As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the Zodiac has left a large number of poems, Spring Festivals, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk craft works that depict its image and symbolic significance.
Cutting a hundred zodiac figures of that year is the habit of Li Xia, a paper-cutting artist from Jilin City. There are still more than half a month before the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Tiger (壬寅年). She has already created the "Hundred Tiger Chart" early.
Li Xia said that in order to cut these tigers, she had made a lot of effort. In order to cut into a hundred tigers with different shapes, Li Xia once went to the provincial and municipal libraries to read the rubbings about tigers, went to the Northeast Tiger Garden in Changchun City, Jiangnan Park in Jilin City, and other places to observe the tigers outside the cage. Tiger Crouching, Tiger Running, Tiger Leaping, Tiger Standing - When more than a hundred tigers rushed and jumped in her mind, the tigers under the scissors sprouted one by one.
Li Xia used the fragmentary time of the year to cut more than a hundred tigers, pick out a whole hundred "tigers", and frame them on the unique wool paper of the Changbai Mountains with a length of 27 meters and a width of 16 centimeters. The Manchu folk paper-cutting of the Huang clan in Jilin Wula is also an ancestral technique that has been handed down for hundreds of years in the northeast region. The two blended together, simple and concise, and converged into a new blessing: "Fu Shang Jia Fu (Tiger)", "Fu (Tiger) Complete Life".
Source: Cailian News