Current status of folk paper-cutting in Yimeng

Yimeng paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in Yimeng area and the most popular traditional folk decorative art. Yimeng paper-cutting is generally welcomed by the public because of its easily available materials, low cost, immediate effects and wide adaptability. Paper-cutting is widely used in every household in Yimeng area. Nowadays, not to mention ordinary farm families and grassroots worker families, even in magnificent star-rated hotels, pavilions, booths and clubs, Yimeng paper-cutting has its own place. Yimeng paper-cut art has been one of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in Yimeng area from ancient times to the present. Paper-cutting is most suitable for grassroots women in rural and urban areas to make in their spare time. It can be used as a practical item in daily life and is widely used indoors and outdoors to decorate walls, doors, windows, pillars, beams, mirrors, counters, lamps and Lanterns, etc., can also be used as various utensils for wedding celebrations and indoor display and decoration items for the newlyweds' room; they can be used by themselves to beautify daily life, entertain and express emotions, as a sustenance for ones own soul and emotions, and as a gift during New Years and holidays. They can be given as gifts to relatives, friends and close friends. You or your family can also sell them in the market or discuss and communicate with others and like-minded people.

In the past, Yimeng paper-cutting was usually completed by rural women and girls after the busy farming season in autumn and winter or during New Years Day and wedding celebrations, because paper-cutting is one of the handicrafts that every rural girl must master. To win praise from people and be appreciated by neighbors and relatives, rural girls must learn to cut paper. Whether a woman can cut paper and the level of the patterns she can cut out are often regarded as an important condition and standard for people to judge whether a woman is clever and can choose a suitable husbands family. In contrast, professional male paper-cutting artists often work together in family workshops to make a living, such as carving door stamps, etc. Their productions are often not simply expressions of their inner world, but It is created to meet the needs of life and the market, and to adapt to the needs of ordinary peoples lives and the festival market. For them, the art of paper-cutting is a handicraft that they use to earn money to support their families, and is part of their manual labor life.

The changes of the times have caused changes in peoples life, art, and appreciation interests. However, now, in order to better adapt to the needs of life and the market, Yimeng paper-cutting is more used for decoration, strengthening theAs gifts, works of art, and artistic functions as life decorations, its content not only becomes more colorful with the development of the times, but also gives the content and theme of the new era of paper-cut pattern art, advances with the times, and has the characteristics of the traditional folk culture of Yimeng area. Rich in connotation and image connotation, Yimeng paper-cutting pays more attention to inheriting, digesting and absorbing related brother and sister arts, thus developing into an art form that best represents the characteristics of folk art in the Yimeng area. Going out of Yimeng, displaying the image of Yimeng, and becoming an Cultural carriers appear on the stage of external exchanges. In the new era, paper-cutting in the Yimeng area, on the basis of inheriting the art of predecessors, pursues the knife to follow ones heart, make bold moves, do as one pleases, and get carried away, focusing on the creative form from law to lawlessness, from order to disorder, Strive to be superb, digest, absorb and innovate the traditional essence of folk art, and produce a new type of paper-cutting that organically integrates national characteristics and local regional characteristics and has distinctive characteristics of the times. Now, as the market economy has penetrated deeply into urban and rural areas, and the integration trend of urban and rural areas, paper-cutting in Yimeng area has become one of the means for people to develop the economy and make a fortune. It has become a way for people to show their spiritual pursuit and The carrier of one’s own aesthetic pursuit. The widespread commercialization awareness of Yimeng paper-cutting works has been strengthened, and the distinctive characteristics of the times in the artistic form and content of Yimeng paper-cutting have been strengthened. Yimeng people widely use paper-cutting in embroidery and engraving as models for their creations; Yimeng paper-cutting is also a good way to earn foreign exchange through exports. Commodities are one of the best tangible and silent messengers of foreign cultural exchanges. Therefore, people in Yimeng love paper-cutting. The enthusiasm and enthusiasm of people in Yimeng for creating paper-cutting are unprecedentedly high. The artistic atmosphere for creating paper-cutting is unprecedentedly strong. Exhibitions of various art types continue to appear. Among them, the exchanges, exhibitions, and sales activities of paper-cutting art activities are unprecedented. Yimeng The economic development of the region has promoted the commercialization process of paper-cutting. Integrating rich historical and cultural resources, focusing on historical celebrities, historical relics, historical culture, etc., to develop cultural tourism with unique regional characteristics is the basic idea for Yimeng region to develop culture, economy, and tourism. Now, Linyi City, located in the center of Yimeng region, is implementing a "large-scale" construction of urban infrastructure, economic foundation, and cultural facilities. In this area, known as Langna in ancient times, there are the world-sensing "The Art of War" and "The Art of War by Sun Fu". Here are the books The hometown of the sage Wang Xizhi, the wise sage Zhuge Liang, the sage Zeng Shen, the sage Liu Hong and other historical celebrities. The people of Yimeng area are using their own unique history and culture and red culture to build a city brand. They are promoting Yimeng’s excellent culture and building a famous historical and cultural city. There will be greater achievements.

The rich Yimeng paper-cutting will contribute to beautifying the happy and happy new life of the Yimeng people.