Central Broadcasting Network Korla News on February 11 (reporter Li Haoxuan correspondent Mu Xuanxuan) "When cutting, the hand is like this, you must use ingenuity, otherwise there will be a rough edge when cutting out, which is not good-looking." "At the paper-cutting training class held by the Korla City Cultural Center in Xinjiang, an amiable female teacher was explaining the essentials of paper-cutting while personally demonstrating, appearing busy but not chaotic, strict but not ashamed, she is the representative inheritor of paper-cutting in the Bazhou intangible cultural heritage project - Yang Aifeng.
Yang Aifeng is teaching paper-cutting to students. Issued by the Central Broadcasting Network
Love: A pair of skillful hands to cut the spring breeze
In the early summer of 1958, Yang Aifeng was born in rural Henan, and under the influence and influence of the older generation, he learned folk paper-cutting from his mother from an early age. At that time, Yang Aifeng did not understand what paper-cutting and art had to do with it, and whenever he went to the agricultural leisure season, he accompanied his mother to weave, embroider, and cut paper at home, watching his mother paste the cut flowers on the cloth, embroidering them into belly pockets, hats, and curtains, thinking that it was both beautiful and fun.
After becoming an adult, Yang Aifeng worked in the cement factory in Shanghu Town, although she was tired, but in her spare time, she would still ask the old artists who were good at paper-cutting for experience, and the paper-cutting skills were not only not wasted, but the techniques became more and more skilled. She is not only good at paper-cutting, but also good at embroidery, yarn weaving, cloth sticking, and beading skills.
Every year before the Spring Festival, he will cut some window flowers to give to colleagues, friends and neighbors. Yang Aifeng often said, "Before the Spring Festival, I give you paper-cut works and window flowers, which is a festive celebration, hoping to bring you the blessings of the festival." ”
Although he is already very famous in Korla, Yang Aifeng has not stopped learning. In 2014, Yang Aifeng participated in the embroidery learning training class organized by the Autonomous Regional Women's Federation, which opened her eyes, understood that the small paper-cutting contained a big qiankun, and strengthened her determination to continuously polish the paper-cutting technique.
In 2017, Yang Aifeng signed up for the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education's China Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Group Research and Training Program, participated in the intangible cultural heritage inheritance group training class hosted by Xinjiang University, and improved her skills and better understanding of the importance of intangible cultural heritage inheritance, and was awarded the honorary title of "Specially Invited Non-Genetic Inheritor" by Shanghai University. In September 2019, Yang Aifeng was named the representative inheritor of the second batch of paper-cutting intangible cultural heritage projects at the autonomous prefecture level.
In recent years, Yang Aifeng has won many honors and awards in various paper-cutting, lantern, embroidery, and handicraft competitions. In February 2015, the paper-cut work "Socialist Core Values" won the second prize in the "Red Hot And Red New Year - New Year Paper-cutting Works Exhibition"; in June 2016, it won the second prize in the Fourth Women's Skillful Hand Display Competition organized by the Bazhou Women's Federation; in February 2017, it won the first prize in the adult group in the "Spend the Lantern Festival together" handmade DIY lantern competition organized by the Municipal Cultural Center...
Yang Aifeng participated in the event with her mother and daughter. Issued by the Central Broadcasting Network
Inheritance: A garden of peach and plum compete for fragrance
A single branch is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in the spring and fill the garden. While unremittingly engaging in paper-cutting art, Yang Aifeng has also been committed to the promotion and inheritance of paper-cutting culture.
Since 2012, Yang Aifeng's figure has been active in various paper-cutting public welfare activities and training paper-cutting students. Because she is sincere and enthusiastic, many units and communities often invite him to participate in activities, and he will gladly agree whenever he has time. Every year on the eve of the Founding Day and the Police Day, Yang Aifeng will go into the military camp and police camp to carry out paper-cutting activities, which is deeply loved and praised by the officers and men of the armed police and the people's police. She also went to special education schools and child welfare homes to teach disabled children to learn paper-cutting, hoping that they would have a good skill in entering the society.
"Paper-cutting is a cause that I love, and I feel that it is a particularly happy thing to do as a hobby." When it comes to paper-cutting, Yang Aifeng can't hide her inner joy.
