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A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrat

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

Crane has auspicious meanings in the eyes of Chinese people. Since ancient times, it has represented the arrival of the season and also given people a feeling of being a messenger of happiness. Modern people fold paper cranes to represent prayers and blessings. In Japan, there is an ancient legend about origami cranes blessing and making wishes: fold the thousandth paper crane at midnight exactly and make a wish immediately, and the wish will come true.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

Many people will use origami cranes in exchange for blessings in times of pain and hardship. Therefore, a particularly sincere person will give one thousand pieces off to the other person. At present, Chinas Sichuan earthquake has severely affected people. Lets fold a paper crane with our own hands and let it carry our best wishes to the people in the disaster area of ??Sichuan. We hope that the rescue will go more smoothly and our homes can be rebuilt as soon as possible!

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

1. Materials:
Square colored paper or wrapping paper, not too thick Okay, utility knife

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

1. Method:
1. Fold the square diagonally in half to form an isosceles triangle.
2. Fold the overlapping left and right corners of the isosceles triangle in half to form a smaller isosceles triangle. Spread it out and you will see a central line from the vertex to the bottom.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

3. Grasp the intersection of the central line and the bottom with one hand, and insert the index finger of the other hand deep into the inside of corner 1 Open the paper in the center and press the center line perpendicular to the bottom, so that the corner marked "right" overlaps with A, and a diamond shape will appear (see Figures 2 and 3). Repeat steps 2.3.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

4. Fold the ㄅ corner and ㄆ corner toward the central line twice: with one end as the base point ( (See Figure 3-1, Figure 3-2, Figure 3-3) Fold once and unfold (Figure 3-4); then use the "right" end as the base point, fold once (Figure 3-5, Figure 3- 6), spread out (as shown in Figure 4).

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

We will use the four polylines that appear to do the next step. (For the convenience of readers, these four lines are drawn in blue)

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

5. Pull the right end up Open, use the four blue lines just folded out to help the right end corner move back.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

6. On the diamond at the left end, repeat the action of 4.5.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

6. On the diamond at the left end, repeat the action of 4.5. Fold corners B and C inward respectively, and repeat the process on the other side.
7. Overlap the two sides with triangles and turn out the other two sides without triangles.
8. Fold the unforked end A into a horizontal line at the center point so that it can stretch horizontally. Repeat this action with the other piece.
9. Fold down the vertical corner on one side to look like a beak.

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

10. Pull out the vertical corner on the other side slightly and fold it so that the tail is in line with the head The parts are slightly separated. Happy congratulations came from the paper crane!

A comprehensive tutorial on folding traditional handmade origami cranes and blessings with illustrations

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