Near the end of the year, cut a window flower to make this year more flavorful. Cao Jing is an inheritor of Linwei paper-cutting, she began to learn paper-cutting from the age of 40, with the ingenuity and intention of the heart, the works are famous far and wide, she said, no matter what to do, you must be quiet, do it with your heart always has gains, often pick up scissors at night to start working, a cut will forget the time.
On January 23, as the snowflakes fell on the land of Eastern Qin, Cao Jing sat at home, took out scissors and colored paper, and cut out a cute tiger window flower in a short while.
In Cao Jing's home, it is like an exhibition hall of paper-cutting art, and the walls are full of various paper-cut works. Hanging at the door is a pair of framed paper-cut works called Fu Pig Linmen, which in addition to the core element Fu Pig, also contains elements such as swallow primrose, bat with money (meaning that the blessing is in front of the eyes), each of which represents a good and blessing.
She said that paper-cutting is an intangible cultural heritage with a history of thousands of years, and her association with paper-cutting is inseparable from the influence of her family. When she was a child, she liked to draw and cut some things by hand, and later she studied art and learned more about traditional paper-cutting.
"Before the age of 40, cutting things was all for myself, and I really did it as a career after the age of 40." She said that in 2010, she went to see a paper-cutting exhibition, the paper-cut works on display were completely different from the small window flowers she knew, and there were many large-scale landscapes, history, characters and other themes, in addition to paper-cutting and knife carvings and other forms, which made her suddenly find her ideals.
Since then, Cao Jing has begun to learn professional paper-cutting knowledge and put it into practice. Thanks to her love for paper-cutting since she was a child, coupled with hard work and continuous innovation, her works are getting better and better, and are loved by many people.
In recent years, she has created an eight-meter-long paper-cut "Soaring", which won the gold medal of the Weinan Arts and Crafts Fine Arts Exhibition; it took a year to create hundreds of paper-cut works by creating hundreds of paper-cut works based on the legends of guanzhong hundreds of monsters, and selected thirty of them to form four three-meter-long horizontal shafts, named "Guanzhong Memory", and once represented Shaanxi Province to participate in the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition and won the bronze medal.
She said that paper-cutting is an art that has been passed down for thousands of years and has a unique charm that often makes her addicted to it. As long as she has time, she will pick up scissors, let the scissors move with her heart, create more natural and casual works, sometimes want to cut a while before going to bed at night, often pick up the scissors and forget the time, busy until one or two o'clock to remember that it is time to sleep.
Nowadays, her daughter is also learning modern paper-cutting under the influence of influence, and Cao Jing is also tutoring paper-cutting clubs for primary and secondary school students in many schools in the city, and she wants to pass on her mastery skills to more people, so that Linwei paper-cutting is getting better and better and more famous.
Huashang Daily reporter Xing Xuexue Editor Guo Qiaona Li Yue Yang Tuo