Chinese traditional paper cutting art

What I posted yesterday was the paper-cutting of "Along the River During Qingming Festival" by Mr. Gao Dianliang. The set of paper-cutting works prepared today have strong Chinese folk custom characteristics. They basically range from sages to mythological stories, from characters to animals. included. Of course, no matter how many works there are, it is impossible to fully present the essence of Chinese paper art in front of everyone, but it is very good to have a glimpse of the leopard.

Meihua, one of the "Four Gentlemen". Plum blossoms are relatively cold-resistant, blooming very early and in full bloom in early spring. Together with pine and bamboo, they are known as the "Three Friends of Winter". People paint plum blossoms mainly to express their uniqueness of not being afraid of severe cold and enduring frost and snow. personality. According to the history of painting, there were already people painting plum blossoms in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. By the Northern Song Dynasty, plum blossom painting had become a trend. The most famous one is monk Zhongren, who created the ink plum blossom. He painted plum blossoms without using any color, and only used the shades of ink to express them. It is said that he once saw the moonlight reflecting the shadow of plum blossoms on the window paper, and was inspired to create the ink plum blossoms dyed with thick and white ink. After that, another painter Yang Buzhi further developed this painting method on this basis. Create a double hook method to draw plum blossoms, making them pure, elegant and wild. Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, more plum blossoms have been used in paintings. The greatest plum painter in the Yuan Dynasty should be Wang Mian, who called himself the Master of the Plum Blossom House. His ink plum paintings changed from the sparse and indifferent style of the Song people, to dense flowers and dense stamens, giving people a warm, vigorous and upward feeling. Wang Mians surviving masterpiece is his "Picture of Plum Blossoms". He used pure ink and light and wild brushwork to vividly convey the pure and proud plum blossoms, embodying the aloof and proud feelings of the literati.

The cute giant panda

Magpie and Double Happiness