Chinese paper-cutting art and the history of Yuxian paper-cutting
Chinas paper-cut art is a folk handicraft that gradually developed after the invention and development of iron smelting technology and papermaking technology in the Han Dynasty. It uses ordinary scissors and carving knives. As a tool, paper can be seen everywhere as a carrier. With the changes of history, it has become increasingly prosperous and enriched and influenced peoples lives.
From the initial use of scissors and carving knives to cut or carve "people win", "flower wins" and "fangsheng" on silk or thin metal sheets, to later generations, gradually cutting and carving "ribbon cutting" on paper products , "cutting wins", paper-cutting has always been related to the sacred activities of the feudal period, such as summoning spirits, praying for children, worshiping ancestors, praying for blessings, etc. Paper-cutting art evolved from simple human shapes, flowers and birds, and geometric shapes during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and gradually developed into various symbolic themes including phoenixes, ribbon birds, etc. in the Tang Dynasty. It evolved from a monotonous understanding and memory of the external world. and depiction, developed to the need for emotional communication and conveying feelings, folk paper-cut artists gradually integrated real-life images closely related to life and production into the creation of paper-cut themes. With the development of Chinese culture for thousands of years, the art of paper-cutting has accumulated and accumulated in the historical trend, and finally formed a folk art with various meanings.
Yuxian paper-cutting is the most distinctive genre among hundreds of Chinese paper-cutting arts. In its more than 200 years of development history, it has evolved from legends originally originating from embroidery patterns in the Yuxian area to the third and third centuries of the last century. In the 1940s, a large number of outstanding folk paper-cutting artists appeared in Yuxian County. Yuxian paper-cutting products were sold in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin and other places. At the beginning of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, Yuxian paper-cutting continued to prosper and develop, and many paper-cutting artists began to work in Yuxian County. Zhangzhuang and Yuzhou Town in the south of the village successively established paper-cut production groups. In 1956, the Yu County Peoples Government organized and established the Yu County Folk Art Paper-cut Industry Production Cooperative (later renamed Yu County), one of the only two paper-cut societies in the country at that time. Paper-cutting factory); in 1978 and 1979, Yuxian paper-cutting experienced the Cultural RevolutionAfter his death, Yuxian paper-cutting exhibitions were successfully held twice in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, and Beijing, the capital; from the reform and opening up to the present, the art of Yuxian paper-cutting has prospered and developed in more than thirty years, and the paper-cutting industry in Yuxian has been It has become a well-known local industry in Yu County and has cultivated a large number of excellent paper-cutting artists. The county government even put forward the slogan of "building the county with culture" and successfully held two Chinese Paper-cutting Art Festivals, which created a huge impact in the paper-cutting industry in my country. Influence. So far, Yu County not only has state-owned enterprises such as Yu County Paper-cut Export Corporation and collective joint-stock enterprises such as Yu County Paper-cut Factory, there are also several private paper-cut factories and paper-cut workshops in various towns and villages in the county. There are more families and people engaged in paper-cutting production and sales and other related jobs.
