A complete system of independent shapes in Chinese folk paper-cutting
The Chinese working people are honest in their thoughts and feelings, and they have always maintained a simple and hard-working habit in their lives. What they like is in line with their own thoughts, feelings and life concepts. Therefore, the Chinese folk paper-cut art they created fully expresses their thoughts, feelings and life concepts. Although Chinese folk paper-cutting differs by region, ethnicity and use function, its creators are all working people. They are all under the influence of the Chinese civilization tradition and live on the same land. Many of their living customs and thoughts and feelings are the same. of. These similarities are reflected in folk paper-cutting and become the common characteristics of various folk paper-cutting arts. Through mutual influence, absorption, and integration in the long historical exchanges, the artistic forms of various folk paper-cuts have also formed some common laws. After long-term refinement, these laws, together with those common characteristics, form the unique style of Chinese folk paper-cut art. People summarize these unique styles as: simple, innocent, decorative, etc. But how are these styles reflected in art and how are they formed? This is still a stylistic mystery that needs to be solved.
Nühong, who has mastered the art of folk paper-cutting, and folk artists are very familiar with the properties of materials and the performance of scissors. Scissors are a tool in their daily lives. They use them month after month and year after year, and they have fully understood its functions. temper. The skillful Shanxi folk heroine Chen Gaigai can use a pair of scissors that are not pointed and bite only two-thirds of the cut to make a delicate little rabbit eating a radish on a piece of paper as big as her palm. Rather than saying that she is familiar with the performance of the scissors, it is better to say that the scissors are very obedient under her control. The creators of Chinese folk paper-cutting art overcame the limitations of tools and materials, created various expression methods and pattern forms, and used their own philosophy and aesthetics to establish the plastic art system of Chinese folk paper-cutting. This system "is different from the traditional artistic modeling system of the realist Western academies, and also different from the traditional line modeling of the realist Chinese National Painting Academy; it is opposed to the traditional focus perspective of the Western academies, and it is also different from the scattered traditional Chinese national painting system. point perspective is different”.
