Chinese Paper Cutting

Paper-cut, as a kind of Chinese folk art, is created by working people to satisfy their own material and spiritual demands. It equals any other traditional art in terms of the long history of its popularity and wide range. Taken as the sculpting art, Paper-cutting is the mirror of working people’s ideal and faith, expressing the peasants’ joy and sorrow. In the merry and joyful atmosphere during such folk activities as rituals and memorial ceremonies, it’s widely used to decorate festive utensils or doors and windows, or pasted on colored paper kites, or serves as a sample mould for embroidery. By and large, paper-cutting is closely linked to folk life and embellishes every aspect of life. The richly varied subjects and contents, covering beautiful myths, legends, drama characters, flowers, birds, fish and other creatures in nature, are nearly all-inclusive and created in hope of happiness, good fortune, blissful marriage and harmonious family reunion. The brilliant application of homophonic mode implies further and profound meanings and connotation.

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