▲The walls of the Guangling County Paper-cutting Art Museum in Datong, Shanxi Are plastered with brightly colored and exquisitely made paper-cut works.
Ink-inspired Meilan bamboo chrysanthemums, festive and peaceful Zodiac New Year paintings, and exquisite characters of the times... In the Guangling County Paper-cutting Art Museum in Datong, Shanxi, more than 16,000 pieces of paper-cutting art are displayed, which makes people overwhelmed. Guangling paper-cutting culture has a deep heritage, mainly knife carving, cut as a supplement, yin carving and yang combination, delicate knife technique, dark and light colors, cold and warm color contrast, distinct artistic style, vivid imagination, strong expressiveness, vivid conveyance, exquisite material and dyeing, fine packaging and production, unique in the world paper-cutting art gallery. Guangling paper-cutting has a history of thousands of years, known as "a must-have Chinese folk art", can be called the first paper-cutting in China, in 2009 was selected into the Representative List of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Today's Guangling paper-cutting, inheriting the tradition at the same time, but also innovating, the ancient folk art rejuvenated.
Shanxi Daily client shooter Liu Naizhen
▲ A major feature of Guangling paper-cutting is that it is free to use color, and you can adjust what color and dye what color you want. The color can be adjusted out of 50 to 60 kinds, and the color of a work can be up to 30 kinds of point dyeing, so the color paper cutting can achieve the dual effect of painting and paper cutting.
▲Although Guangling paper-cutting is a paper-cutting, the production method is mainly knife carving, supplemented by scissors.
▲ Guangling paper-cutting is divided into categories and varieties in terms of performance themes and performance content, mainly including 15 categories and more than 2,000 varieties, such as zodiac signs, animals, plants, flowers, birds, insects and fish updates, costume drama character faces, folk myths and legends, quyi dances, modern heroic model characters, natural scenery, tourist landscapes, scenic spots, and labor life scenes.
▲Taste Guangling paper-cutting, appreciate not only paper-cutting, but also feel the successful practice of cultural stage setting up and economic singing.
▲ The proud bloom of plum blossoms, the solitude and purity of bamboo, the elegant fragrance of orchids, the vividness of animals, the shape and spirit of characters, the natural flow of landscapes, the full portrayal of natural scenery, the organic coherence of historical monuments, etc., supplemented by exquisite coloring and exquisite mounting, have reached a high artistic realm.