Paper cut (new dry paper cut)

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

Applicant: Xingan County, Jiangxi Province

Project No.: 315

Project No.: Ⅶ - 16

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jiangxi Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Xingan County, Jiangxi Province

Protection unit: Xingan County Cultural Center

Introduction to paper cutting (new dry paper cutting)

Applicant: Xingan County, Jiangxi Province

Xingan paper-cut, a traditional folk art with a long history, is mainly spread in Xingan County, Jiangxi Province.

In the folk of Xingan, the popular paper-cut is inherited and developed in the form of "family inheritance" or "mutual education". New dry paper-cut is mostly used to decorate rooms, doors and windows, or for weddings, festivities, festivals, funerals and other aspects of people's life, such as women's skirt flower, shoes flower, head cover flower, door curtain, children's hat, mouth flail flower and spring festival color curtain, funerals with soul room, longevity shoes, ghost clothes, paper money, etc. The paper used is bright red and green, which can set off a festive and warm atmosphere, implying good fortune and happiness Wealth, prosperity, prosperity and other good wishes, in order to enrich and beautify life.

Xingan paper-cut is mainly made of lines with simple and plain pictures. It is in the same line with the Shang Dynasty bronze and jade relics unearthed in Xingan, and has strong local characteristics. The selected themes are not only exotic flowers and flowers, livestock and rare birds, allusions of characters, folklore, scenes of production, life and labor, but also reflect current affairs, politics, family and state affairs. During the creation, the skilful paper-cut artists use a pair of scissors and a few pieces of colored paper to cut works with lively, rich content and rich flavor of life. They can cut whatever they want with the free play of the paper-cut artists.

Xingan paper-cut is the product of agricultural civilization. With the process of social modernization, Xingan paper-cut is faced with the problem of no successor, which needs to be paid attention to.