Nowadays, Chinese paper-cutting has been listed in the Representative List of Intangible Civilization Heritage of Human Being and passed down as a treasure house of world art. The folk paper-cutting handicraft art in China is like an ivy, which is ancient and evergreen, and its unique popularity, practicality and aesthetics have become a symbolic meaning to meet people's psychological needs.
China has a vast territory and a large population. The social history, natural conditions, geographical environment, customs and fashions, living habits and aesthetic concepts of different ethnic groups in different regions are different, which leads to different contents, themes and styles of folk paper-cutting. Fengning and Yuxian in Hebei are most famous for dyeing window grilles, which are continuously engraved and dyed with bright colors and excellent light and shadow effects.
Foshan City, Guangdong Province is most famous for its colorful window grilles. Cut out the main pattern with gold paper or silver foil paper, and line the back with various colored papers. This practice is called "copper lining" The paper-plastic window flowers in Weinan, Shaanxi Province are the most representative. Paper-cutting is located in Yan 'an area of northwest plateau, which is a main way of farmers' cultural life. Its style is simple, bright and unpretentious.
It truly and vividly reflects the interests, feelings and yearning for a better life of farmers. Women in Binzhou, Shandong Province cut out their "paintings" with scissors. There is a kind of stippling paper-cut in Hebei, northwestern Shanxi and southeastern Inner Mongolia, which is characterized by its unique style, strong decoration and high artistic status.
Various patterns in clothing paper-cut in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are very common in rural areas. The works are exquisite and beautiful, free and easy, permeated with the beauty of simplicity, innocence, simplicity and frankness, and are highly decorative and rhythmic. Whether it's marriage, birthday celebration, or festivals, peasant women are indispensable.
Paper-cutting is to cut and carve the paper to make it show the image it wants to show. Nowadays, decorative patterns or patterns carved with scissors or paper are called paper-cutting art. The ancient farming society in China fundamentally determined the content and form of folk paper-cutting, which is naive, simple, rough, simple, smart, natural and interesting, fully showing its own special artistic charm. This ancient art in the agricultural society has evolved into an important manifestation of China local culture through the inheritance and development from generation to generation by the broad masses of the people. The geographical environment of rural life, the characteristics of agricultural production and social customs also make this local art have distinctive folk customs and artistic characteristics.