Content information of paper-cut handwritten newspaper

Introduction: In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Below is the handwritten newspaper content about paper-cutting that I prepared for you. I hope it will be helpful to you!

Introduction to paper-cutting (1)

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper and is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. . In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base, is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities. Its continuously inherited visual image and modeling style contain rich cultural and historical information, express the social recognition, moral concepts, practical experience, life ideals and aesthetic tastes of the general public, and are cognitive, educational, expressive, lyrical and Multiple social values ??such as entertainment and communication.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining a variety of objects and producing ideal and beautiful results. Regardless of the combination of one or more images, they are all modeled "with image meaning" and "image construction" rather than based on objective natural forms. At the same time, they are good at using Bixing techniques to create a variety of mascots. Combine conventional images to express your own psychology. The pursuit of auspicious metaphors has become one of the ultimate goals of image combination. Regional isolation and cultural limitations, as well as the intrusion of adversities such as natural disasters, have inspired people's desire for a happy and happy life. People pray for abundant food and clothing, prosperity, health and longevity, and all the best. Such simple wishes are conveyed through paper-cutting.

The uses of paper-cutting (2)

From the specific uses, it can be roughly divided into four categories:

1. Posting, that is, directly posted on doors, windows, walls, etc. Lanterns and colorful ribbons are used as decoration. Such as window flowers, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, smoke lattice, lantern flowers, paper flowers, door lettering;

2. For lining, that is, used to embellish gifts, dowries, sacrifices, and offerings. Such as wedding flowers, offering flowers, fireworks, candlestick flowers, incense flowers, and Double Ninth Festival flags;

3. Embroidery base samples, used for clothing, shoes, hats, and pillows. Such as shoe flowers, pillow flowers, hat flowers, bib flowers, sleeve flowers, suspender flowers;

4. For printing and dyeing, that is, as a printing plate for blue printed cloth, used for clothing materials, quilt tops, door curtains , baggage, bib, headscarf, etc.

Window grilles

Paper cuts used for decoration on windows. Most common in the north, the windows of northern farmhouses are mostly wooden lattice windows, with vertical lattice, square lattice or geometric pattern lattice, with a layer of white "paper" pasted on them. During the holidays, the window paper is replaced and new window grilles are affixed. , to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Window grilles can be in the form of corner flowers that decorate the four corners of the window panes, or grouped flowers with branches. There are also various free and suitable patterns, such as animals, flowers, plants, people, and continuous sets of window grilles from dramas or legends. In short, it can be adapted to different shapes of window panes to make different arrangements. There is a special arrangement, that is, the window grilles that span the window panes, which are called "window crossing" among Shandong folk.

Happy Flowers

Paper-cuts used to decorate various utensils and interior furnishings in wedding and festive fashion. Generally, paper-cuts are placed on tea sets, soap boxes, basins and other daily necessities, and some are affixed to dressing mirrors. The themes of happy flower patterns mostly emphasize the meaning of good luck and joy. The color is bright red, and the shapes include round, square, diamond-shaped, peach-shaped, pomegranate-shaped, etc., and are decorated with various auspicious patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, mandarin ducks, magpies, flowers, peonies, etc. There is a "flower within a flower" approach to composition and layout.

Fireworks

Place paper-cuts attached to gifts such as cakes, birthday noodles, eggs, etc. In the Chaozhou area of ??Guangdong, it is called "cake flower" and "fruit flower", and in Pingyang area of ??Zhejiang province, it is called "circle potted flower". The themes of fireworks are mostly auspicious and joyful patterns. In Shandong, "happy eggs" used to celebrate childbirth are pasted with paper cuts, or the eggs are dyed red to reveal white patterns. In rural areas of Fujian, people give each other birthday gifts with turtle patterns to symbolize longevity. There are turtle-shaped cakes and turtle-shaped paper-cuts.

Shoe flower

A paper cut used as a base for embroidery on the uppers of cloth shoes.

There are generally three forms: one is cut into small groups of flowers or small scattered flowers and embroidered on the toe, which is called "toe flower"; the second is to be cut into a crescent shape to suit the shape of the shoe upper, which is called "upper flower"; It extends from both ends of the toe flower to the upper, and is called "upper flower". There is also a kind of "sole flower", which was mostly used in "longevity shoes" in the old days. Or embroidered on the bottom of cloth socks. The layout of shoe flowers is generally sparse and bright, and the themes include flowers, plants, birds, etc. Some shoe flowers are partially cut but not hollowed out. This is called a "hidden knife" and is the basis for changing the color of the needle during embroidery.

