➢ This technique is often used in embroidery patterns.
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Meanings
Showing us the way of life of ancient Chinese people
Enriching Chinese cultural life
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In modern times
appear new theme: real life
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Representative of paper cutting art in north China
Shandong folk paper cutting Bold and vigorous(粗犷豪放)
Tang Dynasty
a period of great development
Southern Song Dynasty
appeared artists who took paper cutting as their profession.
Ming and Qing dynasties
became mature and reached the peak
The earliest paper cutting works in China is five pieces of Tuanhua paper cutting in the Northern Dynasty, and they were found in Xinjiang.
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History and Development
Paper cutting
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Catalogue
History and Development
Genres
Methods
Meanings
Uses
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History and Development
The first paper cutting can be tracked back to the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386-581) period.
➢ On the contrary, the engraving is to cut the blank part and preserve the outline.
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Method-Spiny hole
➢ Use a knife or scissors to cut the basic outline on the paper, then use the needle to pierce the pattern, mainly by making the multilayer paper connected, and at the same time see the details in the rough.
Gift flowers, paper cutting attached to cakes, birthday noodles, eggs and other gifts. In chaozhou area of guangdong province, it is called "cake cake" and "fruit flower".
Two Sorts
delicate papercut(精巧型)
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Yangzhou folk paper-cutting
Representative of paper
cutting art in south China
Fourteen hundred years of history
dated from Emperor yangdi of sui dynasty
Shoe flower, used as a paper-cut for the embroidery base of the cloth shoe upper.
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Meanings
Showing Chinese culture to other countries in the world
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Artistic Use
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Window - cut, used for decorating Windows,is common with the north. At the feast people will replace the paper and put a new window, to show used orientation.
beautiful, delicate and exquisite（玲珑的） artistic style
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Methods
Yin and Yang carving
Fold
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Spiny hole
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Method-Fold
This is the most basic kind of paper cutting technique. It can fold the paper to produce a duplicate pattern. The different effects it produces depends on the number and angle of the fold. Folding paper cuts are more symmetrical because of their symmetrical patterns.
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Method--Yin and Yang carving
➢ The basic effect of paper cutting is obtained through the use of yin and Yang lines alone or in combination.
➢ Yin carving is the way to represent the outline of object structure, and to show lines in large blocks.