The significance of research on Chinese folk paper-cutting
As one of the oldest folk arts, paper-cutting has its own formation and development. Tracing back to the origin of paper-cutting, primitive humans in the Paleolithic period used sharp tools to cut animal skins, and the carving art of drilling holes and carving various patterns into shells, animal bones and stones. They all gave birth to the early vocabulary of paper-cutting, which can be said to be the original prototype of paper-cutting. Before the invention of paper, people used leaf, Juan, leather, gold foil and other pick materials to make hollow carvings and crafts. This non-paper paper-cutting activity has become popular. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when the papermaking industry and papermaking technology developed significantly, the price of paper was relatively low, and paper-cutting began to be practiced among the people, and paper-cutting in the true sense appeared. Rock paintings, womens decorations, embroidery, paintings, porcelain patterns, and other sister arts that have the same origin as paper-cutting interact with each other. The use of paper-cutting in the decoration of traditional clothing, the engraving of blue calico, and the embroidered tapestry patterns are It reflected the social economy, textile technology level and artistic aesthetic standards at that time.
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Paper-cutting is the direct inheritance of primitive culture. Paper-cutting is the most national and popular narrative language method in folk art, which clearly reflects the most basic psychological characteristics of the working people. Aesthetic taste and values ??are important carriers of folk culture. Paper-cutting is used in logos, book binding, packaging, clothing, animation, interior decoration and other design fields. Traditional folk paper-cutting has entered the modern design field from rural areas. However, due to the impact of global economic integration and industrialization on the commodity economy, the development of folk paper-cutting is facing crises and challenges in the context of globalization. In China, which is developing rapidly, the culture and art of different countries are interpenetrating and influencing each other. Peoples lifestyles are changing subtly. In the fast-paced lifestyle, the value of traditional art has been ignored, and many traditional national cultures have been abandoned and forgotten. What kind of social and economic foundation produces what kind of life concept, and what is reflected in clothing is a style of the times. No matter how much progress a country makes, it will never break away from its unique ethnic characteristics. Paper-cutting is the material expression of my countrys folk customs and local culture and is the material cultural heritage shared by mankind. The sense of the times itself contains a lot of nationality. How to keep paper-cutting with the times, introduce the new, apply national elements to fashion, explore the application value of paper-cutting in modern art, and make the application of paper-cutting conform to social and economic development.The development of fashion with a "national sense of the times" is an important topic we need to discuss.
