Fuyang paper cutting and decorative flowers

Generally, they include happy flowers, window grilles, door letters, lanterns, etc., and the content is mostly about good fortune and opera stories.

Wedding flowers: an essential decoration in weddings, made of red paper. Generally attached to daily necessities such as wardrobes, mirrors, tea sets, soap boxes, basins, etc. The patterns of happy flowers all have a good wish for prosperity, such as "goldfish stringing lotus", "mandarin duck lotus", "butterfly fluttering lotus", etc. Some even cut dragons, phoenixes, magpies, peonies, lotus and other patterns symmetrically on both sides of the word "happy". The paper-cut work "Happy Flower Paper-cut" is a happy flower paper-cut I obtained from a kindergarten teacher during a field trip. The author is Jia Peixiu. The overall paper-cutting has a symmetrical structure, and children, lotus flowers, and roosters are cut symmetrically on both sides of the Double Happiness, which means that pairs will be born in succession.

Xihua Paper-cut Jia Peixiu

Window grilles: There is a habit of putting up window grilles in northern Anhui. During the Spring Festival in Fuyang area, the house is always cleaned and bright red flowers are put on the windows to ward off evil and pray for blessings. In the old days, all the girls and wives in the village could do it. When they greet each other during the Chinese New Year, the window grilles on the windows are like exhibiting works. The themes are mostly "abundant grains", "prosperity of livestock", "more than enough year after year", "unicorn wishful thinking", etc. There are also opera-themed window grilles such as: "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Wu Song Fights the Tiger", "Wang Xiang Lies on the Ice", etc.

Door letter: used on the door lintel, hung in sets. The style is mostly rectangular, with tassels on the bottom, and is mostly made of red paper. The contents of the door notes are mostly auspicious words and patterns, such as "carp leaping over the dragons gate", "more than one year after another", "gold and jade filling the house", "magpies climbing plum blossoms", etc. door noteIt has the meaning of praying for blessings and exorcising evil spirits.

Carp Leaping over the Dragon Gate Gate Note

Lamp flowers: Paste paper cuts on lamps. The function of lanterns is to beautify the lanterns, and the lamps are used to emit light. This requires that the lines of the cut lanterns must be slender and evenly distributed to facilitate light transmission.