Chang Xinbao, a native of Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province. Born in 1954 in Changfang paper-cutting family, he is a party member, the inheritor of China's contemporary intangible literary heritage, an outstanding contemporary Chinese artist, and a senior arts and crafts artist. He is a member of the Chinese Folk Writers Association, a member of the Jiangxi Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a standing director of the Xinyu Civic Association, a vice president of the Xinyu Sculpture Society, a member of the Xinyu Expert Association, a vice chairman of the Organizing Committee of the New Era China Dream International Competition, a deputy director of the Jiangxi Creation Society Intangible Cultural Heritage Innovation Education Professional Committee, a member of the Jiangxi Arts and Crafts Society, and a Jiangxi folk cattle person with deep hidden merits and fame in 2016. Influenced by ancestral paper-cutting since childhood, he gradually integrated painting with paper-cutting art, and practiced an amazing paper-cutting skill. He has been hired as a paper-cutting art tutor by provincial, municipal, district, college, primary and secondary schools and urban fire brigades.
In the past 59 years, he has studied diligently on the road of paper-cutting art, continuously innovated, stacked masterpieces, exquisite skills, broad vision, and rich forms of expression. Regardless of flowers, birds, fish and insects, historical allusions, myths and legends, opera characters, rigorous composition, exaggerated shapes, and lifelike. He is the best at portrait paper-cutting, with realistic human figures and a unique Changfang paper-cutting style. In recent years, the collection and collation of decades of paper-cutting works has been compiled into a book called "Changxinbao Paper-cutting Art Collection", and later comprehensively collected and sorted out fragments of endangered folk paper-cutting art in Xinyu area. With the strong support and help of the Xinyu Civic Writers Association and leaders and artists at all levels, the Changxinbao Paper-cutting Collection was edited into two episodes in 2015, and the book for the first time launched the Changfang Folk Paper-cutting Art Protection Program and Development Concept, so that the folk paper-cutting art can be carried forward and passed on from generation to generation.
His paper-cut works are exported to china and abroad, and have been selected for the global distribution of the "Hong Kong and Macao Stamp Collection of Famous Chinese Artists" and the "China Post Collector's Album" and the "Century-old Chinese Masterpieces Large-scale Documentary Collection" for national distribution. The best works such as "The Chinese Dream, the Party Seeks Happiness for the People, Always Follow the Party, Illuminating the Thousand Autumns, Guarding Peace, The Legend of Fairy Lake, Meeting at Queqiao, Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Party, Knowing the History of the Party and Loving the Country" were selected into the history books of "China's Great Journey". On July 19, 2021, the "China Traditional Culture Development Center, Senior Artist Title Review Committee" reviewed Chang Xinbao: honored as "Senior Arts and Crafts Artist".
In February 2022, the large-scale paper-cut works of "The Soul of China", "Always Follow the Party" and "China Must Win" were selected into the "Chinese Artist Ceremony" and awarded the honorary title of "Contemporary Jiejie Artist".
On March 29, 2022, works such as "Don't Forget the Initial Heart and Forge Ahead", "The Soul of China" and other works were specially awarded the honorary title of "Chinese Meritorious Artist" by the leaders of the Huaxia Chensmith Calligraphy and Painting Academy, the People's Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and the Chinese Traditional Culture Development Committee. His masterpieces have won many national, provincial and municipal awards.
Paper-cutting belongs to the art of hollowing out, which is a kind of folk art that is widely spread. It has a long history, originating from the ancestor worship and worship of gods by the ancients, and its history can be traced back to the sixth century AD according to archaeology. Decorative and plastic arts, etc. On May 20, 2006, the art of paper-cutting was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Chang Xinbao once recalled the past when he first became interested in paper-cutting: the north wind was raging on the right side of the river, and the gaps in the window ledges of the earthen house could not block the biting cold wind, at this time, my grandmother and aunt bought back red paper and white paper, white window stickers, and red window cut flowers. One by one, red flowers bloomed, butterflies fluttered their wings, and pieces of red paper suddenly became beautiful patterns. The young Chang Xinbao watched in amazement, and his heart was full of admiration and admiration. The seeds of the art of paper-cutting have silently moisturized his heart in this way, and they have been until today. His paper-cut works have a temperature of more than fifty years of love, with the heat of full dedication, the characters and things under his scissors, smooth, refined, clean, convey the truth, goodness and beauty, promote mainstream values, give people full of positive energy, and make our society more pure. An ordinary piece of colored paper, an ordinary pair of scissors, can create a beautiful work of art, which is really breathtaking.
The red spirit is passed down from generation to generation, the people have faith, the nation has hope, the country has strength, and China is already prosperous and full of hope! Chang Xinbao, the inheritor of traditional art intangible paper-cutting, picked up scissors and carefully drew and created a series of red paper-cut works, recording and praising their great achievements!
Attached to the intangible cultural heritage paper-cut inheritor Chang Xinbao some of the works to appreciate: