Gaoping folk paper-cutting has a long history, a wide variety of varieties and rich content. Gaoping folk artists use it to decorate food, clothing, housing, transportation, customs and festivals in a colorful way. Paper-cutting has a broad mass base in Gaoping. The main force is working women who are not separated from production. They combine folk customs and festivals, rely on their personal life experience, and yearn for a better life. They inherit and understand from their elders and neighbors, and add their own instinct to create beauty from the bottom of their hearts to make intoxicating paper-cutting with a strong local flavor. The popularity of paper-cutting among the people is accompanied by birthdays, weddings, funerals, festive festivals and daily life. It can be said that daily life is a social factor that promotes the development of paper-cutting, and it is also a source of enriching the content and style of paper-cutting. Before the Spring Festival, every family will paste red and green paper-cut window decorations on the white window paper, with different contents such as tigers, lions, fish, chickens, rabbits, cats, magpies making a fuss over plum blossoms, fish arching lotus, and wind playing with peonies. During the Lantern Festival, colorful lanterns are hung in front of every house, and the paper-cuts posted on the lanterns are even more colorful and exquisite. When children grow up and get married, the elders wish them a long and happy life together with fish playing with lotus, dragon and phoenix, phoenix and peony, and bowls in a niche to express the simple symbolic meaning of romance and freedom. When children wish their elders a happy birthday, they use the red paper-cut of "five blessings holding longevity" to wish them a long life. Various animals and life scenes in daily life are often used by artists to express their works. Paper-cutting with opera as the theme is also the most typical and representative performance object in Gaoping folk paper-cutting. The shapes are exaggerated and full, and the images are vivid and vivid. Gaoping's unique geographical and economic conditions have nurtured and nourished many folk artists. Cheng Manzhi from Qiaonan Village, Niuzhuang Township, has loved paper-cutting since childhood. He has been cutting all his life and has left many exquisite works. Among them, "Twelve Zodiac Signs" won the first prize of the "Shanxi Folk Paper-cutting Grand Festival" in 1986. His paper-cutting focuses on the rich atmosphere of life and labor scenes in the selection of materials. He often cuts whatever he wants. Although paper-cutting is small, it has a great impact on the world. It is a form of expression of artistic emotions that is inseparable from the lives of working people. In recent years, it has made great progress in subject matter, techniques and skills. It has gradually separated from practicality and developed in the direction of pure art, becoming a unique flower in the folk art of our city.