1, Ku Lan Shu (1920-2004), female, from Fucun, Equatorial Township, Xunyi County, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, is one of the outstanding representatives of China folk paper-cutting art and a master of China folk arts and crafts, and is known as "Mrs. Paper-cutting".
Ku Lan Shu was born in a poor peasant family. At the age of six, I began to learn paper-cutting and painting from my mother. Its paper-cut style has bold composition, full characters and bright colors, which quickly attracted the attention of the art world. Her artistic paper-cut works have also been exhibited in Xi 'an Art Museum, China Art Museum and the Exhibition Hall of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
1996 was awarded the title of "Outstanding Master of Folk Art" by UNESCO, and she was the first native of China to win this title. Color paste paper-cut represented by Ku Lan Shu is listed in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.
2. Shen, the only executive director of China Paper-cutting Society in Sichuan, a member of China Writers and Artists Association, one of the top ten paper-cutting artists in China, a national second-class artist, and a representative inheritor of provincial paper-cutting.
Born in 1945, Shen is 76 years old. Shen has been interested in arts and crafts since his school days.
1959 14-year-old Shen graduated from junior high school and became an apprentice in Zigong Arts and Crafts Factory, mainly making paper-cutting, Gong Fan, tie-dyeing, lacquerware, bamboo curtains and other handicrafts, and learning paper-cutting from Yu Manbai, who won the paper-cutting art award at the Leipzig World Expo. Today, countless scissors have accompanied him through 62 years of paper-cutting career.
Paper-cutting is a common name among the people. In fact, its academic name should be painting art-paper-cutting.