Every lunar month, Anse's mother-in-law and women would gather together to cut paper and paste window flowers. However, this year, in addition to giving their own window flowers, they also completed a huge paper-cut scroll of 13 meters long and 2 meters wide jointly created by 100 women, "Hundred Tiger Pictures", to express their expectations and blessings for the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger. Today's "New Year Walking grassroots" let us follow the Folk Paper-cutting Artists of Anse to feel the charm of Anse paper-cutting and enjoy the huge paper-cut long scroll "Hundred Tigers".
In the studio of Ansai folk paper-cutting artist Yu Zeling, the reporter saw that Yu Zeling and her five or six sisters gathered around a square table, humming a small song written by themselves in their mouths, and the scissors in their hands were not idle, flying up and down, and after a while of kung fu, a picture of "tigers" with different forms was displayed in front of the reporter's eyes.
Ansai District folk paper-cutting artist Yu Zeling
You see I cut this this year is "every year there are yu tigers", this is "auspicious Ruyi tiger", the most satisfactory is "Ansai waist drum tiger", because the Ansai waist drum is our national intangible heritage protection project, you see how dexterous this tiger jumps up and dances, the two drumsticks are danced, as if the tiger is mighty, the meaning of soaring into the sky.
The reporter learned that Yu Zeling cut more than a dozen large and small tigers, and finally carefully selected, and finally decided to include her most satisfactory "Ansai Waist Drum Tiger" in the long volume of "Hundred Tiger Charts". Similarly, in Ansai folk paper-cutting artist Han Shu Aijia, there are also several good sisters who are working with her to create together, she told reporters, from the conception to the completion of a work takes two days, and it is really not easy to finally have a work that she is satisfied with.
Ansai District folk paper-cutting artist Han Shu'ai
I cut a lot of little tigers, and cut a big tiger with a small tiger, hoping to add wings in the new year, all the best, and the family is happy!
It is understood that the creation of paper-cut long scroll "Hundred Tiger Figures" was initiated by the Ansai Handicraft Association, in just 10 days, under the skillful cutting of 100 mother-in-law women, 100 "tigers" with different shapes finally gathered in the 13 meters long and two meters wide "Hundred Tiger Figures" paper-cut giant scrolls.
Chen Lianlian, President of the Ansai Women's Handicraft Association
I organized a hundred women and created 100 works in the Year of the Tiger, hoping to bring New Year blessings to the people of the whole country, and in the new year, I wish the people of the whole country the Year of the Tiger and good luck! ( Zhang Zhilin Liu Ying)
Source: Anse Media