Chinese Paper Cutting is a folk art to create various designs or patterns with scissors or engraving knives for the decoration or ornament in various folk activities.
As a traditional folk art, Paper Cutting is a very popular art with a very long history.
The art of Paper Cutting was created almost at the same time with the birth of paper and has unique features.
Paper Cutting creates a motley collection of designs and images, which contain rich cultural and historical information, and most importantly are loaded with common people's emotional pursuit and aesthetic sense.
These Paper Cutting creations convey multiple meanings: emotional expression, meaning conveyance, entertainment, commemoration, communication and so on.
The skills of Paper Cutting are easy to learn, and its tools and materials are readily accessible. The Paper Cutting creators are usually the ingenious and crafty folk women.
The working scenes, images of some characters, animals and plants, folklores, auspicious designs and expectations for a better future are the Paper Cutting creators' favorite subjects.
Traditional Paper Cutting creation is not confined by time and space, because the flexible combination, coordination of the subjects within one space or different spaces can exhibit unique creative perspectives and expressive techniques.
Such free and whimsical creative techniques, which boast features of the times and reflect the connotation of humanity are the reflection of working people's ideals and sentiments.
The art of Paper Cutting is the crystallization of the wisdom and creation of the Chinese people. Till today, it still possesses its unique values of art and aesthetics.
Today the craftsmen are creating works of art loaded with values of modern society with advanced technology, more creative skills and artistic techniques.
As inheritors of the art of Paper Cutting, they are carrying forward its fine tradition and revitalizing it.
来源：每日英文语录
Source: Daily English Saying
校对：唐婷玉
Proofread by: Tang Tingyu
编辑：黄乔珺
Edited by: Huang Qiaojun
复审：占妍
Reviewed by: Zhan Yan
终审：杨欢
Final Reviewed by: Yang Huan
