Paper cut (Shanghai paper cut)

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

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

Project No.: 315

Project No.: Ⅶ - 16

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanghai

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

Protection unit: Fenglin Road sub district office of Shanghai Xuhui District People's Government

Brief introduction of paper cut (Shanghai paper cut)

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

Shanghai paper-cut appeared in the early 20th century, when it was mostly used as door paper, shoe flowers and embroidery patterns. In the nearly 100 years of historical evolution, Shanghai paper-cut has gradually formed a distinctive "Shanghai style".

Wang zigan is the representative of "Shanghai style" paper-cut. He inherits the traditional skills and integrates the rough and bold northern paper-cut with the delicate and smooth Southern paper-cut, showing a strong artistic personality. His works are concise and exaggerated, with strong decoration, including flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds, animals, landscapes, and buildings. Another representative of "Shanghai style" paper-cut, Lin Ximing, has found a new way to integrate various painting elements into paper-cut. The two representatives learned from each other and improved together, which promoted the development of Shanghai paper-cut.

Under the influence of the open city culture, Shanghai paper-cut has formed a "Shanghai style" characteristic which integrates the advantages of the north and the south. It is bold but not rough, delicate but not rigid, pays attention to the beauty of form, and is full of life atmosphere. It occupies a unique position in all kinds of paper-cut in the country.

With the deepening of the marketization of urban economy, Shanghai paper-cut has been impacted by modern industrial civilization and high technology, and its inheritance and development are in crisis, which needs to be protected.