Paper-cut flowers bloom in Yu County, Hebei Province
Recently, Yu County, the hometown of Chinas paper-cutting culture, has become the focus of peoples attention because the first Chinese Paper-cutting Art Festival is being held here. Excellent paper-cutting artists from all over the country came to Yu County with paper-cutting works with their own hometown culture and customs. They hope to promote local paper-cutting culture while conducting a process of exchange and integration with paper-cutting cultures of other styles and characteristics. , thus making its own contribution to promoting the development of Chinese paper-cut culture. Yu County, Hebei Province has now become a city of paper-cutting. Walking in the crowded paper-cutting street, you can feel the richness of the folk culture contained in paper-cutting.
In October 2009, Chinese paper-cutting was officially included in UNESCOs "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". In order to better promote Chinese paper-cutting culture and promote Chinese paper-cutting to art-loving people around the world, Yu County, Hebei Province, "the last paper-cutting tribe in China", held my countrys first Chinese Paper-cutting Art Festival. The pointillist paper-cutting in Yu County, Hebei Province has a history of more than 200 years. The paper-cutting in Yu County is also the only one in the country that uses positive carving as a supplement and negative carving as the main one. At the same time, the paper-cutting culture in Yuxian County is very intact, and paper-cutting artists are emerging in endlessly. Therefore, Yuxian County has the reputation of "Look at China for paper-cutting in the world, and look at Yuxian for Chinese paper-cutting."
Paper-cut culture shows a trend of diversified development. In the past, the content of paper-cut works was relatively simple, mainly describing the content of "good fortune, wealth, longevity and happiness". The works of paper-cut artists were mainly produced for street stall retail, and the sale of paper-cut works was only to increase some income. But now, paper-cutting artists are constantly enriching the content of paper-cutting works according to the needs of the market, from the auspiciousness of the past to landscapes and figures, etc., and the size of the works is not limited to the traditional window grille-style production, but towards large and super-large The size of these works has developed, so the price of these works has also changed from ten or twenty yuan in the past to tens of thousands of yuan now.
