1. First, fold a square origami in half.
2. Then draw the outline of the big tree on the origami.
3. Then draw the parts that need to be cut inside the big tree on the origami.
4. Then cut out the outline of the tree with safety scissors.
5. Then use safety scissors to cut off the part of the tree that needs to be cut.
6. Finally, turn the cut big tree upside down and flatten it, and a big tree will be cut.
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. Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public.
Paper-cut art heritage has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list of China and the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage. The invention of paper was in the Western Han Dynasty BC. Before this, there could be no paper-cutting art, but at that time people used thin materials to make handicrafts by hollowing out and carving.
Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history and widely spread in rural areas of China. Paper-cutting, as its name implies, is to cut paper into various patterns with scissors, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceiling flowers, snuff and so on.
The emergence and spread of this folk art is closely related to the festival customs in rural areas of China. On holidays or weddings, people will stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on white window paper or bright glass windows, walls, doors and lanterns, and the festive atmosphere will be rendered very rich and festive.
The expression language of folk paper-cutting is not a simple and straightforward description, but a kind of token information, which borrows the conventional concept image to pin people's longing for a better life and expectation for good luck and happiness. All kinds of simple and grotesque paper-cut shapes contain frankness and beauty, which come from the original visual thinking mode and folk aesthetic concept.