Yu County folk paper-cutting today
Since the 1990s, as the window decoration market in Yu County has continued to expand, the county-run paper-cutting factory and the Nanzhangzhuang village-run paper-cutting factory can no longer meet the market demand, and many window decoration artists have also started their own businesses. Own paper cutting factory. In addition to contributing to Yu Countys rural poverty alleviation and prosperity, these individual paper-cutting factories have also become the processing base for paper-cutting products nationwide, making great contributions to the prosperity of Chinas paper-cutting industry.
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In the new century, according to the objective requirements of the development of Yu Countys paper-cut market economy under the new situation, few artists anymore carve window grilles, but vigorously develop modern handicrafts of paper-cutting. It was during this period that the coexistence of modern handicrafts of paper-cutting and window grilles appeared. Yuxian paper-cutting market, and gradually replaced this cultural phenomenon. Among them, the patterns of window grilles are based on traditional auspicious patterns, flowers, animals, and opera characters. One of the window flower stalls in Nuanquan Town’s big market still has cranes, magpies and other old-fashioned items, which are rare to see now. In addition, there are many traditional patterns that are deformed from the brick and wood carving patterns used in local residential decoration. The patterns of pointillism paper-cutting in modern handicraft paper-cutting are mainly traditional patterns such as flowers, zodiac signs, opera masks, "good fortune, longevity, happiness and wealth", etc., which are innovatively designed into paper-cutting patterns with a more contemporary feel. Compared with the former two, the single-color paper-cut patterns in modern handicraft paper-cutting are more extensive, such as those designed with the theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, domestic great rivers and mountains, historical sites, mythical and legendary figures, classic literary masterpieces, and even foreign Santa Claus. There are also some designs based on abstract transformations of traditional flowers, animals, opera masks and other themes, as well as landscape and character patterns designed based on foreign landscape oil paintings and drawing on the three-dimensional expression technique of colored paper-cutting.
In addition, Yuxian paper-cutting is also richer in form, which can be divided into "single picture" (each picture is independent), "double picture" (in a symmetrical form), "multiple pictures" or complete sets ( For example, a drama composed of four people, "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" composed of eight paintings, "Twelve Zodiac Signs" composed of twelve paintings, "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" composed of twenty-four paintingsquo;, etc.), "corner flower" (a pattern composed of four triangles attached to the corner of the window, or the whole is divided into four or eight pieces, cut and pasted), "large-format" (mostly using patterns for symmetry, and mostly focusing on composition) (circular) and "huge" (mostly used in large scenes such as exhibition venues and squares, and the composition is mostly rectangular).
