Chinese Paper-

cutting
Traditional Chinese paper cutting

1 What is Chinese 2 The history of

paper cutting ? paper cutting

3 Uses of Chinese 4 Other facts of

Paper-cutting paper cutting
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What is Chinese paper-cutting ?

Paper cutting patterns come from
daily life. Clipping and engraving
are two skills used to make it.
Paper cutting expresses Chinese
people’s wishes for happiness and
good luck.
The paper cutting craft is
considered to be one of standards
to idenfity a smart woman.
Paper cutting is a kind of hollow out art. It is one of the
oldest folk arts of Han nationality in China. It gives a
visual sense of space and artistic enjoyment. In ancient
times people relied on the sun for their work and
worshipped it. And red is the color of the sun. People
regard red as a symbol of hope and life.
In 2006, paper-cutting became one of the
first national intangible cultural heritages.

In 2009, Chinese paper cutting was included in the

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
of Humanity.
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History of Chinese Paper-cutting
 Long , long ago, there was poor scholar

who wrote the character

“ 福” （ happiness ） on paper , and

his wife tore the character out.

After that , Their lives become rich and

lucky.This is the original story of paper

cutting.
起源
 History

The invention of paper was in the Western

Han Dynasty BC, before which there was no
paper cutting art, but at that time, people
used thin sheets of material 。to make
handicrafts by hollow-out carving technique,
but as early as before the emergence of paper
has been popular.
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uses of paper cutting
 Uses of Chinese Paper-cutting

post The embroidery

based
Put it on the wall
As the basis of
embroidery

Place adorn Printing and

dyeing based
Used to decorate A printing plate
gifts. used for blue calico
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Other facts of paper cutting
 Chinese Paper-cutting Form

Window Wedding Food and gift

decoration decoration decoration
 Types of paper cutting

monochromatic Colorful three-

dimensional
Through paper cutting, people create beautiful images; To comfort their soul, display
great creativity in their nature, establish their ideal world, an affirmation of the power
of people, encourage people to continue to struggle the courage.