Qiao Yumei, female, Han Ethnicity. Born in 1951, a native of Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. Influenced by his mother Lu Pigui (the first generation of intangible cultural heritage inheritors of folk culture, who won many awards in provinces and cities in the 1980s), he has loved paper-cutting since childhood, and has inherited this folk art, and the paper-cutting works are vivid and have a simple beauty. He is good at cutting window flowers with folk heritage. He is the inheritor of the second generation of paper-cutting art at the county level in Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province. He is currently the vice president of the Meilan Flower Handicraft Association of Tongwan Road Community in Jingbian County. Director of Shaanxi Sanqin Association. In recent years, paper-cut works have won awards in foreign and domestic work competitions. The paper-cut works have won the gold medal of the second "China Cup" folk culture and art works invitation exhibition, the second prize of the China Paper-cutting Tour Station (Thailand Station) exhibition, and the on-site paper-cutting won the Excellence Award) In 2018 and 2019, it won the gold medal twice in Beijing. He is also a member of the Beijing Central Cutter Association, and was appointed deputy secretary-general by the Beijing Contemporary Hanmo Culture and Art Institute in May 2019.
Shaanxi paper-cutting is one of the long-established Han folk art forms. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which visually gives people a feeling of airiness and artistic enjoyment. Its carrier can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather, leather and other flakes of material. From south to north in Shaanxi, especially on the Loess Plateau, eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, red, green and green paper cuts can be seen everywhere. That ancient shape, rough style, interesting meaning, diverse forms, exquisite skills, in Shaanxi, in the country's folk art occupies a very important position.
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