Qingyang paper-cut was listed in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list in 2004.
In Qingyang, on holidays, women marry their daughters and celebrate their birthdays at the full moon. Rural women have to clean the court, paste the walls, cut paper and make window grilles. Stick red and green paper-cut flowers on window frames, kang wai, walls and door leaves to make your room colorful and prosperous. These paper-cut flowers have different names because of their different positions. Door flowers are attached to doors, window flowers are attached to windows, surrounding flowers are attached to kang walls, and ceiling flowers are attached to ceilings. Walking into Qingyang farmyard, paper-cut flowers pasted on the wall can be seen everywhere, and the paper-cut flowers blackened by fireworks are firmly pasted on the window frames and kang walls of some uninhabited caves. Paper-cutting is as essential as whole grains in Qingyang. Where people live, there are paper-cut flowers. Paper-cutting has become the spiritual pillar for rural women in Qingyang to beautify their lives and express their feelings. Windows, doors, kiln walls and kang wai have become an artistic world for women to show their skills.
Qingyang paper-cut originates from life and pays attention to interest. It is the crystallization of working women's production and living customs and cultural inheritance, and it is the flower watered by their love. Mr. Jin, a famous folklorist, called paper-cut artists "real artists". He also said, "Qingyang paper-cutting provides us with extremely rich new topics in anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnology, folklore, aesthetics, art and other fields." A traditional Longdong folk paper-cutting is not only paper-cutting, but also the crystallization of thousands of years of historical and cultural traditions of the Chinese nation. "