Chengde folk paper-cut

Traditional folk arts and crafts have a long history in Chengde, and paper-cutting has always been one of the most popular folk arts among Manchu and Han nationalities in Chengde. Chengde has a long history of folk paper-cutting, which has been synchronized with the 300-year-old villa culture for more than 300 years, represented by Fujia, Fengning Manchu Autonomous County and Qiaozhangzi Chen in Chengde County. Folklore is closely related to the art of paper-cutting. Whenever the local Manchu and Han residents have festivals, weddings, funerals and housewarming, paper-cutting is used to enrich their activities. Especially in the 1950s and 1960s, when most people in Chengde lived in bungalows, stick grilles (that is, paper-cutting) was required to celebrate the New Year. When we were young, it was also a big event to buy window grilles and stick grilles every Spring Festival. The paper-cut style is exquisite and unique, with a wide range of materials, changeable composition and rich imagination. It is full of strong local flavor by skillfully using artistic techniques such as implication, symbol, exaggeration and deformation. It is good at fine cutting, smooth lines, slender hair splitting, brilliant colors, lifelike figures and flowers and birds, and has high artistic value. In recent years, paper-cutting artists have skillfully combined the culture of the summer resort with the art of paper-cutting, and incorporated the four seasons beauty of the summer resort, pavilions and pavilions, folk customs, ancient rhymes of poetry and even folklore into paper-cutting materials. It has become a tourist souvenir with unique local characteristics in Chengde. If you come to Chengde, don't forget to bring some pictures and give them to your relatives and friends as a souvenir. Nowadays, with the improvement of Chengde's economy, most residents have moved into buildings and used less window grilles. However, its artistic value is increasing day by day. As a special kind of art, it has entered the folk art hall, opened a variety of fields, such as solo painting, group painting, comic book, etc. As a arts and crafts product, it has been exported to foreign countries and won many awards. It has become one of the best folk crafts in Chengde, and has been included in the list of China's intangible cultural heritage, showing her charming style to the world.
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