Shiping Yi paper-cutting is popular in Longwu Town, Shiping County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The Yi people in Longwu, Shiping are called Huayao Yi because their women's clothing is embroidered with beautiful flower belts. Their women's clothing is famous for its diverse patterns, bright colors and exquisite embroidery. The Yi people in Longwu area use whether they can embroider flowers as a standard to measure a woman's dexterity and intelligence, so they attach great importance to the inheritance of skills. Paper-cutting plays a decisive role in the base pattern of clothing embroidery. Generally, when a girl is eight or nine years old, her mother begins to teach her paper-cutting and embroidery, and she can operate independently when she is fourteen or fifteen years old. In the long-term process of circulation and use, Yi paper-cutting has formed strong national and regional characteristics. Longwu Yi clothing has more flower work. Almost every part of a complete set of women's clothing has embroidery. There are as many paper flowers as there are embroidery pieces. Only with exquisite paper-cutting can first-class clothing be embroidered. The main features of Yi paper-cutting are solid shapes and full compositions. Auspicious patterns such as tiger tooth flowers, gourd flowers, flame flowers, peony flowers, and birds, fish, butterflies, and peacocks are used extensively. These patterns are not only a manifestation of the Yi people's pursuit and yearning for a better life, but also contain the connotation of traditional culture and natural beliefs. For example, the flame pattern reflects the worship of fire, the tiger tooth flower is a symbol of tiger worship, the gourd flower records the ancestral belief, and the peony flower expresses the wish for a happy life. These cultural significances give the Yi paper-cutting art special historical and cultural value and artistic aesthetic value. Because of its strong regional and ethnic characteristics, it has a unique position in Chinese paper-cutting art. The Yi paper-cutting has a large number of highly skilled artists and a team of high-quality inheritors. At present, with the external publicity of Yi (Huayao Yi) women's clothing, Yi embroidery has gained a certain degree of popularity, and paper-cutting as its base has also attracted the attention of the world.