Although founder county has beautiful mountains and rivers and fertile land, its climate is harsh. Before the reform and opening up, information and transportation were not smooth. These unique natural ecological environments determine the habits and customs of people living here in production, labor and daily life. Manchu and other ethnic minorities, as well as foreign Han immigrants, must change their original living habits to adapt to nature. They survive in change, develop in survival, and even their cultural traditions, artistic styles, religious beliefs and national characteristics adapt to evolution in conflict and integration, and finally form a unique regional feature.
2. Theme and content
The reason why works of art have their spiritual value is because of the author's emotion and love in the process of creation. Founder paper-cut group is dominated by women, day after day, year after year, it is their family and work life that are emotional and give all their true love. Therefore, the theme of Founder paper-cutting mostly reflects the real life of Founder working people and shows all aspects of local folk customs.
3. Group nature
Based on the unique geographical and climatic characteristics of founder county, the long winter slack time provides a good cultural space for people to communicate, and then forms a cultural group.
Working women in founder county have been deprived of culture for a long time, so they can sit on the kang and learn to exchange needlework skills while pulling their parents' shortcomings. Paper-cutting is the simplest folk art. Even children running around like to lie on the edge of the kang and pick up scissors to cut out a wet nurse or a string of lesbian people. Over time, in Fangzheng area, paper-cutting skills have formed a wide creative atmosphere in the inheritance and dissemination. Founder women use paper-cutting to convey their love for work and life and beautify their lives.
4. Inheritance of life rheology
The special development of founder county's humanistic society has enabled Founder people to inherit the cultural traditions of different nationalities and groups. Different cultures communicate, understand, cooperate and blend with each other in this special land of Founder, and gradually form the unique cultural spirit and emotion of Founder. The unique way of thinking, traditional values and aesthetic thoughts of black land people have become an indispensable cultural gene in the inheritance and development of Founder Black Land culture. This gene developed in the process of social, economic and cultural changes, and it has obvious dynamic changes, and it is also the blood of founder wisdom and folk cultural spirit.
Folk paper-cut lovers in founder county rely on word of mouth to pass on the unique traditional cultural genes from generation to generation by means of paper-cutting, guarding the spiritual home of this black land.
5, black land character
The vast and fertile black land, like its mother, has nurtured generations of founder people. Working people have also devoted their efforts and sweat to this black land. People of all ethnic groups from all regions have deeply planted the roots of life in this black land, sucking their mothers' milk on the black land and thriving. The integration of man and land forms the harmony between man and nature. Founder's rough, bold, innocent, enthusiastic, close to nature, love of life and other personality characteristics are all formed in this black land. This personality characteristic is the personality characteristic of Founder culture as a whole, and it is also the personality characteristic of Founder paper-cutting art, and it is the soul on which Founder paper-cutting art relies for its inheritance and development.
6. Characteristics of scientific language
The creative steps of Founder's paper-cut works: firstly, the main contents of the works are cut freehand with simple and rough lines, and the whole space is boldly divided to form a complete and atmospheric structural layout; Then according to the demand, the parts are finely and smoothly cut, and a work with bold shape, natural agility and both form and spirit is born. It is similar to "bold ink dropping and careful cleaning" emphasized in traditional Chinese painting.
7. Unique scissors
Founder's paper-cut works are mainly hand-cut, and the exquisite cutting is a must, thanks to the unique scissors held by paper-cut artists. Most of them are made by paper-cutting artists themselves. After polishing and shaping, these scissors are more exquisite and convenient, which is conducive to the change of cutting methods in creation.