The art of paper and scissor

A world created with scissors

Paper cutting is the art of cutting paper designs. The art has evolved uniquely all over the world to adopt to different cultural styles.

The oldest surviving paper-cut out is a symmetrical circle form the 6^th century found in Xinjiang China. By the eighth or ninth century paper-cutting was being done in most of middle Europe.

The Chinese traditional culture is profound, deep is far stream long. Today, I want to introduce the traditional culture is the paper-cut! There are many kinds of paper-cut, such as: the window, like flowers, fireworks, shoes, flowers, door raft, bay state cloth, measures of worship, the paper-cut, QiFan paper-cut, the paper-cut characters, the paper-cut, pictures, etc.

Paper cutting is all made by hand. It is easy to learn rudiments. Non-craftsmen need only a knife and paper. For craftsman, they need knives and graver of various types to make complicated patterns. It can be one piece of paper or many pieces. Simple patterns can be cut with a knife. For complicated patterns, people first pasted the pattern on the paper and then used various kinds of knives to make it. No mistake can be made during the process otherwise the work would fail. 

Chinese Paper cutting

Jianzhi (剪纸) is a traditional style of Paper-cutting in China. Jianzhi has been practiced in china since at least the 6^th century A.D. Jianzhi has a number of distinct uses in Chinese culture, almost all of which are for health, prosperity or decorative purposes. Red is the most commonly used color. Jianzhi cutting often have a heavy emphasis on Chinese characters symbolizing the Chinese Zodiac animal (十二生肖)

The paper-cut is a special folk art in China, with a history of nearly 1000 years. The materials used are simper: ordinary paper and a pair of scissors. A skilled paper-cutting crafts person cuts paper into design like doing magic tricks. A piece of red paper is folded and then cut several times, before being unfolded into an attractive pictures.

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