Fuyang Paper Cutting

Anhui
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Paper-cutting, also known as paper-cutting, flower-cutting, and flower-cutting, is a kind of folk art created by our ancient working people. Fuyang is located in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River and belongs to the Central Plains culture of the Yellow River and Huaihe River Basin. The artistic style of Fuyang paper-cutting has both the delicacy, beauty, and exquisiteness of southern paper-cutting, and the thickness, naivety, and natural simplicity of northern paper-cutting, forming a free and easy style in thickness, softness in strength, elegance in simplicity, and subtlety in roughness, achieving a harmonious unity of cleverness and clumsiness, stillness and movement, and virtuality and reality. Fuyang paper-cutting is mainly single-color (red), but there are also types such as dyeing, collage, and overprinting. The techniques include cutting, carving and tearing. The equipment used includes various practical scissors and carving knives (homemade and purchased wax plates (made of butter, wind wax, plant ash, etc.). The paper is mostly red and other colored rice paper or special colored paper, which is generally thin, tough, and has pure and uniform colors. From the existing materials, the paper-cuts such as "Lanqiaohui", "Mudi" and "Jita" collected by Fuyang Museum are all Fuyang paper-cut works in the Qing Dynasty, used for shoe flowers and socks. The works have simple composition, vivid images, and cut edges. Clear and imaginative. Since 1976, Fuyang has conducted a census of paper-cutting artists in the entire region (including Bozhou and other cities and counties) and collected and sorted out their works. Since 1978, it has been exhibited many times at home and abroad, causing a sensation, and discovered a group of influential folk paper-cutting artists at home and abroad, such as Cheng Jianli and Wang Jiahe. In 2001, Jieshou in Fuyang City was approved by the Ministry of Culture as the "National Paper-Cutting Art Hometown". In 2002, farmer paper-cutting artist Cheng Jianli was named a Chinese folk paper-cutting master by the Chinese Paper-Cutting Research Association.

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