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Paper cutting, engraving, coloring... In the paper-cutting museum in the commercial street of Juguo Ancient City, Yu Hongzheng, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "Juxian Gate Notes", led the students to explain the history and production techniques of the door notes while demonstrating the production process. After a while, an ordinary piece of colored paper gradually became a beautiful paper-cut work in her moment.
Sticking fu characters and sticking spring festivals are the "standard" for celebrating the Spring Festival. In Shandong Province, in some counties and cities represented by Juxian County, the Spring Festival sticker "door note" is also a tradition for every household to celebrate the Spring Festival.
"Passing the door note, falling door note, falling on the ground are all money." The traditional door note is about one foot long and about seven inches wide, with a pattern engraved in the middle, and the hollowed-out veneer has square hole money patterns, swastikas, water ripples, etc., and the lower ones are spike-shaped. Each set of 5 or 6 sheets varies in color. Because of the beautiful meaning, whenever the Spring Festival comes, the door note is posted on the lintel by every household, together with the Spring Festival. When the breeze blows, the colorful door notes flip with the wind, adding a lot of color to the already lively holiday atmosphere.
As a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project "Juxian Gate Note", Yu Hong, an art teacher at Juxian No. 2 Middle School, took over the baton from his father's hands, so that this ancient art, which could only be seen during the Spring Festival, had a new production process and form of expression, and was revitalized.
"The production of the door note has been passed down to me for four generations. I grew up watching my father make door notes, and I still felt commonplace and didn't have much interest. But my father often taught me that this was a treasure left by the older generation and must be passed on. Yu Hong recalled.
In Yu Hong's workshop, the vast space is arranged by her paper-cutting works into a "world of flowers and flowers", in which you can not only see the traditional door notes, but also see various patterns of paper-cutting with the characteristics of the times. At this time, the door note is not only an ornament that can only be found during the Spring Festival, but has evolved into a work of art that carries a party's culture.
The reporter saw that Yu Hong's creative tools were many, and there were twenty or thirty lithography knives. "The door notes are all chromatic paper cuts, she first chisels out a large outline with a chisel, and then changes the carving knife to cut, the delicate part of the picture, and then uses scissors to cut it carefully." As she spoke, she picked up a piece of colored paper and demonstrated it to the reporter. Only to see her pick up a small pair of scissors, with the tip of the scissors on the paper quickly flipped over, two or three minutes later, a delicate door note was completed.
The reporter learned that in recent years, the local government of Juxian County has strengthened its guidance and policy support for the project. Through the excavation of various traditional crafts such as chromatic, overprinting, and overprinting, various new styles have been produced to promote, and skillful old artists have been organized to drive relatives, neighbors, and the whole village to increase the radiation surface and promote the rapid improvement of the process. Through art festivals, paper-cutting competitions, folk art exhibitions and other activities, it also evaluates the merits of the first trees, encourages and praises the artists who make "door notes", and continuously carries forward this folk art form.