1, take a square piece of red paper, fold it in half and then fold it in half, that is, divide it into four parts.

2. The folded red paper is open to the right hand, and it is painted with a pattern of red happy characters.

3, cut down along the pattern, the first red hi word is relatively simple, no difficulty.

4. Unfold the red paper, and beautiful double happiness will appear, with heart-shaped patterns, interlocking and heart-to-heart.

5. The origami method is the same as above. After folding, draw a pattern of red characters. This time, the pattern inside turned into a red lantern.

6, cut down along the pattern, the ear of the red lantern is easy to be cut, so be sure to cut it carefully.

7. After unfolding, it is a double happiness character embedded with four lanterns. Finally, I didn't handle the lantern ears properly, and some places were broken. Be careful when cutting this step.

Brief introduction of paper cutting:

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, which is an important part of various folk activities. It 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 the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28th to June 54381October 2nd, 2009, China announced that the Chinese paper-cutting project was included in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".