Paper-cutting exhibition announcement [Location: Tonglu County, Zhejiang]

Paper-cutting exhibition announcement [Location: Tonglu County, Zhejiang]

As a treasure of our country’s culture, paper-cutting has not received people’s attention in the past few years. In recent years, folk culture has been developing in various places. Paper-cutting has once again ushered in the prosperous spring, and many places have held various forms of festivals. Paper-cut exhibition to promote the progress and development of national paper-cut culture. According to Hangzhou.com, during New Years Day, the China Knife and Scissors Museum launched an exhibition of four Tonglu paper-cutting artists: Hu Jiazhi, Xie Yuxia, Zhu Weizhen and Wang Delin.

There are 94 paper-cut works in this temporary exhibition. The paper-cut forms are rich and colorful, including single-color paper-cut, multi-color paper-cut, and three-dimensional paper-cut.

Exhibition location: Temporary exhibition hall on the second floor of the museum. It will be on display for two months.

In addition, at 9:30 am on January 2, 2010, Wang Delin, an artist from Tonglu Folk Paper-cutting Association, will hold a paper-cutting lecture in the lecture hall of the Chinese Knife and Scissors Museum.

Starting from January 9th, every Saturday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, paper-cutting artists from the Tonglu Folk Paper-cutting Association will teach paper-cutting for free on the spot. Interested citizens only need to bring their own scissors and paper-cutting materials.

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Tonglu County paper-cutting information:

1999:

Tonglu paper-cutting has been around since ancient times, and many clever wives have their own skills: wedding flowers, lamp flowers, shoe flowers, clothing flowers, window flowers... just like brilliant mountain flowers. In 1992, the Hangzhou Municipal Art Museum identified Tonglu as the development base for folk paper-cutting. After more than six years of development, the County Cultural Center condensed the originally loose Tonglu paper-cutting into a group.

Tonglu County Cultural Center promotes and inherits the art of paper-cutting by establishing key archives. A group of veteran paper-cutting artists such as Xie Yuxia, Zhong Yaxian, and Zheng Zaitian were invited to communicate with each other and cultivate new talents. The best of the creative groups are selected to participate in national competitions and international exchanges, which increases the popularity of Tonglu paper-cutting. The art of paper-cutting has also been brought to more than ten primary and secondary schools, and development bases have been established one by one. In the annual art competition for primary and secondary school students in the county, the number of paper-cut works increases to 50%.

TongluAfter paper-cutting forms a creative group, they can work together to develop their individuality. The establishment of the Tonglu Folk Paper-cut Research Association laid a theoretical foundation for the development of the group. The county cultural center has invested tens of thousands of yuan in training, exhibitions and special collections to improve paper-cutting skills, forming the distinctive characteristics of concise summary, thick and beautiful, exquisite and translucent, subtle and gorgeous. So far, Tonglu has more than 50 paper-cut creative backbones and more than 100 artistic talents. It has established 5 development bases, 45 works have won provincial awards, and 2 works have won gold and silver awards in national competitions.

2005:

With a pair of scissors and a square of blank paper, there is no need to refer to the drawings. The scissors are flying while talking and laughing, and the paper scraps are colorful, and beautiful paper-cut works emerge before your eyes. At a recent folk art exchange exhibition held in the UK, Tonglu paper-cutting artist Xie Yuxias unique skills amazed the audience.

In recent years, after rescue protection and development, Tonglu County folk paper-cutting artists have used their magical techniques and the profound connotations contained in their works to persevere in showing this mysterious folk art to the world. However, just when Tonglu paper-cutting became more beautiful and more "live" with each cut, it once again encountered growing pains - how to break the market bottleneck.

Folk art shows its charm

Tonglu paper-cutting has a long history and rich resources. According to records in "Wulin Fanzhi", the art of paper-cutting appeared in Tonglu as early as the Five Dynasties period. For nearly a thousand years, local residents have used paper-cutting to celebrate and commemorate every wedding, sacrifice, and festival, and many local people have developed superb paper-cutting skills. But as a folk art, Tonglu paper-cutting has never been known to outsiders. It was not until 1989, when "Collection of Hu Jiazhi Paper-cuttings and Happy Flowers" was officially published with the funding of the Tonglu government that Tonglu paper-cutting attracted the attention of the world again. In 1993, the Hangzhou Mass Art Museum listed Tonglu as a folk paper-cut development base, and Tonglu began to invest funds and manpower in rescuing and protecting the art of paper-cutting.

After more than ten years of excavation and protection, Tonglu paper-cutting has now borne fruitful results, cultivating a number of new paper-cutting artists such as Xie Yuxia and Wang Delin. Many paper-cutting art works have also been sent across the ocean to Russia and Spain. , Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries, and has been warmly welcomed and sought after by the local people. As a result, Tonglu County was rated as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art" by the Ministry of Culture in 2003.

Traditional art is difficult to enter the market

Tonglu paper-cutting has gone abroad and become famous, but how can we make the art of paper-cutting prosperous? "The fundamental method is to go to the market and take the road of industrialization." Lou Yiyi, the person in charge of the countys folk paper-cutting art association, told reporters that as early as the last centuryFinally, they clearly proposed that paper-cutting should be market-oriented. In 1997, through the collaboration of the County Folk Paper-cut Art Association, a middle school in the county reached an agreement with a foreign company to produce 2,000 paper-cut art wall calendars for them. The two parties did not reach an agreement on the price of the calendar, so the first attempt to market the paper-cut works came to nothing. After several years of silence, the Tonglu County Folk Paper-cut Art Association found a new opportunity in 2004 - to produce a set of "Zhejiang University·Impression" paper-cut wall calendar for Zhejiang University. However, due to the difficulty in determining the price and other reasons, although Tonglu County came up with a design plan that satisfied the other party, this cooperation failed to succeed.

Two attempts and two failures have caused many paper-cutting enthusiasts to doubt that Tonglu paper-cutting will continue to be market-oriented. "We are also studying the issue of market-oriented operation of paper-cutting art, but now we are facing great difficulties mainly due to insufficient funds and personnel. The paper-cutting art association is powerless even if it wants to organize paper-cutting artists to enter the market." said the relevant department of the county. A person in charge told reporters that they spend very little on special expenses for the protection, development, and census of various folk arts every year, and there are only two or three people specifically responsible for the development of paper-cutting art. No matter how good the plan is, it can only Its just talk on paper.

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