Paper cutting is a precious traditional culture, what are its meanings?

Different paper-cuts have different meanings, pomegranate paper-cuts mean more children and grandchildren, more blessings and more longevity; Peacock paper-cutting means beauty and love; Plum blossom paper-cut means pure, pure, deep and confident. The symbolic meaning of paper-cutting reflects people's rich artistic imagination through paper-cut patterns, and expresses people's love for life and art.

It can pass on this national culture, and it is a very good combination of images, the meaning is also very good, and it is an art, and the most important thing is that it has its own unique special language. The general meaning is very good, and it is generally always the dragon and phoenix are auspicious or auspicious.

His meaning is, auspicious, warding off evil spirits, having many children and grandchildren, happiness, harvest, mourning, etc., and people pass on the style of paper-cutting from generation to generation, and it is also very popular with people in modern times.

Paper-cutting actually represents a beautiful meaning, and you can cut out the patterns you want, it feels very powerful, and it can also make you feel the beauty of art, reflecting the superb skills of craftsmen.

1. Paper-cutting is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities of folk art, which has a broad mass base and blends into the life of the people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities.

2. Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, express the social recognition, moral concepts, practical experience, life ideals and aesthetic tastes of the general public, and have multiple social values such as cognition, education, ideology, lyricism, entertainment, and communication.

3. Paper-cutting is good at combining a variety of objects together, and producing the ideal beautiful results, the pursuit of auspicious metaphor has become one of the ultimate goals of the image combination, which stimulates people's thirst for a happy life, people pray for abundant food and clothing, prosperity, health and longevity, and all the best.

Paper-cutting is a valuable traditional culture, what is it used for? Sticking, that is, directly pasting on doors and windows, walls, lighting, ribbons and other decorations. Such as paper-cutting, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, cigarette grid flowers, lantern flowers, paper tie flowers, doormats, etc.; Fireworks:

Paper-cuts are pasted on cakes, noodles, eggs and other gifts. In the Chaozhou area of Guangdong, it is called "cake flower" as "fruit tree flower", and in Pingyang, Zhejiang, it is called "round pot flower". The fireworks theme is more festive and auspicious.

In Shandong province, people put paper-cuts on "happy eggs" to celebrate the birth of children, or dye eggs red to reveal white patterns. In rural Fujian Province, people give each other birthday gifts with turtle motifs that symbolize longevity. There are turtle-shaped cakes and turtle-shaped paper cutouts.

Door sticker: also known as "hanging sticker", "hanging money", "red sticker", "happy sticker", "door color", "Zhai ultima". It is generally used for upper beams or beams.

Its style is pennant-shaped, with a large head, wide sides, and tassels below. They are mostly carved on red paper, but there are also other colors or color schemes. The patterns are mostly geometric patterns or mosaic characters, flowers, dragons and phoenixes and auspicious words, such as "Celebrating the World", "Guotai Min'an", "More than Every Year", "Wind and Sunshine", "Golden Jade and Golden Jade", "Magpie Dengmei", "Fushou Fugui", "Shoubi Year" and so on.

Happiness" and "Five Industries of Prosperity". When posting, or a word, or a piece of content, a set of hanging, generally more than five should be posted. In addition to removing the old accidents of spring seals, the note on the door also has the meaning of exorcism and blessing.

Traditional Chinese culture - paper-cutting (special purpose) is placed in the lining, that is, used to decorate gifts, dowries, offerings, offerings. Such as happy flowers, flowers for flowers, fireworks, candlestick flowers, barrel fragrant flowers, Chongyang flag; Wedding flowers: Paper-cuts used to decorate various utensils and interior furnishings at weddings.

Tea sets, soap discs, basins and other daily necessities are usually lined with paper cutouts and pasted on the vanity mirror. The theme of the Happiness Flower pattern is to emphasize the meaning of auspiciousness and happiness. The color is bright red, and the modeling style is round, square, diamond-shaped, peach-shaped, pomegranate-shaped, etc., and it is equipped with various auspicious patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, magpies, flowers, and peonies.

The typography adopts the "flower within a flower" approach.

Bean fragrant flower: It is a kind of multi-color paper-cutting, which is used to decorate traditional folk activities such as worshipping ancestors and worshipping gods. The themes of paper-cutting are mostly auspicious patterns such as opera, historical stories, folklore, flowers, and characters.

The color matching is generally composed of gold and bright red, pink, green, blue, orange, light yellow, black and other wax paper, which is rich in color and has a very strong effect.

Paper-cutting is both folk and artistic. As a kind of folk art, paper-cutting art originated from working people to meet their own material and emotional needs. The popularity of the long period and the breadth of the region can be compared with any kind of traditional art.

From the southern frontier to the northwest desert, from the villages of the Yunnan-Guizhou ethnic minorities to the fishermen in the eastern suburbs, there are paper-cutting creation activities everywhere. As a plastic art of laborers, paper-cutting entrusts the ideals and beliefs of working people and expresses the joys, sorrows and sorrows of producers. It is accompanied by festive festivals, ceremonial memorials and other civil activities, used to embellish on the festive utensils, or decorated between the doors and windows, or pasted in the color kite paper, or as an embroidery base for the female red use, in short, paper-cutting is closely related to folk life.

Beautification adorns every aspect of life.

The theme and content of paper-cutting are extremely rich, myths and legends, opera characters, insects, fish, flowers and birds, all-inclusive, around the good wishes of praying for blessing and auspiciousness and flowers and full moon, theme creation, very clever use of homophonic techniques, expressing profound meanings, such as chicken homonym for "auspicious", sheep homonym for "auspicious"; The homonym of the deer is "Lu", and Ruyi is cut together with the vase, implying Ping (bottle) An Ruyi and so on.

Paper-cutting culture is one of the oldest folk arts of the Han nationality in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years.

Paper-cut culture originated from the social life of people of all ethnic groups, is an important part of various folk activities, paper-cut culture contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses the social understanding of the general public, life ideals and aesthetic taste, can not only decorate people's lives, but also a traditional cultural heritage.

There are many pictures of production and life in folk paper-cutting, such as big fish, big peppers, big silkworms, big grains, etc., all of which exaggerate the main body and fictionalize people's yearning and expectations for a better life.

The use of paper-cutting is also relatively wide, one is to post, directly on the doors and windows, walls, lights, color as decoration, common window flowers, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, smoke lattices, paper flowers, lantern flowers, door notes, etc.

In addition, it can be used as a foil for decorating gifts, dowries, offerings, and offerings. Such as happy flowers, candlestick flowers, offering flowers, bucket incense flowers, ceremonial flowers, Chongyang flags, etc., can also be used for clothing, shoes and hats, pillows, etc. as embroidery samples.

The process of paper-cutting can be written like this with words such as "folding, drawing, cutting, and appreciating".

Today the teacher taught us how to cut paper. We first took out a rectangular piece of paper, folded it in half, and drew half of the butterfly in the middle of the crease. We took out our scissors again and cut out half of the butterfly branches along the drawing line. Finally, we were able to enjoy a lifelike butterfly.

The significance of paper-cutting cultureThe art of paper-cutting is an important carrier of China's culture, the product of Chinese culture and thousands of years of historical accumulation, and a people-oriented, oral and living cultural tradition on the land of China. It embodies the modeling consciousness, aesthetic ideals and philosophical concepts of Chinese folk art, and also provides a broad space for artistic creation.

Its styling characteristics, formal beauty and frank feeling have opened up a colorful, broad and profound cultural gene pool for us. The art of paper-cutting has a strong and vivid vitality, showing a "form of life".