The reflection of folk characteristics in Chinese folk paper-cutting art techniques
Folk paper-cutting art is produced and developed in folk customs and life. After our country "began to make writing, it was to wear clothes", the level of material civilization and spiritual civilization has continued to improve. With the continuous emergence and increase of peoples aesthetic needs and customs and etiquette, clothes and crowns are gradually becoming the carrier of status and etiquette. In interpersonal interactions, in order to meet this need, clothing makers try to cut some simple and practical patterns. To decorate clothes, crowns or other utensils used. Because it is impossible to cut it satisfactorily at once, in order to save fabric, some thin objects such as larger plant leaves and bark are used to cut it, and then replaced with fabric for making patterns. The custom of "substitute patterns" and cutting patterns from cloth is still spread among the people today. It is used to replace other shear materials. The upper aristocratic decorative patterns are made of gold foil. It should be pointed out that after the advent of paper, it was more convenient than paper. With the rapid development of gold plus two L_ technology, the thickness of this gold foil was extremely thin. In fact, it was made of gold. Gold paper made of gold paper. This kind of gold paper (foil) is very suitable for shearing. Because of its fine texture and strong flexibility, it can cut fine patterns. Picture (l) is the "Four Foils" unearthed from the Jinsha site in Chengdu. Birds around the sun" decoration. Domestic experts believe that the Jinsha site is the central site of the Sichuan Basin from the late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and is likely to be another capital site after Kuixingdui. From this, we can know that the scissoring technology of the working people in our country developed and matured very early. Because of this, in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were exquisite paper-cuts such as "Monkey Tuanhua" and "Deer Tuanhua".
The lives and customs of different periods, different regions, and different groups give the collection of folk paper-cut patterns different characteristics of life and folk customs. From the "Four Birds Around the Sun" decoration, "Monkey Flowers" to the current paper-cutting patterns circulating in rural areas, folk paper-cutting has obvious characteristics of life and folk customs.
