Protection and development of folk paper-cutting in Yu County
As batches of old folk paper-cutting artists pass away one after another, how to protect and preserve their paper-cutting art as soon as possible has become an urgent problem to be solved. In recent years, the Chinese Folk Paper-cut Association and various conservation centers have gone deep into the countryside to do a lot of information collection and conservation work through images and sounds. However, folk artists are scattered among the people and cannot be counted. Moreover, they are generally older, so it is inevitable that some of them cannot be found. Furthermore, the staff and financial resources involved in this rescue and protection project are very limited. Therefore, this kind of protection method also requires the participation of society and the government, giving full play to the role of grassroots governments and mobilizing all mobilizable forces to participate in this urgent protection project. middle. In addition, the emergence of photography and video technology has provided strong technical support for the protection of paper-cut art. Through sound and image preservation technology, the creative process and creative experience of some folk artists can be saved into video materials and classified and organized, paper-cut creation software can be produced, a database can be established, and finally a digital paper-cut art museum can be built. In this way, the art of paper-cutting can be protected in stages through computer multimedia technology, and it can also facilitate the dissemination of paper-cutting art.
At present, the traditional Yuxian paper-cutting that still exists in our social life and continues to play an aesthetic and emotional role, and still has inheritors but is on the verge of extinction, should be the focus of our protection and seek development on the premise of protection. The main content and focus of the living protection of intangible cultural heritage is to inherit and restore those traditional skills and art forms. As an inheritor, you should maintain and use traditional skills and make products in strict accordance with traditional crafts, materials, shapes, and patterns. Inheritors The mission and mission is to restore and inherit. At present, according to the traditional inheritance method, relying on the vast number of paper-cutting artists among the people, this living folk art form is inherited and protected through oral and heart-to-heart teaching and from generation to generation. At this stage, this method of inheritance and protection is not only cultivated among the people through folk paper-cutting artists teaching their apprentices. Some schools and scientific research institutes are also setting up different paper-cutting training classes or research classes according to levels, inviting paper-cutting artists to join. Schools, such as artist Zhou Shuying, once gave students folk paper-cutting classes at the Central Academy of Fine Arts to improve their artistic accomplishments in the folk paper-cutting art. Various paper-cutting art associations across the country rely on governments at all levels to organize various seminars, paper-cutting art competitions, etc., allowing qualified folk artists such as Gao Dianliang, Jiao Xinde, Zhou Guang, etc. to regularly exchange creative experiences, enriching and strengthening the protection and research of folk paper-cutting craftsmanship.
In addition, grassroots cultural stations and cultural centers in various places should regularly hold various forms of paper-cutting competitions while collecting and organizing various materials, so that paper-cutting can attract more and more peoples attention. We should also advocate local people to pay attention to their own folk festivals, advocate people to restore traditional ways of celebrating festivals, and advocate people to restore and retain traditional customs during traditional festivals, so that Yu County paper-cutting, an art that originated from the folk, can return to the people and integrate into the people. in life. Only through various means of protection can the living art of Yu County paper-cutting art truly "live" and "move", so that the regional characteristics, artistic characteristics and aesthetic taste of Yuxian paper-cutting art can continue to be maintained among the people. Unique vitality and charm.
