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Paper Cutting is one of the most popular folk art in China. According to archaeological record, its history could date back to the sixth century AD, but people believed that the actually start time of it may be earlier hundreds years than the record. China has already paid more attention on protecting those non-material cultural heritages, and Paper Cutting was approved to the first batch of national non-material cultural heritage list by Chinese State Council for its deep culture on May 20, 2006.
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What is Paper Cutting? It is a hollow-out art, which could give people a hollow feeling and artistic enjoyment from visual. Paper Cutting commonly used in religious ceremonies, decoration, art and other aspects. In the past time, people often like to make various patterns and figures with paper to burn them during funeral or bury with the death people. Beside, Paper Cutting is also one part of ceremony, and it was usually used for worship of ancestors and gods. Now, Paper Cutting is more used for decoration, such as walls, windows, doors, pillars, mirrors, lamps and lanterns decoration, etc.
Paper Cutting is popular among people, may because its materials are easy to get (paper, scissors or carvers), low cost, effective result and wide adaptation. While it is the most suitable for rural women to produce in leisure time both for practical things and beautify the life. Actually, Paper Cutting is usually made by rural women, but we see the professional Paper Cutting artists are mostly men.
Paper Cutting in the early time is all hand-made, but now, some places use machines instead. And there are two common methods to make it, one is cut the patterns with scissors, and the other is engraved with carver. Compared with the first method, the second has an obvious advantage that could engrave many papers one time.
Paper Cutting could be widely seen in China, even it has already formed different styles. Paper Cutting not only shows the people's aesthetic interest, but contains the deep psychology of the nation. The particular features of this Chinese folk art is worthy for people to study.
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