Promotion of Yu County folk paper-cutting during the New Year
The protection of productive methods should be carried out based on the characteristics, laws and conditions of traditional handicrafts. We cannot blindly emphasize profits, output, and costs, and blindly pursue industrialization, marketization, and commercialization. To protect the productive methods of traditional handicrafts, the folk paper-cut craftsmanship originally developed on the basis of local life needs to work hard to return to the "local" context. "The life form and practical functional purpose of folk art determine the efforts that the creation thought of folk art must make to realize this function and purpose. That is, the concept of creation embodies the value orientation of using things for their use, and the creation of things by people. and the value relationship between things and people."
Paper-cutting in folk art was originally produced to meet the direct needs of peoples material life. To adapt to the diversity of life needs, the types and uses of paper-cutting are also very wide. Yuxian paper has played an infinite role in material practicality. The fungible function has an inseparable relationship with the folk life of the local people. The production of paper-cutting in Yu County originates from small family workshops of local farmers, and its purpose is mainly to meet the needs of the producers themselves. This need is closely related to local customs, maintains local traditional customs, and has extremely distinctive regional characteristics. The unity of production and consumption makes folk handicrafts always tend to integrate aesthetic factors into the technical structure with social utilitarian demands as the core, so that they have a simple, cheap, and straightforward technical character. "For the practical function and purpose of providing help to peoples lives and actually improving their lives, the creation of folk art is a creation of sincere and simple life. The content is based on real life, and the form also reflects the reality of life. , fresh and simple style. It originates from the requirements of life, and serves the practicality of life and regulates the cultural and artistic characteristics and style of folk art."
In the past, the windows of rural houses in Yu County were composed of many small wooden square grids, and the panes were covered with white linen paper. For the sake of beauty and celebration, local people had long pasted them on New Years Day and festive wedding days. The custom of window grilles makes Yu County’s traditional paper-cutting occupy the folk custom market during the New Year. In the past, as soon as the twelfth lunar month entered, local paper-cutting artists would put down their farm work andThe whole family participated in making window decorations and sold them in the market. Window grilles are a grand purchase and sale at New Years markets. Artists selling window grilles often fill them one by one with dozens or hundreds of "liangzi" (a kind of wooden window pane used for selling window grilles) attached to the window grilles. A street that attracts local people to watch and shop is quite spectacular. Colorful window grilles are affixed to the window lattice of thousands of households, which has become one of the signs of menopause. Today, Nuanquan Town, Yu County follows the traditional folk custom that the market in Nuanquan Town is held from 10:00 to 13:00 on the first, fifth and seventh day of the lunar calendar. As soon as we enter the twelfth lunar month, the market is very busy, and people rush to the market to "buy new years goods". Among them, the most "new years flavor" of the new years goods are window grilles. There are three window flower stalls with "Liangzi" hanging high and square tables arranged flat in the market.