Men's Notes

Also known as "Hanging Notes", "Hanging Money", "Red Notes", "Happy Notes", "Mencai" and "Zhaifan". It is generally used on the lintel or the second beam of the main room. Its style is mostly in the shape of a pennant, with a large head, wide sides and tassels at the bottom. Most are carved on red paper, but there are also other colors or color combinations. The patterns are mostly made of geometric patterns or inlaid with figures, flowers, dragons and phoenixes and auspicious words, such as "the whole world celebrates", "the country is peaceful and the people are safe", "more than one year after another", "good weather", "gold and jade fills the house", "magpies ascend the plum blossom", "luck, wealth, longevity, happiness, Wealth", "prosperity of five industries", etc. When posting, either one page has one word, or one page has one content. Hang them in sets, usually five at most. Posting a note on the door not only means to seal the spring and get rid of the old, but also has the meaning of praying for blessings and driving away evil spirits.

Douxianghua

A kind of colored paper-cut, mostly used for decoration in Han folk activities such as worshiping ancestors and gods. The themes of paper-cut are mostly dramas, historical stories, folklore, and flowers. , characters and other auspicious patterns. The color matching is generally composed of gold and wax paper such as bright red, peach, green, blue, orange, light yellow, and black. The colors are rich and the effect is very strong. When paper-cutting, seven layers of wax paper and one layer of wrinkled gold paper are stacked together, and the patterns are carved according to a unified pattern. After the engraving is completed, the different parts of each pattern are pieced together according to the inspiration of the paper-cutting artist and re-pasted. A piece of white paper, and finally carve the same pattern on the white paper. Therefore, a set of Douxiang flowers can make 8 paper-cuts with the same pattern and different colors.

Paper-cut flags and flags

Paper-cuts used in folk activities to cut into the shape of flags and flags. For example, during the folk Double Ninth Festival, pennants are cut from colored paper and placed on the Double Ninth Cake, which is very beautiful. An old custom in Zhejiang during the Song Dynasty was that if there was a patient, a shaman would hold a paper-cut dragon and tiger flag to drive away evil spirits and eliminate disasters. In funerals, the "flower streamers" used for funerals are also cut from plain paper. Paper-cut flower flags are related to the flag-shaped object held by the guiding Bodhisattva in Buddhism; in addition, there are also paper-cut "soul-calling paper flags" in the rituals commemorating the anniversary of the deceased, as well as the "shu" (the shape of which is hung on the beam of the sutra hall). Also similar to flags).

Information about ancient paper-cutting (3)

1. Paper-cutting in the Tang Dynasty

Paper-cutting in the Tang Dynasty was in a period of great development. Du Fu’s poem "Peng Yaxing" There is a sentence in it, "The warm soup washes my feet, and the paper cuttings attract my soul." The custom of using paper cuttings to attract souls has been spread among the people at that time. From the Tang Dynasty paper-cuts now in the British Museum, it can be seen that the art of paper-cutting was extremely high at that time, and the composition of the picture was complete, expressing an ideal state of heaven and earth. Jie was popular in the Tang Dynasty, and its carved woodblock patterns had the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the "Duoyang" in Shosoin, Japan, whose sheep pattern is a typical expression technique of paper-cutting handcraft art. In the Tang Dynasty, people also used stencil printing plates made in the form of paper-cutting. People carved patterns from thick paper and printed dye onto cloth to form beautiful patterns. In addition, paper-cuts from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties have also been unearthed in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, such as "Double Deer Pagoda", "Pagodas and Deer", "Buddhist Pagoda", etc., which all belong to the category of "merit flower paper" and are mainly used for worship. Buddha statues decorate palaces and dojos. The composition of the painting is complex and contains specific content. In addition, there are also ink paintings such as "Statue of Bodhisattva" and "Statue of Bodhisattva Holding Flags", which are hollow paper-cut paintings. It is a work that combines paper-cutting and painting.

2. Paper-cutting in the Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln paper-cut applique square lamp During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already industry artists who made paper-cutting their profession. According to records in Song Dynasty's "Old Martial Arts" written by Zhou Mi, there were hundreds of "small economies" in Hangzhou at this time. Among them, there are those who specialize in "cutting arrowhead patterns", some are good at cutting "various calligraphy", and some specialize in "cutting various color patterns".

The papermaking industry in the Song Dynasty was mature and there were many types of paper products, which provided conditions for the popularization of paper-cutting.

