Paper cut (Ansai paper cut)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: paper cut (Ansai paper cut)

Applicant: Ansai County, Shaanxi Province

Project No.: 315

Project No.: Ⅶ - 16

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shaanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Ansai County, Shaanxi Province

Protected by: Cultural Relics Museum of Ansai District, Yan'an City (intangible cultural heritage protection center of Ansai District, Yan'an City)

Introduction to paper cutting (Ansai paper cutting)

Applicant: Ansai County, Shaanxi Province

Ansai paper cutting is a popular folk art in Ansai County, Shaanxi Province. On most festive days, Ansai women have to cut paper and stick window decorations. On December day, women gather together and cut paper for the Spring Festival. As the new year approaches, every household's new white window paper is covered with red and green paper cuts. In this way, a village is a paper-cut art exhibition.

Some experts commented that Shaanxi paper-cut is in Northern Shaanxi, and Northern Shaanxi paper-cut is in Ansai. Ansai paper-cut is not only beautiful in appearance and exquisite in workmanship, but also has profound historical and cultural connotations, including aesthetics, history, philosophy, folklore, archaeology, cultural anthropology and other aspects. It is known as "cultural relic on the ground" and "living fossil" of culture.

Ansai paper-cut has various forms, simple and concise style, rough and bright lines, simple and simple meaning, and full of hope for peace and auspiciousness.