The dragon travels all over the world to spread auspiciousness, and Kyushu has a grand plan for the same spring. On the evening of January 29, when the reporter walked into the Haizhixiao paper-cutting studio of Ma Haixiao, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Ningwu County, he saw that she was creating the paper-cut work of "Greeting the Dragon", welcoming the arrival of the Year of the Dragon with the skills on her fingertips. Facing the arrival of reporters, she picked up the "Ten Dragons and Five Blessings" that had just been created in the morning, and displayed it while introducing it.
The dragon is a beast, is the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, when the shape of the dragon meets the traditional paper-cutting skills, it can collide with new sparks, the essence of China's excellent traditional culture is vividly displayed.
With the approach of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in the lunar calendar, Ma Haixiao has created a vivid and ingenious auspicious dragon paper-cut works according to his own theme, through the main and secondary distinct, staggered cutting techniques, from the dragon head to the dragon tail, from the dragon body to the dragon claws, every detail is carefully created, and each work is lifelike, no matter from which angle it is viewed, it is unique, adding joy and warmth to the flavor of the year.
Ma Haixiao has been influenced by his grandmother's paper-cutting since he was a child, taught and enlightened, came into contact with paper-cutting, and learned while watching with a pair of scissors, from the simplest cutting of the word "Fu", the word "Xi", the word "夀", and then to the shape of the small animals of flowers and plants, and gradually formed an indissoluble bond with paper-cutting. With a pair of scissors, a piece of red paper, and a pair of skillful hands, she tempered her paper-cutting skills, formed her own characteristic style, cut out her own splendid future, and contributed to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
Talking about what blessings there are in 2024 I want to say to the county's fathers and villagers, Ma Haixiao told reporters, "I hope that through these paper-cut works, the joy of celebrating the festival will be conveyed, and I hope that everyone will have a good year of the dragon and prosperous fortune!" (Wu Guangyu, Zhang Yinghu, Liu Qiang)