Zigong Paper-cutting

Sichuan
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Paper-cutting, also known as paper-cutting or paper-cutting, is an excellent traditional art with a history of more than 3,000 years in my country. After the appearance of Cai Lun paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty, paper-cutting art was further popularized and developed. Zigong folk paper-cutting is also very popular, mainly including shoe flowers, window flowers, pillow flowers, waist flowers, etc. The content is mainly "Four Grains and One Harvest", "Prosperity of Livestock", "Year after Year of Abundance", etc., to express people's yearning for a better life. Zigong paper-cutting is simple and simple, with vivid interest. It is not only highly praised in Sichuan, but also has a certain influence abroad. Comrade Guo Moruo once personally inscribed "China Zigong Paper-cutting" for Zigong paper-cutting, which shows that it enjoys a certain reputation. Yu Manbai's paper-cutting represents the tendency and achievement of Zigong folk paper-cutting art. He organically combines the Jiangsu and Zhejiang paper-cutting, which is mainly based on curves and delicate, with the northern paper-cutting, which is mainly based on blocks and vigorous and rough, to form a unique style. In addition, he also draws nutrition from side arts such as epigraphy, calligraphy, stone carving, Han bricks and even shadow puppets, and has achieved artistic achievements. Yu Manbai's works were once selected by the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts as one of the teaching reference works. His paper-cut works such as "Fish Song" and "Harvest Return" were exhibited abroad and received praise from foreign friends. His representative work "Great Unity of All Nationalities" was exhibited at the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1978 and was widely welcomed and sold well both at home and abroad. The artistic characteristics of Yu Manbai's paper-cut are mainly: 1. The shape structure is no longer a photographic simulation of the real shape, but an artistic image cleverly conceived by the author. 2. Various patterns such as dots, sawtooth, animals and other patterns are used to form the artistic vocabulary and language of paper-cutting, which is used to organize or enrich the artistic image and enhance the artistic appeal. 3. The contrast between strong blocks and soft lines is used to form the melody and rhythm of art, and sometimes it can also express the charm of gold and stone and calligraphy. After years of development, paper-cutting tools have gradually been replaced by carving. Scissors can only cut one or two layers of simple patterns at a time, while wax engraving can carve 10 to 20 layers at a time, and the patterns are much more delicate, and the expression techniques are more diverse. In terms of materials, it has also expanded from paper to aluminum gold paper and other materials, which greatly enhances the expressiveness and appeal of the works. Zigong paper-cutting, a specialty of Zigong, Sichuan, is one of the three unique things in Zigong. It is also called paper-cutting or paper-cutting, and is an excellent traditional folk art. Zigong paper-cutting mainly includes shoe flowers, window flowers, pillow flowers, waist flowers, etc. The content is mainly "Abundant Harvest", "Prosperity of Livestock", "Year after Year of Abundance", etc., to express people's yearning for a better life. Zigong paper-cutting is simple and unsophisticated, with vivid interest, and is deeply loved by people.

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