In 2015, Yang Aifeng was hired by the Korla City Cultural Center as a Han culture traditional handicraft teacher, many people who love paper-cutting came to visit, Yang Aifeng is patiently taught, so far a total of 20 sessions of paper-cutting students have been trained, seeing the students progress bit by bit, Yang Aifeng's heart is sweet. In recent years, she has been successively awarded the honorary titles of "Model of Love and Dedication", "Excellent Teacher" and "Dedication Star", and has become a kind and enthusiastic "Aunt Yang" in the hearts of young students.
Yang Aifeng's daughter He Yinping, who has been infiltrating aesthetic education since she was a child, has also shown a strong interest in paper-cutting. In recent years, while He Yinping has inherited her mother's various paper-cutting skills, she herself has also taught paper-cutting to people of all ethnic groups free of charge at the Korla Folk Culture Center. She also cooperated with her mother to cut 25 exquisite paper-cut works with the theme of "Manas Historical Heroes" for Xinjiang Normal University, and in 2018, she also created 100 small bird cuts with different shapes for Shanghai University.
"I am a cultural worker myself, and while doing my job well, it is a very meaningful thing to take everyone to learn paper-cutting together, pass on this ancient art, and carry it forward and innovate in our generation." He Yinping said proudly.
Gratitude: A cut of tenderness to transform the bitao
In the prosperous world and bathing in the grace of the Party, in what way will you remember the gratitude of the Party and bless the great motherland? Some people write poems lyrically, some people use songs to lyrically, some people borrow calligraphy lyrics, Yang Aifeng's way is unique.
Over the years, Yang Aifeng has been full of enthusiasm and has integrated her gratitude to the Communist Party of China and blessings for the great motherland into a series of vivid and exquisite paper-cut works. In order to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, she created a large-scale paper-cut work of "The Chinese Dream of Peace and Prosperity"; in order to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Party, she created "The Sons and Daughters of All Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang Celebrate the Birthday of the Party" and a series of paper-cut works with the theme of reflecting the core values of socialism; on the occasion of the 19th National Congress, Yang Aifeng and her daughter He Yinping created the paper-cut works of "Welcoming the Nineteenth National Congress", and jointly completed the paper-cutting work of "100 Butterflies", the 100-meter-long scroll paper-cutting of "Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Party", and the paper-cutting of "The Strategy for Governing Xinjiang with two crosses"...
The pride of gratitude to the great motherland is hot and strong, and the tenderness of loving the hometown of Licheng is permanent and long.
In September 2012, the air was filled with the ripe fragrance of fragrant pears, Yang Aifeng went deep into the countryside into the pear garden to collect wind, she carefully and meticulously observed the pear picking, basketing, transportation, the scene of the people of all ethnic groups helping each other to pick fragrant pears made her deeply moved, and after returning, she created a large-scale paper-cut "We Are Family", vividly reproducing the beautiful scene of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang watching out for each other and brotherly kissing each other.
More than 100 large-scale paper-cut works created by Yang Aifeng have been collected by the Bazhou Archives Bureau, the Bazhou Art Museum, the Bazhou Patriotic Education Base, the Korla Folk Culture Museum, and the Korla Cultural Center. In addition, Yang Aifeng's "Jubilant Thirteen Winters" was collected by the Winter Games of the Autonomous Region.
Yang Aifeng created a 13-meter Winter Olympics-themed paper-cut long scroll. Issued by the Central Broadcasting Network
"This year is the year of the Winter Olympics that belongs to the people of Chinese, everyone is expressing national pride and self-confidence through their own way, and I am also deeply moved and inspired, and I want to express this joy in my own way." Yang Aifeng said with deep feeling.
After a month of hard work, the 13-meter Winter Olympic scroll came out, which attracted widespread attention and praise from the society. In fact, this is not the first time That Yang Aifeng has been associated with the Olympic Games, as early as the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, for this world-renowned event, Yang Aifeng spent nearly 2 years embroidering a large work of "Olympic Athletes in China", as well as 2008 "peace doves" and pendants, presenting the simple patriotic feelings of a paper-cutting artist.
Paper-cutting has changed Yang Aifeng's life, making her life as brilliant and colorful as the art of paper-cutting. Like a diligent gardener, she decorates a beautiful life with scissors in her hand, and warms, influences, and moves more people with exquisite paper-cut works, so that this ancient art will bloom in the new era.