Bai's paper-cut in Lingqiu

Lingqiu Bai's paper-cut is located in Lingqiu County, Datong City, on the northeast edge of Shanxi Province. It has a long history and a rich collection of humanities. Bai's paper-cutting has its own artistic style with unique artistry and functionality. Its craft emphasizes exquisite knife cutting, refined lines, concise modeling, bright and harmonious colors, and harmonious artistic language, which gives people a clear, lively, pleasant and exquisite feeling. Therefore, it is praised by peers as the highest, and it can be called "a must for China folk paper-cutting". Lingqiu paper-cutting has a long history. As early as 1066 BC-771 BC, in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there was the saying of "cutting tung and sealing brother". At that time, Cheng Wang cut the leaves of phoenix tree into an image of Yu Gui and gave it to his brother, and sealed Ji Yu as king in Tang Dynasty. This image of Yu Gui was the earliest paper-cutting in Shanxi. According to textual research, Bai's paper-cut took shape in the Tang Dynasty, formed in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and has been inherited to this day. Bai's paper-cutting represented by Bai Yu takes the constant carving and paper-cutting as its modeling structure means, and uses natural and generous colors to give vitality to the modeling. One side of paper-cut is carefully designed and the samples are smoked, engraved, cut and dyed. At the same time, the forms of intaglio engraving, positive engraving, folding engraving, duplicate engraving, flat dyeing, color registration and color washing are selected to express various artistic images. Make it rich in content, ingenious, and resonate with the appreciator. In recent years, with the advocacy and support of Lingqiu Culture and Sports Bureau and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, folk talent exhibitions have been held many times, which have been well received by provincial, municipal and county leaders and improved the enthusiasm of creating paper-cuts. It has injected new vitality into the reproduction of this paper-cut. Paper-cut works have also become foreign affairs gifts in Korea. Bai's paper-cut with practical value of appreciation and collection has also been integrated into the world culture from the traditional regional culture.
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