The current situation of Zhongyang folk paper-cutting
Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in Luliang area and the most popular traditional folk art. Paper-cutting is welcomed by the general public because of its easily available materials, low cost, immediate effects, and wide adaptability. Nowadays, not to mention ordinary farmers and grassroots worker families, even in those magnificent star-rated hotels, pavilions, booths and clubs, folk paper-cutting has its own place. As the most representative of Luliang folk art, Zhongyang folk paper-cutting has been the most beautiful and unique landscape in the Luliang area from ancient times to the present.
Paper-cutting is most suitable for grassroots women in rural and urban areas to make in their spare time. It can be used as a practical item in daily life and used inside and outside the house to decorate walls, doors, windows, mirrors, counters, lanterns, etc. It can be used to embellish various utensils and supplies for wedding celebrations and indoor display and decoration items for newlyweds' rooms; it can be used to beautify the daily lives of common people, and can also be used as gifts for relatives and friends during festivals, or can be taken to the market. Sell ??online or discuss and communicate with peers to improve each others skills. In the past, Zhongyang folk paper-cutting was usually completed by rural women and girls after the busy farming season in autumn and winter or during New Years Day and wedding celebrations, because paper-cutting is one of the handicraft skills that every rural girl must master.
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To win peoples admiration and be appreciated by neighbors and relatives, rural girls must learn to cut paper. Whether you can learn paper-cutting tutorials and how good you are at cutting are often used as criteria to evaluate whether a woman is clever and can choose a satisfactory husband. The changes of the times have caused changes in peoples life, art and appreciation interests. However, now, in order to better adapt to the needs of life and the market, Zhongyang folk paper-cutting is used more for decoration, strengthening its role as gifts, works of art and The artistic function of life embellishment is not only because its content has become more colorful with the development of the times, but also has the rich connotation of the traditional folk culture in Luliang area. The main reason is that Zhongyang folk paper-cutting pays more and more attention to inheritance, digestion and It absorbs the characteristics of the related brother and sister arts and develops it into an art form that best represents the characteristics of folk art in the Luliang area. It then goes out of the Luliang Mountains and becomes a cultural carrier on the stage of foreign exchanges. In the new era, Zhongyang folk paper-cutting inherits the style and knife skills.On the basis of the art of the predecessors, we pursue the knife to follow our heart, make bold moves, do whatever we want, and get carried away. We pay attention to the creation form from law to lawlessness, from order to disorder, striving for perfection, digesting, absorbing, and innovating the traditional essence of folk art. Produce a new type of paper-cut that has a completely new look, combines national characteristics with regional characteristics, and has distinctive characteristics of the times. Now, with the widespread penetration of market economy in cities and villages, Zhongyangs paper-cutting has become a means for some local people to develop the economy and make a fortune, and it has also become a carrier for local people to display their spiritual pursuits and aesthetic values.
Today, the commercialization awareness of Zhongyang folk paper-cut works has been strengthened, and the art form and characteristics of the times have been strengthened. Therefore, the people of Zhongyang love paper-cutting. Their enthusiasm and enthusiasm for creating paper-cut window grilles are unprecedentedly high. The artistic atmosphere for creating paper-cutting is unprecedentedly strong. Various art exhibitions are emerging one after another. Among them, the exchange, exhibition and sales activities of paper-cutting art activities are unprecedentedly grand. At the same time, Zhongyangs economic development also promoted the commercialization process of paper-cutting. Integrating rich historical and cultural resources, focusing on historical celebrities, historical relics, historical culture, etc., to develop unique cultural tourism is the basic idea for Zhongyang to develop culture, economy, and tourism. At present, the people of Zhongyang are using their unique history and culture and red culture to promote the excellent culture of Zhongyang and promote the art of paper-cutting to the world.
