Fine line paper cutting

Fine line paper cutting, also known as fine line engraving paper, is popular in Yueqing. At first, it was mostly used for dragon boat lights or window lattice decoration. Later, women used it as embroidery base map and embroidered it into hat flowers, shoe flowers, belly flowers and belly flowers, so it was also called flower cutting. This kind of fine line engraving paper has a beautiful composition and a subtle knife method. The width of fine lines is only one millimeter, and 1 cm wide tissue paper can carve 22 knives, each knife is less than half a millimeter apart, as thin as hair; And dense, harmonious and beautiful. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, on the basis of inheriting the tradition, the carved paper with fine lines is innovative, with both flowers, birds and figures. Its representative works "Military and Civilian Fish and Water", "After School" and "Textile Girl" have been exhibited at home and abroad, which has a wide influence. Chen Chaofen's "Octagonal Pisces" won the international prize in 1956, and Zhang Houguang won the first prize in the 1987 National Paper-cutting Grand Prix.
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