Fuyang paper-cutting representative artist

After Cheng Jianli passed away in early 2006, in order to better protect and inherit the art of Fuyang paper-cutting, the cultural departments of Fuyang area and Anhui Province established 4 people, including his son and apprentice, as the intangible cultural heritage of Fuyang paper-cutting and Anhui Province. Inheritor. They are: Zhu Kunying (deceased), Liu Jicheng, Cheng Xinghong and Wu Qingping.

Zhu Kunying: Male, (1922-2008) art worker, former teacher and deputy director of the cultural center. In 2007, he was awarded the Intangible Cultural Inheritor of Fuyang Paper-cutting in Anhui Province. He has learned from many folk artists, such as Wang Jiahe and Cheng Jianli. His paper-cut works not only absorb the nutrients of local art and enrich the creation of paper-cut, but also integrate the characteristics of traditional Chinese painting and printmaking, using knives instead of cutting, making paper-cutting a new art form. The comic strip "Wolf Fighting" (the paper-cut work "Wolf Fighting") was published by Anhui Peoples Publishing House and became a relatively rare paper-cut comic. He is also the author of the book "Collection of Zhu Kunyings Best Paper-cuts", which includes the article "How to Carve Paper-cuts", which provides a detailed summary of Fuyang paper-cut carving techniques and a paper-cut song.

Wolf Fighting (Part) Zhu Kunying

Liu Jicheng: Male, born in Taihe, Fuyang in 1943, former director of Fuyang Folk Art Studio and deputy director of the Paper-cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association. In 2007, he was named the first Arts and Crafts Master of Anhui Province, and in the same year, he was named the Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor of Fuyang Paper-cutting in Anhui Province. He is also the boss of Fuyang paper-cutting artists. He discovered many Fuyang paper-cutting artists, such as Cheng Jianli and the three Dai sisters. He has organized the works of paper-cutting artists to participate in exhibitions many times. He has made outstanding contributions to the discovery, organization and creation of paper-cutting in Fuyang. At the same time, he actively learned from folk artists. The "Dream of Red Mansions" he collaborated with the paper-cut artist Wang Jiahe was used as a gift to the United Nations.

Cheng Xinghong: Male, born in 1969 in Chengwei Village, Zhengwu Town, Yingdong District, Fuyang City, farmer. The son of the late paper-cutting art master Cheng Jianli, he is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Fuyang Paper-cutting in Anhui Province. The work inherits his fathers paper-cut style, which is rough and simple yet delicate and graceful, bold and exaggerated, simple and simple. Representative works include "Fully Loaded""Return" and so on. (Paper-cut work "Returning Full of Loads")

Returning with a full load Cheng Xinghong

Wu Qingping: Female, born in 1972, from Yingzhou District, Fuyang City. Fuyang paper-cutting inheritor of Anhui intangible cultural heritage. He used to be a kindergarten teacher and is now a full-time paper-cutting artist in Fuyang. He is good at creating huge paper-cuts, such as "Promoting Chinese Filial Piety and Praising a Harmonious Age", which is 60 meters long.

On the basis of inheriting the traditional graphic language, these paper-cut inheritors boldly innovated and integrated other art categories such as prints, woodcuts, traditional Chinese paintings and other arts, making Fuyang paper-cutting a novel form.