The current situation of paper-cutting in Yu County
Ensuring the vitality of intangible cultural heritage is to survive and inherit it. This kind of inheritance should not only protect its authenticity, but also give it the vitality of "revitalization". As Mr. Wang Wenzhang pointed out: The basic characteristics of the living rheology of intangible cultural heritage also determine that our protection today should not be static and solidified protection, but protection for development. Without protection, development is difficult; without development, protection loses its significance.
The significance of the protection of intangible cultural heritage is to protect the excellent traditions of our national culture, to treat intangible cultural heritage as the cultural genes of a nation, and to provide a real and realistic environment for its development on the basis of strict inheritance and protection. solid foundation. If the objects we protect lose their cultural connotation and traditional skills, then the so-called development and innovation will become a tree without roots and water without a source, losing its value and significance.
There are currently three situations in which paper-cutting exists in Yu County: first, there are works that have been handed down, such as the works of paper-cutting masters such as Wang Laoshang and Zhou Yongming, which have been collected, but their skills have been passed down; second, there are works and inheritors, such as Yu Countys traditional paper-cutting is in an endangered state due to various reasons. The third is to integrate it with the market. For example, the development of Yu Countys modern handicraft paper-cutting is on an upward trend. But there are certain problems: the blind pursuit of economic benefits dilutes its cultural connotation and loses its original regional characteristics and artistic characteristics.
While protecting and developing Chinas folk paper-cutting art, how can it adapt to the law of survival of the fittest under the market economy and take advantage of new resources in the information society to create a new world of its own? Entering a new era of market-oriented social development, Yuxian paper-cutting, like other folk art, should follow two different paths for its inheritance, protection and development.
