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Chinese Paper Cuttings is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, Paper Cuttings has a broad mass base, blends into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Its inherited visual image and styling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, life ideals, and aesthetic tastes of the general public. It has multiple social values such as cognition, education, meaning, emotion, entertainment, and communication.
On May 20, 2006, Paper Cuttings art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
At the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO held from September 28 to October 2, 2009, the Chinese Paper Cuttings project declared by China was included in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". Paper Cuttings was invented in the Western Han Dynasty BC, before which the art of Paper Cuttings could not have appeared. But at that time, people used thin materials to make handicrafts by hollowing out carving techniques, which had been popular long before paper appeared. That is, carving, carving, carving and cutting techniques were used to cut patterns on gold foil, leather, silk and even leaves. In the Records of the Historian, Jian Tong and his younger brother were recorded that in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of Zhou used wutong leaves to cut into "Gui" to give his younger brother and granted Ji Yu the title of marquis in the Tang Dynasty. During the Warring States Period, leather engraving was used (one of the cultural relics unearthed from Chu Tomb No.1 in Jianglingwangshan, Hubei), and silver foil engraving (one of the cultural relics unearthed from the Warring States Site in Guwei Village, Huixian County, Henan), all of which are the same as Paper Cuttings. Their appearance has laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk Paper Cuttings.
Every festival or wedding celebration, people will stick beautiful and bright Paper Cuttings on the windows, walls, doors and lanterns of their homes, and the festival atmosphere will be set off even more intensely. In rural areas, Paper Cuttings is usually done by women and girls. In the past, Paper Cuttings was almost a handicraft that every girl must master, and it was also a standard for people to judge the bride. The Paper Cuttings art in the north and south of China can express all kinds of emotions in life through a pair of scissors and a piece of Character Paper Cuttings.
10 for the Spring Festival
15.00 yuan
New Year's Day 8 sheets
12.00 yuan
Lantern Festival 10 sheets
15.00 yuan
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