Slim and soft folk paper-cuts from the Yangtze River Basin
Theme Features
Since the application form of folk paper-cutting in the Yangtze River Basin is mainly indoor and clothing decoration, the graphics are mainly decorated with deformed animals and plants.
Style
The theme patterns of paper-cutting in the Yangtze River Basin are simple and vivid in shape. The color scheme is generally composed of gold and seven-color wax paper, such as bright red, peach blossom, green, blue, orange, light yellow and black, which has a strong decorative effect.
Nanjing often uses the technique of nesting flowers within flowers, showing dexterity in strictness; Yangzhous paper-cut graphics mostly pursue painterly meaning; Nantongs paper-cut graphics have a rigorous structure and are expressed with exquisite paper carving techniques.
Yangzhous folk embroidery is closely related to paper-cutting. The paper-cut graphics used as embroidery samples often conform to the style of the embroidery and the characteristics of the objects to be used. The shapes are mostly divided by curves, giving a strong sense of painting.
Expression techniques
For paper-cutting in the Nanjing area, the pattern themes are based on needs and specific paper-cutting shapes, filled with auspicious patterns such as flowers and leaves. It can be said that there are flowers within flowers, titles within titles, rough within fine, and cleverness within clumsiness. Among them, except for the Douxiang flowers and the door letter, which are carved with knives, most of the happy flowers are cut with scissors. The paper used is wax paper.
