The Main Forms of Xi 'an Paper-cut

The main forms are window kiln ceiling flower, kang flower, door painting, hanging curtain flower, pillow flower, table skirt flower, shoe flower, wedding double happiness flower, clothing ornament flower, shrine decal and so on.

Xi 'an paper-cut, a folk art form, has a long history. Among the paper-cutting arts with different styles and characteristics all over the country, the ancient and quaint Shaanxi paper-cutting is loved by people for its unique charm. The main forms of paper-cutting in Shaanxi are window kiln top flower, kang flower, door painting, hanging curtain, pillow flower, table skirt flower, shoe flower, wedding double happiness flower, costume ornament flower, shrine decal and so on. Various forms and rich contents.

Window grilles are the most common. Every Spring Festival, no matter where the countryside is, white paper is pasted on the windows, and window grilles cut from red paper are pasted to celebrate the New Year. Shaanxi window grilles, in terms of performance content, first, inherit the tradition, and second, be close to life and reflect the reality at close range. There are people's activities, flowers and birds, fish and insects, birds and beasts, folk stories and legends, etc. The shape is rigorous and full of folk flavor.

Shaanxi paper-cut is mostly made by peasant women, and its characteristics are simple, rough, concise and clear. The paper-cuts they created are full of rich earthy flavor and strong emotional color, without any pretense, and the folk customs are simple.

On the one hand, they are influenced by folk culture, and on the other hand, they carefully observe and understand life, condensing the wisdom of ordinary working people. Through bold and rich imagination, they use paper-cutting to express their feelings about life and their understanding of beauty.

Paper-cut culture

Paper-cutting in northern Shaanxi is dominated by monochrome paper-cutting, with simple and simple shape, emphasis on exaggeration and deformation, and inheritance of ancient aesthetic taste and modeling concept. In terms of content, animals and flowers are the main ones. It is said that Confucius enlightened the world, but he neglected northern Shaanxi, so the temperament of northern Shaanxi people is not as gentle as that of Guanzhong people, so they are very creative and emotional, so they have a strong personality.

In Jingbian, Anbian and Dingbian in northern Shaanxi, people cut paper on three sides, and paper-cutting has become another style, subtle, small and exquisite, small and medium-sized, and accurate in description. "Lele" is as thin as a needle, and the trimming is as thin as a hair. It is different from Yan 'an Sui and rough paper-cutting, and it is also different from Jiangnan's originality and realism.

According to textual research, Trilateral was once a frontier town, and the court often sent southern generals to guard it. They live here with their families, and also bring the folk culture of the water town, which is combined with the local folk art in Gu Zhuo to form a unique trilateral paper-cut.

Due to the good economic foundation, the paper-cutting forms in gap area have become diversified, such as monochrome, stippling, collage, paper and plastic. The content is mainly opera characters, and flowers, birds and animals often add piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, eight treasures and so on. , a symbol of cultural symbols, has a strong cultural characteristics of the Central Plains.

Ku Lan Shu is a master of folk collage paper-cutting in Xunyi County. She is over eighty years old this year, and she is a master of paper-cutting art named by Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture. She developed collage paper-cutting to the extreme, which amazed experts and scholars. Taiwan Province Han Sheng publishes a large-scale picture book for Ku Lan Shu. CCTV and Shaanxi TV stations filmed feature films for reporting.

The paper-plastic paper-cut created by Luo Zhanhua, an old man in Heyang County, is based on the characters in the play, which vividly depicts the strokes and styles of the characters in the play. Weibei's monochrome paper-cut is influenced by its shadow play modeling, and Xifu's monochrome paper-cut is influenced by woodcut New Year pictures, which shows the profound cultural heritage of the Central Plains.