Cutting window grilles is not traditional Chinese culture

China is an ancient country, and its traditional culture has a long and colorful history. There are folk craft ceramics, national art dramas, Chinese paintings, customs and habits Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat racing, Lantern Festival lanterns and so on, but the most worth mentioning is the folk art paper-cutting.

Paper-cutting art is one of the oldest Chinese folk arts, as a kind of hollow art, it can give people a visual sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment. Paper-cuttingUse scissors to cut paper into a variety of patterns, such as window flowers, door letters, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, lamp flowers, etc. During festivals or weddings, people put beautiful and bright paper cutouts on the windows, walls, doors and lanterns of their homes, and the festive atmosphere is thus more enthusiastic.

Paper-cutting, like all Chinese folk handicrafts, has a long history and cultural accumulation. On the basis of a full understanding of the history of Chinese paper-cutting, a correct understanding of the origin of Chinese paper-cutting will be more beneficial for us to learn paper-cutting and create paper-cutting art. In Chinese folk culture, paper-cutting has always played a pivotal role.

The earlier paper-cut art form is the paper-cut window flower that we are very familiar with today, and this hand-cut paper-cut culture is still intact to this day, which can see that the paper-cut culture of our country is very deep. Only by understanding the origin of folk paper-cutting can we correctly realize the importance of protecting paper-cutting culture and promoting paper-cutting culture.

Yes, window cutting is a folk art form, and it has been around for a long time.

Window grilles In the countryside of Shanxi on the first day of this year, almost every household has to put on new window grilles, with New Year couplets, adults and children wear new clothes, giving people a new impression.

The posting of window grilles is generally carried out after sweeping the dust.

Window grilles are folk paper-cut artworks with various colors and patterns. This folk custom with national characteristics has a history of thousands of years. Shanxi folk paper-cutting, especially window flower paper-cutting, is full of Shanxi folk local flavor and strong local flavor.

What "magpie Dengmei", "two dragons playing with pearls", "peacock opening the screen", "heavenly maiden scattered flowers" and various flowers, flowers, insects, fish, bird patterns, express the farmers' hope for the future life.

It is indeed part of our excellent traditional culture.

Strictly speaking, it should not be counted, traditional Chinese culture refers to the works of philosophical thought, such as the works of the hundred schools of thought, and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Suwen" of traditional Chinese medicine.

However, cutting window grilles should belong to traditional Chinese folk customs.

Yes, window cutting is a folk art form, and it has been around for a long time.

It is indeed part of our excellent traditional culture.

Absolutely! Because.

It's cut to the letter! Count him as cultural, it was cut during the Spring Festival, and it is considered traditional!! 1

1. The pattern of cutting window flowers is higher than life after the processing of working people, and has a unique artistic atmosphere. In traditional culture, different things have different meanings, and people carve these things onto the window grilles to give them unique meanings. For example, people on the seaside carved Mazu onto the paper-cuts, implying that Mazu blesses those who go out to sea to fish.

2. Inland people carved out Buddha statues and Guanyin, implying the peace of the family. However, there are happy people in the family often carved on the window flowers to imply festive, auspicious patterns, married people use mandarin ducks, winged birds and other patterns, implying the love of husband and wife.

3. If the cut window flowers are engraved with melons, dates and other patterns, it means that the early birth of a noble son. When the parents celebrate their birthdays, they will be engraved with patterns such as wealth, five blessings, birthday stars, and peaches, implying that the old people are better than Nanshan and the children and grandchildren are full. The pattern of paper-cutting reflects people's life, has a profound meaning, symbolizes people's yearning and pursuit of a better life, and carries the essence of traditional culture.

Window flowers have a history of thousands of years, and gradually spread and took shape in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art of paper-cutting came to maturity and reached its heyday. The traditional Chinese paper-cutting handicraft art has a wider range of applications, such as the flower ornaments on the Chinese folk lanterns, the ornaments on the fan surface, and the embroidery patterns, etc., all of which use paper-cutting as decoration for reprocessing.

Window flowers are the most widely distributed, largest and most popular varieties of Chinese folk paper-cutting. It is divided into "north-south style", and the south is beautiful with "exquisiteness", which is characterized by exquisiteness and clarity; The north is beautiful with simplicity and vividness, and it is characterized by innocence. Other paper-cut varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window grilles.