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Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities.

It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, 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, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28th to1October 2nd, 65438, the Chinese paper-cut project declared by China was selected into the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

On 20 18 12, the general office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the heritage base of Chinese excellent traditional culture in paper cutting.

1, folding paper-cut

Folding paper-cut is one of the most common ways of making and expressing. The so-called folding paper-cut is a paper-cut that is folded and cut in different ways. The earliest flowers, such as "Ma Dui" and "Piled Monkey", were cut out by folding.

Folding paper-cut folding method is simple, easy to make, labor-saving and time-saving, and its shape is a generalization with certain deformation. Especially suitable for symmetrical shapes and symmetrical patterns, such as people, frogs, butterflies, turtles, reflections, fish and so on. , geometric patterns, flowers, landscapes, utensils and other themes can be adapted, and they are extremely symmetrical and can be changed into various suitable shapes.

Two sides are continuous, four sides are continuous or many sides are continuous, which is one of the main reasons why it can be circulated for a long time. Folding paper-cutting has played an important role in the popularization of Chinese paper-cutting and the shaping of technological patterns.

2. Outline

Silhouette is an ancient form of paper-cutting art, which expresses the shapes of people and objects through the outline, so it pays most attention to the beauty and modeling of the outline. Due to the limitation of contour modeling, silhouette generally shows the profile of people or other objects better.

Its tools are mainly scissors and carving knives, and the paper is usually black or heavy color paper. When showing the silhouette of a character, it is usually cut while looking at the object. Silhouette is very suitable for showing light transmission effect, and it is a distinctive paper-cut type.

3. Tear this paper apart

Tearing paper is a new type evolved from traditional folk paper-cutting. Its method is to use different kinds of paper and tear out the shape by hand. Hand-cutting will naturally be greatly restricted, which is not suitable for expressing the exquisite effect of workmanship, but it is this restriction that shows its unique artistic personality and has a simple, elegant, bold and vigorous style. In the process of tearing paper, there is often a casual and natural charm.