couldn't sleep well, so he asked the warlock to use the image cut out of hemp paper to evoke the soul. This is probably the earliest paper-cutting. In A.D. 105, Cai Lun improved and popularized the previous experience and began to make a lot of paper. This engraving form has found more popular materials and gave birth to paper-cutting art, which has a history of more than 2000 years.
The paper was cut into beautiful patterns. At present, the earliest and well-documented paper-cuts of group flowers in the Southern and Northern Dynasties were unearthed near the Flame Mountain in Turpan, Xinjiang: Ma Tuan Tuan Hua; Yes, monkey flowers; Honeysuckle; Chrysanthemum; Eight flowers. Paper-cut patterns have been applied to other handicrafts in the Tang Dynasty.
From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, a kind of gold and silver inlay technology appeared, that is, sticking the engraved gold and silver foil on the back of lacquer or bronze mirror, filling it with pigment and drying it to show golden patterns on the lacquer surface. It was popular in Tang and Song Dynasties.
4. Paper-cut historical paper-cut, also known as paper carving, window grilling or painting scissors.
The difference is that when creating, some use scissors and some use carving knives. Although the tools are different, the artistic works created are basically the same, which is collectively called paper-cutting. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually.
Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials. Catalogue Introduction Historical Records Creation Composition Method Modeling Tool Description Paper-cut Carving Tool Flow Modern Paper-cut Mounting Form Mounting Paper Plate Mounting Scroll Mounting Plastic Mounting Symbol Southern School Hubei Mianyang Paper-cut Guangdong Foshan Paper-cut Fujian Folk Paper-cut Jiangsu Yangzhou Folk Paper-cut Zhejiang Northern School Shanxi Paper-cut Guangling Paper-cut Jincheng Paper-cut Hebei Yuxian Paper-cut Shaanxi Folk Paper-cut Chaoyang Paper-cut Hebei Fucheng Paper-cut Representative Ku Lan Shu Zhu Huamei Cao Dianxiang Wang Laoshang CoCo Lee Basic Information Brief History Writing composition method modeling tool description paper-cut engraving tool process modern paper-cut mounting form frame mounting paper plate mounting scroll mounting plastic mounting symbolic significance Nanpai Hubei Mianyang paper-cut Guangdong Foshan paper-cut Fujian folk paper-cut Jiangsu and Zhejiang Paiyang. State Paper-cut Zhejiang Folk Paper-cut North School Shanxi Paper-cut Guangling Paper-cut Jincheng Paper-cut Hebei Yuxian Paper-cut Shaanxi Folk Paper-cut Shandong Folk Paper-cut Chaoyang Paper-cut Hebei Fucheng Paper-cut Representative Ku Lan Shu Zhu Huamei Cao Dianxiang Wang Laoshang CoCo Lee Basic Information Content Introduction Editor On May 20, 2006, the paper-cut artistic heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
On June 5, 2007, Zhou Zhaoming, a disciple of Wang Laoshang in Yuxian County, Hebei Province, was recognized as the representative inheritor of this cultural heritage project by the Ministry of Culture and included in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects. On June 8, 2007, Shanghai Li paper-cut? Master Studio was awarded the first Cultural Heritage Day Award by the Ministry of Culture.
On September 6th, 2008, Li Xiang Style Paper-cut Studio was formally established. On the basis of inheriting the traditional Shandong folk paper-cutting, the works were kneaded into exquisite and graceful southern paper-cutting, and the portrait paper-cutting was innovated and practiced. On September 30, 2009, Chinese paper-cutting was approved by UNESCO Inter-Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and included in the fourth batch of "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".
20 10 is the year of the tiger. A single tiger paper-cut created by Mr. Zhu Weizhen, president of Zhejiang Tonglu Paper-cut Association, is 10 meter wide and 7 meters high. This work was certified on the spot and selected as the largest single tiger paper-cut in world record association, China, creating another world-class paper-cut art.
