The Origin and Implication of Spring Festival Paper-cutting

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the time to cut and paste window grilles to welcome the Spring Festival began in beginning of spring. People used paper-cutting to express their joy in the Spring Festival, which is the origin of cutting and pasting window grilles in the Spring Festival.

Window grilles have a history of thousands of years. In the historical evolution, window grilles have been given different meanings. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles express auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration. The lace of window grilles represents rolling financial resources; The patterns of gourd and lotus represent many children and many blessings; Chickens and birds mean good luck; The design of the pig symbolizes the good luck of the Year of the Pig and so on. During the Spring Festival, stick grilles symbolizes people's good wishes and wishes for the new year. In the south, stick grilles is usually the time to get married, which not only increases the joy, but also expresses the blessing to the new couple. Window grillage is a characteristic art of farming culture, and the rural living geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art have distinctive Han folk customs and artistic characteristics.