For example, they become "fireworks" for folk gifts, "window flowers" affixed to windows, or used for decoration of lanterns and tea cups. The application scope of folk paper-cutting gradually expanded in the Song Dynasty. Jiangxi Jizhou Kiln used paper-cutting as a pattern for ceramics, and made the ceramics more exquisite through glazing and firing. Folks also used paper-cutting in the form of using the skins, skins, and other materials of animals such as donkeys, cows, horses, and sheep. The figures are carved into the figures of the shadow puppet show; the engraving plate made by the blue calico technique is carved with oil cardboard to form patterns, and the pattern pattern of the squeegee printing is based on the paper-cutting technique. There are Yin and Yang carvings, and long lines must be cut. Use points to distinguish reality from reality.

3. Paper-cutting in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Paper-cutting in the Qing Dynasty: Duck Playing with Lotus

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the handicraft art of paper-cutting matured and reached its heyday. The application scope of folk paper-cut handicrafts is even wider. The floral decorations on folk lanterns, the patterns on fans, and embroidery patterns, etc., are all made of paper-cut as decoration and then processed. What's more, Chinese people often use paper-cutting as home decorations to beautify the home environment, such as door stacks, window grilles, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers, ceiling flowers, etc. are all paper-cuts used to decorate doors, windows, and rooms.

Although the art of paper-cutting comes from the folk, it has become a national art by the Qing Dynasty. Even the royal relatives at that time were inseparable from paper-cutting. The Kunning Palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing was the bridal chamber where emperors of the Qing Dynasty used candles and flowers when they got married. According to the custom of the Manchu people, the window paper on the front and rear windows of the palace is papered on the outside. The walls are papered, with black paper-cut corner flowers with the character "囍" affixed to the four corners, and a black paper-cut dragon and phoenix group flower in the center of the ceiling. There are also paper cuts on the walls of the aisles on both sides of the palace. Judging from the paper-cut patterns, materials and colors, compared with ordinary farmhouse ceiling flowers and wall flowers, there is basically no difference except that the paper-cut patterns are slightly larger.

Methods and techniques of paper-cutting (4)

1. Folding

Folding paper to produce repeated patterns is the most basic of paper-cutting techniques. It is also an expression technique used in monochrome paper-cutting. The different effects it produces depend on the number and angle of folds. When using this technique to cut flowers, you can fold the paper twice or three times before cutting. The resulting pattern will be uniform on all four or six sides. If you are cutting an animal or a character, fold it once and the shape will be symmetrical. Because folded paper-cutting is a highly symmetrical pattern, the resulting graphics are more rhythmic. This technique is often used to cut flowers with the word "Xi" and ceiling flowers.

2. Yin and Yang carving

The basic effect of paper-cutting is obtained by using yin and yang lines alone or mixed.

Intaglio engraving is also called engraving, which is a method of engraving contour lines that represent the structure of objects and expressing lines in a large area. This effect is thick, solid, and has a strong sense of weight, and has a strong sense of weight. The sense of contrast between black and white, the cut-out blank space forms a pattern, and the lines are not connected.

Positive engraving is also called openwork engraving, which is just the opposite of negative engraving. It engraves the blank part and retains the outline. The lines of the pattern are solid and the lines are connected. This method is smooth, clear, exquisite and detailed.

The combination of yin and yang is the best way to express paper-cutting. The two methods of yin and yang carving appear in the same work, which makes the composition varied and the contrast between black, white and gray in the picture is sharp. It is a highly expressive paper-cutting technique.

3. Punching holes

Use a knife or scissors to cut out the basic outline on the paper, and then use a needle to punch holes in the pattern, mainly to connect multiple layers of paper and at the same time Delicacy is found in the roughness. This technique is often used for embroidery patterns, and sometimes the patterns are symmetrical, such as pillow flowers, shoe flowers, sleeve flowers, etc. If you need 2 to 4 identical paper patterns, then use rice paper to cut and punch holes, and then peel off and glue after completion, so you can have multiple identical paper patterns at the same time. Rice paper is used because it is easy to stick and is thin, so it will not affect the beauty when placed underneath for embroidery. Use quick and easy staplers and staples instead, which can also achieve the same effect of connecting multiple layers of paper.

Content and meaning of paper-cutting (5)

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining various objects and producing ideal and beautiful results.

Regardless of the combination of one or more images, they are all modeled "with image meaning" and "image formation" rather than based on objective natural forms. At the same time, they are good at using Bixing techniques to create a variety of mascots. Combine conventional images to express your own psychology. The pursuit of auspicious metaphors has become one of the ultimate goals of image combination. Regional isolation and cultural limitations, as well as the intrusion of adversities such as natural disasters, have inspired people's desire for a happy and happy life. People pray for abundant food and clothing, prosperity, health and longevity, and all the best. Such simple wishes are conveyed through paper-cutting.