Folk Art

October 16, 2010

As a folk art, paper cutting has a strong local feature. Many places in China are famous for their featured paper cutting. Shaanxi Province stresses the simplicity of the cutting. Wei County in Hebei Province and Guangling in Shanxi Province , for example, are well known for their dyed paper cutting, which is of the brilliant colors, and with the most famous pattern of the opera characters. The paper cutting of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province has the hidden refinement under the skin-deep roughness. As to the paper cutting of Foshan in Guangdong Province , it has the highly ornamental function for its various colors and pattern as well as the fine workmanship. Chinese paper cutting is rich in content from the animals and plants to the vividly daily life scenes. Some of them even are created into a series to telling you a interesting Chinese mystique. Some are cut into many creatures in the world on one sheet with great imagination.

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