National awards that Founder Paper-cutting has received over the years
Fangzheng paper-cutting has a wide range of themes, unique style, and a strong flavor of life. It shows the black soil culture with its delicate and smooth lines, exquisite and elegant ideas, exaggerated and concise images, and novel and strange techniques. The vast number of paper-cut art workers expressed their pursuit of a better life and their love for paper-cut art, actively explored and innovated, created a large number of fine works to participate in competitions, and won many provincial, municipal and national awards.
In August 1988, Fangzheng County won the title of Outstanding Paper-cut Art Creation Group in Heilongjiang Province. In February 1989, Fangzhengs paper-cut work "Going to the Market" won the third prize in the first China Paper-cut Competition held by the China Artists Association. In March 1990, Fangzhengs paper-cutting works won the first, second, and third prizes in the National Paper-cutting Awards, and some of his works were published in the "Chinese Paper-cutting Art" newspaper. In June, eight of Fangzhengs paper-cutting authors were rated as provincial outstanding paper-cutting workers. In 1993, the Ministry of Culture named Fangzheng County as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art" (paper-cutting), and it was awarded by the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Culture in the same period. In May 2000, at the First Spring Ice City Literary and Art Creation Competition in Longjiang in the 21st Century, Fangzheng won the Gold Award for Paper-cutting Tutoring and the Outstanding Organization Award. From 2001 to June 2002, at the third and fourth Harbin Folk Art Expo, Fangzheng Paper-cutting won the Group Award and the Outstanding Organization Award. In 2002, it won the Heilongjiang Province Social, Cultural, Educational and Scientific Research Achievement Award. In May 2003, Fangzheng Paper-cutting won the Harbin City "Sun Island Cup" Literary and Art Creation, Recitation Competition Group Award, and Outstanding Organizational Counseling Award. In October, Ni Xiumei, the author of Founder Paper-cutting, was awarded by the China Enterprise Culture Promotion Association of the Ministry of Culture, the Traditional Culture Committee, the Chinese Minority Arts Promotion Association, the Chinese Arts and Crafts Society, the Folk Arts and Crafts Society, the Heilongjiang Provincial Folk Literature and Artists Association, and the Provincial Paper-cutting Professional Committee. : Title of "New China Paper-cutting Artist". In August 2004, at the Fifth Folklore Expo in Harbin, Founder Literary and Art Circles won the Outstanding Organization Award and the ‘Top Ten Fine Products, Top Ten Artists’ award. In July 2005, the first China "Crane Cup" Paper-cutting Competition,Fangzheng paper-cutting won first prize, third prize, excellence award and group award respectively. In January 2006, Fangzheng Paper-cutting was invited to participate in the Heilongjiang Culture Winter Folk Literature Competition sponsored by the Heilongjiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Heilongjiang Folk Literature and Art Association, and won the gold medal and innovation award respectively. In March 2007, Fangzhengs paper-cut work "Northeastern Chinese Cabbage" series participated in the China Yangzhou Paper-cut Art Expo and won the gold medal. In November, 28 works in the series "Snow Elf Olympic Style" won the gold medal at the 8th China Art Festival in Wuhan and the 2nd China International Paper-cutting Art Exhibition "Return of National Style". In January 2008, the Humanities Olympics China Tour - the 2008 Third International (Beijing) Paper-cut Art Expo "Northeastern Style" Ethnic Minority Paper-cut Competition, Fangzheng Paper-cut won the Golden Scissor Award, Silver Award, and Excellence Award. In May, the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Heilongjiang Provincial Peoples Government awarded Comrade Ni Xiumei, the author of Founders paper-cutting, the title of Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts in Heilongjiang Province. Fangzhengs paper-cut works such as "Our Familys Auspicious Bird", "Pisces Playing with Lotus", "Family Fragrance", "Five Continents Xiang Dove", "New Northeastern Soybean Fragrance", "Elf Fruit" and other artistic masterpieces have won the Chinese Arts and Crafts Excellence Award. Gold, silver and bronze awards. In March 2007, the provincial government announced that Founder Paper-cutting was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. On August 16, 2008, Harbin Daily published the first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage lists, and Founder paper-cutting was included in the folk art category. On January 30, 2008, the 30th issue (total issue 4571) of "China Culture News" was listed in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the 16th China Harbin Economic and Trade Fair in 2005, "Heilongjiang Province Art, Photography, Folk Crafts Exhibition", Vice Premier Wu Yi of the State Council, accompanied by Bai Yaguang, Director of the Provincial Department of Culture and other leaders, visited the Founder Paper-cutting Exhibition Area. On November 11, 2008, Provincial Party Committee Secretary Ji Bingxuan, Harbin Municipal Party Committee Secretary Du Yuxin, and Mayor Zhang Xiaolian visited Founder to inspect and praise Founders paper-cutting.
Fangzheng paper-cutting bathes in the glory of the Party and is cared for by fellow villagers. Through the continuous pursuit of paper-cutting authors, Founder paper-cutting, a wonderful flower in the paper-cutting art garden, will become more dazzling and fragrant forever.
