Colorful paper cutting theme
Since paper-cutting is a kind of folk art, the local characteristics of the theme and style are very obvious. The most commonly used themes of Chinese folk paper-cutting are roughly as follows:
Poultry and livestock: In an agricultural society, poultry and livestock are closely related to people’s lives, and are naturally easily reflected in folk art paper-cut works.
Flower and bird patterns: Folk art is inseparable from the flowers and birds that people love in daily life. The more popular flowers include peonies, lotus, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, narcissus, peach blossoms, etc.; the favorite birds are mostly magpies, swallows, Cranes, peacocks, etc.
Auspicious patterns: Auspiciousness is a typical spiritual aesthetic direction in feudal society, and has always affected the psychological aesthetic needs of the modern public. Auspicious paper-cut patterns are naturally the main theme of folk art. For expressions of auspiciousness, some are homophones, such as "fish" representing "surplus", "bat" representing "blessing", etc.; some are allegorical, such as "pomegranate symbolizes "many children", "pine crane" represents "longevity", etc. < /p>
Animal themes: Animal themes include cultural animals and realistic animal themes. For example, dragon, phoenix, and twelve zodiac signs belong to cultural animal themes; lion, tiger, panda, goldfish, butterfly, etc. belong to peoples favorite animal themes.
Folk culture: themes that express peoples various social and cultural activities, as well as various other cultural characteristics. Such as the clothing of various ethnic groups, gatherings, especially dances, dragon dances, lion dances, or peoples music, chess, calligraphy and painting and other themes.
Character stories: Historical figures or legendary stories are often used to make paper-cut patterns. Such as characters of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Dream of Red Mansions, beauties, Chang'e flying to the moon, Eight Immortals crossing the sea, etc. are all very popular themes.
