Folk paper-cutting that integrates Manchu and Chinese cultures in Northeast China

Folk paper-cutting that integrates Manchu and Chinese cultures in Northeast China

Theme Features

1. Graphic symbols closely related to Manchu traditional primitive witchcraft worship are an important theme of Northeastern paper-cutting.

2. Under the influence of the "spread of Western paper from the east", the culture and artistic style of the Central Plains gradually merged with the traditional graphic symbols of the Manchu people.

Style

Northeastern folk paper-cut patterns are mostly rough and simple, with distinctive Manchu characteristics and flavor of life. With the influx of people from Shandong who "traveled into the Guandong", the culture of the Central Plains was brought into this once cultural desert. While influencing the local paper-cutting style in Northeast China, it also brought the cultural connotation of paper-cutting from the mainland to the local area, forming a simultaneous yin and yang. , a Northeastern paper-cut style that combines hardness and softness, and combines roughness with fineness.

Expression techniques

Heilongjiang folk paper-cutting mostly uses the "silhouette flowering" (i.e., incised) method to cut out the image. It is blackened with pine smoke and lined with colorful paper on the back. The contrast is strong. The lines of the paper-cutting are generally strong and powerful, forming a clear division. It is also relatively overall, with a distinct Northeastern snowy style.