Government policies and regulations protect the development of folk paper-cutting
The protection of folk paper-cutting in our country can be traced back to the 1950s. Under the guidance of the artistic policy of "let a hundred flowers bloom and introduce the new", many staff in the cultural department began to go deep into the folk and engage in folk art and crafts Excavation, research, support, organization and promotion work. Many paper-cuts that were originally unknown began to appear in illustrated magazines and exhibitions, becoming an art form that is gradually loved by the art world and the public.
Many areas where the art of paper-cutting is relatively developed have also established state-run paper-cutting factories with the support of local governments. Paper-cutting, as a specialty export commodity, is exported to many countries and regions in the world through foreign language bookstores and other channels. Since the reform and opening up, Chinas social structure has undergone great changes. Many paper-cutting factories have closed down or disintegrated due to state restructuring. The living environment of folk paper-cutting has also undergone tremendous changes. In response to this situation, the government has launched new protection efforts.
In 1979, the Ministry of Culture, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other departments began to conduct nationwide research on folk culture and art, and published and distributed a collection of Chinese national folk literature and art in the form of a chronicle. In May 1997, the State Council promulgated the "Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Arts and Crafts", which clarified the countrys attitude towards traditional arts and crafts and the responsibilities and obligations of governments at all levels in the protection of traditional arts and crafts. Protection provides policy basis and criteria. In 2003, the Ministry of Culture officially launched the "Chinese National Folk Culture Protection Project", and folk paper-cutting was also included in the top ten Chinese folk cultural heritage rescue projects. In August of the same year, the Chinese Folk Writers and Artists Association held the "Special Working Conference on Paper-cutting in Chinas Folk Cultural Heritage Rescue Project" in Yu County, Hebei Province, and unanimously adopted the "Yixian Declaration on the Rescue and Protection of Chinese Folk Paper-cutting", making paper-cutting rescue an important part of the Chinese folk cultural heritage rescue project. The second key project of the cultural heritage rescue project.
More than 200 heads of relevant departments and experts and scholars from more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country jointly called for vigorous protection and rescue of scissors.paper art. Immediately launch a nationwide census of folk paper-cutting art. This census will take three years to get a complete picture of my countrys paper-cut heritage. It will use multi-dimensional methods such as text, photography, and video to comprehensively and completely record the inheritance, creation, and production of the paper-cut art that remains across the country. Later, 30 volumes of "Chinese Paper-cut Collection" were compiled and published, and the "Chinese Paper-cut Art Information Database" was also established. On August 28, 2004, the Eleventh Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National Peoples Congress decided to ratify the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage adopted at the 32nd UNESCO General Conference on November 3, 2003. , the protection of intangible cultural heritage has become the will of the national government. From 2005 to 2008, the Ministry of Culture also carried out a nationwide census of intangible cultural heritage resources. The objects of the census were "from ancient villages to small wallets", including folk customs, folk art and folk literature, and all folk Culture is included in this category. In 2005, the "Notice of the State Council on Strengthening the Protection of Cultural Heritage" stipulated that cultural heritage protection should be guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", comprehensively implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, and increase cultural heritage protection. Strengthen efforts to build a scientific and effective cultural heritage protection system, raise the awareness of cultural heritage protection in the whole society, give full play to the role of cultural heritage in inheriting Chinese culture, improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the people, enhance national cohesion, and promote the construction of advanced socialist culture and play an important role in building a harmonious socialist society. At the same time, the government has also determined that the protection of intangible cultural heritage must implement the policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, inheritance and development". In 2006, the excavation and protection of Chinas folk paper-cutting art was officially launched. The first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists included paper-cutting from nine places (VII-16), including Hebei Yuxian paper-cutting and Hebei Fengning Manchu paper-cutting. , Shanxi Zhongyang paper-cutting, Liaoning Yiwulushan Manchu paper-cutting, Jiangsu Yangzhou paper-cutting, Zhejiang Yueqing fine-grained paper-cutting, Guangdong paper-cutting, Yunnan Dai paper-cutting, Shaanxi Ansai paper-cutting. Thirty-one types of paper-cutting were added to the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects. In October 2006, the Ministry of Culture issued the "Interim Measures for the Protection and Management of National Intangible Cultural Heritage" in the form of a ministerial order, proposing specific protection units, representativeness and management measures for national intangible cultural heritage items. requirements. In June 2008, the Ministry of Culture issued the "Interim Measures for the Identification and Management of Representative Inheritors of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects", which clarified the principles, conditions, procedures and inheritance criteria for naming representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects. Obligations and methods to revoke recognition. In 1998, the Ministry of Culture focused on the Law on the Protection of National and Folk Traditional CultureThe project is included in the legislative plan. The Ministry of Culture, the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the National Peoples Congress, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held the "Legislative Symposium on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Culture" and the "International Symposium on the Protection and Legislation of Ethnic and Folk Culture" in November 2000 and December 2001. On the basis of research, the Ministry of Culture drafted the "Law on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Culture (Proposed Draft)". After the Chinese government ratified the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, the draft law was renamed the Law on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Currently, the law is under review by relevant departments. I believe that once this law is passed, it will definitely play a greater role in promoting the protection of folk paper-cutting. In addition to these laws and policy regulations issued by the central government, since the 1980s, Ningxia, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Yunnan and other places have also formulated local regulations and government regulations to protect folk art and folk artists.
However, the government is currently trying to support and help the development of intangible cultural heritage such as folk paper-cutting through laws and policies. However, firstly, the regulations have just been formulated and are incomplete in many aspects. Secondly, when they are implemented at the local level, the implementation We will encounter many different specific situations in terms of implementation and implementation, so we can only guide and support the protection and development of paper-cutting in a general direction.
