Every Spring Festival, Ansai women have to hinge and cut paper and paste window flowers to decorate the living environment and increase festive colors. This year, they have a new task, 100 women jointly created a huge paper-cut scroll "Hundred Tigers" with a length of 13 meters and a width of two meters, as a way to express their expectations and blessings for the Year of the Tiger.
In the studio of Yu Zeling, a folk paper-cutting artist in Anse, the reporter saw that Yu Zeling and several of her sisters were gathered around a square table, humming a small song in their mouths, and the scissors in their hands flew up and down, and in a short while, a pair of "tigers" with different forms appeared in front of the reporter's eyes.
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Ansai District Folk Paper-Cutting Artist Yu Zeling:
The most satisfying thing is the Ansai waist drum tiger, because the Anse waist drum is our national intangible cultural heritage protection project, you see how dexterous this tiger jumps up and dances.
Yu Zeling cut more than a dozen pairs of large and small tigers, and through careful selection, finally decided to include "Anse Waist Drum Tiger" in the long volume of "Hundred Tiger Maps".
It is understood that the paper-cut long scroll "Hundred Tiger Map" was initiated by the Anse Handicraft Association, in just ten days, under the skillful cutting of 100 women, 100 pairs of "tigers" with different shapes finally gathered in the 13 meters long and two meters wide "Hundred Tiger Map" paper-cut giant long scroll.
Chen Lianlian, President of ansai Women's Handicraft Association:
Hope can bring the people of the whole country New Year blessings, in the new year, I wish the people of the whole country the year of the tiger to good luck!
Yan'an Rong Media Center reporter Liu Zhenzhen Ansai Rong Media Liu Ying Zhang Zhilin