Characteristics of forest-paper prints

Yueqing's fine-line paper-cutting first complemented the "Dragon Boat Lantern" in the Southern Song Dynasty. Fine-line paper-cut is a "decorative flower" on the "Dragon Boat Lantern", which people used to call "Dragon Boat Flower". The original "Dragon Boat Flower" was rough, simple and simple. Now, thin-line engraving paper contains flowers, birds and animals, landscapes, people, etc., and its fineness can engrave more than 2,000 holes on a square inch of paper.

Lin's carved paper works use patterns to adjust the black-and-white relationship of the picture, which is slender and beautiful, emitting the unique aura of Jiangnan, not only vivid composition, but also delicate lines. In addition, he also paid great attention to collecting folk customs and folk stories, and applied them to fine-grained woodcut paper, which not only made the subject matter of fine-grained woodcut paper more extensive and full of folk characteristics, but also made the language of fine-grained woodcut paper richer and more distinctive.

Lin's jewelry dragon boat skillfully combines China's traditional painting and calligraphy, paper-cutting, sculpture, embroidery, color plastic arts and weaving. This jewel dragon is 4.5 meters long, 2 meters wide and 2.3 meters high. It is divided into four corridors. * * * There are more than 65,438+000 small windows with 400 characters. The performers in each window are Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon and other ancient costumes, opera figures and interesting folk daily life scenes such as making rice cakes. At the beginning of trial production, the little people on the jewelry dragon often did not move much or exaggerated. This may be very painful for Lin, who has 400 characters and needs more than 400 unique movements. During that time, he repeatedly pondered the action details of each character's different expressions. After many difficult learning, experiments and improvement processes, the old master of arts and crafts finally brought the characters in the jewelry dragon boat to life driven by the power supply.

The art of paper-cutting and carving jewelry dragons is an art that needs lifelong efforts. Under the impact of Shang Chao, the number of people and fans engaged in this traditional art is decreasing. When Lin is old, he has only one wish in his heart. In his lifetime, he can find more descendants for these two skills called "Yueqing stunts".