It adds auspiciousness and joy to the arrival of the Year of the Tiger. China folk paper-cut handicraft art has its own formation and development process. China paper was invented in the Western Han Dynasty (6th century BC). At that time, people used very thin materials to make handicrafts by hollowing out and carving, but it was popular long before paper appeared, that is, patterns were cut on gold foil, leather, silk and even leaves by carving, carving, picking, carving and cutting.
According to Records of the Historian Jiantong Di Feng, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a king claimed the title of king, and cut a plane tree leaf into a "reed" and gave it to his younger brother, who was named Hou in the Tang Dynasty. During the Warring States period, leather carvings (one of the cultural relics unearthed from Chu Tomb No.1 in Jiangling, Hubei Province) and silver foil carvings (one of the cultural relics unearthed from the Warring States site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan Province) were all demolished together with paper-cutting, and their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.
China's earliest paper-cut works were discovered in 1967, when the largest paper-cut tiger family in China discovered two paper-cut flowers in the Northern Dynasties tomb in Astana near Gaochang Site in Turpan Basin, Xinjiang. They used hemp paper, both of which were folded sacrificial paper-cuts. Their discovery provided physical evidence for the formation of paper-cuts in China. The history of paper-cutting handicraft art, that is, paper-cutting in the true sense, should begin with the appearance of paper.
The invention of paper in Han Dynasty promoted the appearance, development and popularization of paper-cutting. Paper is a moldy material. In the southeast of our country, the climate is humid, and the rainy days in May and June every year, paper products will rot over time. Folk paper-cutting is a popular thing. People don't keep it as a treasure, and they can cut it if it is broken.
In the northwest of China, the weather is dry, the climate is dry, and the paper is not easy to get moldy, which may also be one of the important reasons for the discovery of paper-cutting in the Northern Dynasties in Turpan, Xinjiang. Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem, there is a saying that "warm water trapped my feet, and paper-cutting called back my soul", and the custom of paper-cutting called back my soul had spread among the people at that time.
The paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty, which is now in the British Museum, shows that the paper-cut at that time had a high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, expressing an ideal realm between heaven and earth. Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the carved patterns of flowers and trees have the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the pattern of "Duiyang" in Masakura Hospital in Japan is a typical artistic expression of hand cutting.
In the Tang dynasty, there was also block printing made of paper-cutting. People carved it into wax paper with thick paper, and then printed the dye on the cloth to form beautiful patterns. In Song Dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting.
For example, it can be used as "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window grilles" pasted on windows, or as decorations for lanterns and teacups. The application scope of folk paper-cutting in Song Dynasty gradually expanded. Jiangxi Jizhou Kiln uses paper-cut as the pattern of ceramics, and makes the ceramics more exquisite by glazing and firing. Folk also use paper-cutting to carve figures in shadow play with the skins of animals such as donkeys, cows, horses and sheep. The engraved version made by the blue printed cloth technology is carved into patterns with oil cardboard, and the scratched patterns are made by paper-cutting technology, which is divided into yin and yang engraving. Long lines should be cut off to distinguish facts from truth.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. Folk paper-cut handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns, all of which are reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration.
What's more, China people often use paper-cutting as decoration to beautify the home environment, such as doorjambs, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers, which are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms.
5. Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China. According to archaeology, its history can be traced back to the 6th century, but people think it actually started hundreds of years earlier.
Paper-cutting is often used in religious ceremonies, decoration and plastic arts. In the past, people used paper to make objects and portraits of different shapes, and then buried them with the dead or burned them at funerals. This custom can still be seen outside China.
Paper-cutting art is generally symbolic and is part of this ceremony; In addition, paper-cutting is also used as an ornament to worship ancestors and immortals. Nowadays, paper-cutting is more used for decoration.
Paper-cutting can be used to decorate walls, doors and windows, columns, mirrors, lamps and so on. It can also be used as a gift decoration, and even the paper-cut itself can be given as a gift to others. In the past, people used paper-cutting as a model for embroidery and painting.
6. Understand the history of paper-cutting. The history of paper-cutting should start with the appearance of paper.
The invention of paper in Han Dynasty (Western Han Dynasty) promoted the appearance, development and popularization of paper-cutting. Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem, there is a saying that "warm water trapped my feet, and paper-cutting called back my soul", and the custom of paper-cutting called back my soul had spread among the people at that time.
