The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, at this time, people usually cut window flowers and write Spring Festival couplets to add joy to the family and welcome the Spring Festival. At this time, all parts of Shanghai are also full of Spring Festival activities, and the children's winter vacation life is also very rich. Qingcun Town, Fengxian District, has launched a series of volunteer service activities during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival, among which the paper-cutting intangible cultural heritage class is quite popular with children and parents.
After visiting the "Auspicious Dragon Welcoming Spring" work made by Qian Xiaohong, the inheritor of Fengxian folk paper art of Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage, children and parents can't wait to prepare to make paper-cuts for the Year of the Dragon. "Hold this knife like a pencil, and then use this blade, slowly down, and follow this line. Under the guidance of Qian Xiaohong, the children began to make their desks.
According to Qian Xiaohong, every year, the Qingcun Town Volunteer Service Center will carry out a series of intangible cultural heritage classes in combination with the theme of the New Year's zodiac, and provide knowledge popularization and skill guidance for interested children according to the meaning and origin of the zodiac. Now the intangible cultural heritage class has just passed. "These zodiac patterns are specially designed by me, because this year is the Year of the Dragon, so the children who come are all dragons, I want them to experience the excellent traditional culture, make their own zodiac paper-cut window flowers, as a New Year's gift to themselves, at the same time, paper-cut window flowers are also a unique folk culture during the Spring Festival, prosperous, and the atmosphere is also very festive. Qian Xiaohong said.
Cutting a window flower with a special meaning in the natal year makes these dragon babies feel both novel and fun. A student cut out a "Little Lucky Dragon", she said: "New Year's wishes are pinned on the New Year paper-cutting, hoping for peace, happiness and good luck in the New Year...... Very interesting. I happen to belong to the dragon, this pattern is a blessing word There is also a dragon in it, which is very cute and the meaning is also very special. ”
At the scene, in addition to the children, the parents were also very serious, and for them, it was particularly meaningful to be able to participate in such a parent-child class on the eve of the Spring Festival. One parent said: "We in Fengxian have a lot of intangible cultural heritage, so I want my children to experience our intangible cultural heritage, so that they can understand the local culture of Fengxian and love the local culture of Fengxian even more through hands-on paper-cutting." Another parent and child made a work together, she sighed: "I think this is a good experience, our children have not taken such an intangible cultural heritage course before, and it is almost the Spring Festival, the atmosphere is very strong, this paper-cut can be used as a window sticker." ”
Under the leadership of the teacher, a pair of eyes concentrated, a pair of small hands cut like flying, after a while, the lifelike little Fulong jumped on the paper, and the Spring Festival breath of Ruiqi Yingmen has arrived.
It is understood that during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival, the Qingcun Town Volunteer Service Center will continue to launch volunteer service organizations in the town to carry out various forms of volunteer service activities that are popular with the masses, enrich spiritual and cultural life, cultivate a new style and new look of the times, and enhance the festive atmosphere of celebration, health and spirit.