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Continue to pay attention to the Spring Festival special program "The Year of the Tiger Says Tiger", what we want to take you to see today is the art of handmade paper-cutting with tigers as the pattern, and when it comes to tiger paper-cutting, we will take everyone to Funan County to see it.
The Year of the Tiger Says Tiger: The Exquisite Art of Tiger Diagrams
Happy New Year The Year of the Tiger has arrived! When we got to the streets of Canal Road in Funan County, when it comes to the Year of the Tiger, we have to look for something with tiger elements here, so we just learned from the residents that a grandmother who loves the art of paper-cutting lives here.
Nearby residents have praised, Grandma Ma is skillful! Like everyone won't do it, she'll do it. Sometimes standing on the stairs in the doorway can be seen cutting her in the yard.
What the residents are saying is that we mentioned this old man Ma Yuzhen today.
Grandma Ma's home looks like an ordinary residential building, but unlike other people's homes, Grandma Ma has transformed the second floor of the house into her paper-cutting studio.
Grandma Ma' name is Ma Yuzhen, 73 years old, a retired teacher, who has been cutting paper for more than two years.
Without saying much, Grandma Ma immediately showed off her unique skills.
Ma Yuzhen said that she first drew a picture on white paper, and then put it on top with red paper, but sometimes it was drawn according to the outline, and sometimes it was drawn according to the pattern she wanted.
The image of the tiger is tall and mighty, but the tiger pattern designed by Grandma Ma is not the same.
Ma Yuzhen said that all kinds of appearances are very cute, because her own personality is amiable, unlike people who are fierce.
In order to be durable and durable, the materials used by Grandma Ma are all red rice paper of good quality, and after the sample is drawn, it is necessary to start "knife".
Ma Yuzhen told reporters that the silhouette of the cut is fast, and the flowers inside the cut are slower.
With the click of scissors, Grandma Ma cuts smooth lines, and the tiger's eyes, beard, eyelashes, these very small places especially test Grandma Ma's kung fu.
Ma Yuzhen said that these tiny places are equivalent to the façade, and observing it is to observe its face, so it is necessary to cut it well, and if it is uneven, the whole state will be different, and it will not look good.
Ma Yuzhen said that now it has basically been cut, repair it, and repair the place where the cut is uneven.
For about 20 minutes, the confetti kept falling, and when the paper cut was opened, a lifelike tiger pattern was "baked".
Ma Yuzhen said that because this year is the Year of the Tiger, just cut a spring on it, next to it is a hydrangea ball, on top of which is a plum blossom, and it is called Tiggo Yingchun.
Grandma Ma also showed us her recently completed "Hundred Tigers Celebrating the New Year". Each tiger is different, each tiger is an action, these two are just two small tigers playing and fighting together, playing together, and there are also mother and child tigers.
Ma Yuzhen said that since October last year, it has only recently been completed, and the first meaning is that it is their own life year, but also to give themselves a gift, and the other is that the people of the whole country wish everyone a happy Year of the Tiger.
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A piece of red paper and a pair of scissors, Grandma Ma carries forward the folk paper-cutting art with her skillful hands, and also enriches her old age, and Grandma Ma's greatest wish is to pass on this traditional skill.
Paper-cutting is a mainland folk handicraft, and Grandma Ma was influenced by her mother and fell in love with this traditional craft from an early age.
Ma Yuzhen said that her mother does needlework, makes shoes and clothes, because my mother can, so she will do these handicrafts and the like, I grew up watching what she did, I learned what, I just observed from the side.
Later, Ma Yuzhen became a teacher, this teaching is thirty years, during which he broke his leg on the way to work, leaving him disabled, so he did not have time to study paper-cutting again, until after retirement, he continued this idea again.
Ma Yuzhen said that she had been thinking in her heart that after retirement, she had learned something, and when she heard her daughter say that Fuyang had learned to cut paper, she went back to study.
Although she has a leg disability, In order to study systematically, Grandma Ma signed up for the paper-cutting class of Fuyang University for the Elderly, and every time she attended class, she had to rush from the county town to the city, and she never felt hard.
Ma Yuzhen said that the skills learned are remembered by themselves, remembered in their hearts, although it is difficult but not difficult, people feel that the old man, the heart is still the same as when he was a child.
Ge Tingyou, a non-hereditary heir of paper-cutting in Fuyang, said that Grandma Ma's legs are very inconvenient and she is obsessed with the love of paper-cutting art, which is very commendable.
Ge Tingyou said that Grandma Ma, with her diligence and studiousness, improved her paper-cutting skills rapidly, and from time to time she asked him for advice with her own cut works. Teach her to cut a flower, she paired the character with a pattern, with a mandarin duck, representing love.
Of course, in Grandma Ma's house, she was not the only one who cut the paper, but also her daughters.
Ma Yuzhen said that her two daughters can cut paper and teach them to pass on the traditional culture, on the one hand, they pass it on themselves, and on the other hand, they also learn it in school.
Ma Yuzhen's second daughter, Wu Jing, said that she must still learn more from the elderly, learn from each other, her mother uses scissors a little more, and her own work is a combination of cutting and carving.
Wu Jing, the second daughter who has a special love for paper-cutting, is an art teacher at the First Primary School in Funan County, and often competes with Grandma Ma at home on weekdays.
Wu Jing said that when the mother cut it out to see herself, she cut it out to show her mother, pointed out the advantages and disadvantages, and studied each other.
Of course, Wu Jing also brought these handmade paper cuts to the classroom to let the students learn about learning traditional arts.
Now if you cut a small tiger folded in half, you only need to fold the paper in half and draw it half a tiger.
Wu Jing said that the children are very interested, because they not only use their hands, but also use their brains, and they feel very magical, and when they finish a work, they have a sense of achievement and are very happy.
What makes Wu Jing happy is that the school has opened an intangible cultural heritage class, many children like to cut paper, and even have their own ideas, sometimes even if they have to work overtime after class, they will accompany their children to practice paper cutting.
Students say that cutting paper can calm the mind, and sometimes a little detail will cut out a big mistake.
Wu Jing said that she generally inspires children to have their own thoughts and try to create their own.
Liu Haijuan, an art teacher and researcher in the teaching and research department of the Funan County Education Bureau, said that paper-cutting is even more improving children's aesthetic ability, improving their labor awareness, and enhancing their hands-on ability.
Now, Grandma Ma and Wu Jing have an idea, and they are applying for a local intangible cultural heritage project, hoping to pass on the traditional skills.
Ge Tingyou said that Grandma Ma will cultivate more students by passing on the paper cut to her daughter and bringing her daughter into the classroom.
Wu Jing said that in their local area, the paper-cutting culture will continue to be passed on, relying on the platform of the student community to cultivate students' children to love this culture from an early age.
Small paper cuts, passing on big energy, we look forward to Grandma Ma to create more and better works.
The Year of the Tiger in 2022 has arrived, and together with Grandma Ma and her daughter, I wish the audience of the whole province, tigers and tigers, like tigers and tigers.
Anhui Economic Television reporter Ruan Mingkang zheng Zaijun reported
Editor: Shen Xian
Editor-in-charge: Zuo Kaixun, Wu Wenwen
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