In Song Dynasty, the paper industry was mature and there were many kinds of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting. For example, it can be used as "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window grilles" pasted on windows, or as decorations for lanterns and teacups.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the paper-cut handicraft art matured and reached its peak. Folk paper-cut handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as flower decorations on folk lanterns, decorative patterns on fans and embroidery patterns, all of which are reprocessed with paper-cut as decoration.
What's more, Chinese people often use paper-cutting as decoration to beautify the home environment, such as door battlements, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers and ceiling flowers, which are all used to decorate doors, windows and rooms. Finally, I reached the realm of free will, and the letter hand cut out a new pattern.
China folk paper-cut handicraft art, like an ivy, is ancient and evergreen, and its unique popularity, practicality and aesthetics have become a symbolic meaning that meets people's psychological needs. Paper-cutting not only sets off the festive atmosphere, but also brings people beautiful enjoyment.
It is entrusted with people's yearning for a better life and expectations for good luck and happiness.
7. Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China. According to archaeology, its history can be traced back to the 6th century, but people think it actually started hundreds of years earlier. Paper-cutting is often used in religious ceremonies, decoration and plastic arts.
In the past, people used paper to make objects and portraits of different shapes, and then buried them with the dead or burned them at funerals. This custom can still be seen outside China. Paper-cutting art is generally symbolic and is part of this ceremony; In addition, paper-cutting is also used as an ornament to worship ancestors and immortals.
Nowadays, paper-cutting is more used for decoration. Paper-cutting can be used to decorate walls, doors and windows, columns, mirrors, lamps and so on. It can also be used as a gift decoration, and even the paper-cut itself can be given as a gift to others. In the past, people used paper-cutting as a model for embroidery and painting.
8. The Origin of Paper-cutting China's paper-cutting originated from the Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and was quite good at it, but it really flourished after the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Ancient paper-cuts were mostly made in rural areas, mainly scissors, simple and natural, all made by peasant women. After paper-cutting enters the city, not only citizens' interests and life ideals have to participate in the art of paper-cutting, but thousands of families in Qian Qian are crowded together, accustomed to each other and demanding a lot; In order to save labor, paper-cutting artists changed to carving with one knife and multiple pieces, and their styles turned to exquisiteness, and artists were not limited to women. However, with the changes of the times, life and aesthetics, traditional folk art can't meet the needs of reality gradually, so modern emerging paper-cutting art was born.
Paper-cutting is a folk art with a unique artistic style, which is carved by hand and then dyed with bright and beautiful colors. Working people put it on paper windows as a decoration for New Year's festivals, so it is also called "window grilles".
The contents of traditional window grilles are mainly opera figures, flowers, insects, fish and beasts, as well as some auspicious and homophonic images, which are filled with cheerful, healthy and love life feelings and are deeply loved by the masses. The art of paper-cutting has a history of nearly 200 years.
Artists have inherited and absorbed traditional folk art forms, such as wood watermark window grilles, Tianjin Yangliuqing woodcut New Year pictures and knife-carved embroidery patterns, created artistic varieties, and gradually formed a unique artistic style through continuous innovation. Paper-cutting art is deeply rooted in working people.
Most of its authors are unknown farmers. They paint, carve and dye by themselves, and are busy farming and carving window grilles in their spare time. Through their dexterous hands, they poured the simple feelings, good wishes and the pursuit of a happy life of the broad masses of peasants into their own works of art, which reflected the close relationship between the author and the masses and made the paper-cutting art win an inexhaustible artistic life. In the long years, through the painstaking efforts of countless unknown peasant authors, a large number of outstanding works have been created and many outstanding folk artists have been trained.
Paper-cut art is mainly manifested as "intaglio carving" and "color stippling". Its composition is simple and full, its shape is vivid and beautiful, and its color contrast is strong. His works are pasted on paper windows, dazzling through the outdoor sunlight, showing a unique artistic effect.