Cutting and pasting window flowers during the Chinese New Year is the most vivid embodiment of intangible cultural heritage in traditional festivals. Nowadays, paper-cutting is no longer only used for the needs of traditional festival culture, and paper-cut works are becoming an aesthetic art that is appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar in the modern cultural form. Liu Junhua, the representative inheritor of paper-cutting in Guanxian County, adheres to the integration and innovation of paper-cutting skills, gives life to each piece of red paper, and makes the paper-cutting art glow with new vitality and vitality in the new era.
Liu Junhua is the representative inheritor of paper-cutting in Guanxian County, and when she walks into her paper-cutting studio, she is teaching her daughter and students paper-cutting, and all kinds of paper-cutting and cultural creations can be seen everywhere in different forms. The scissors and red paper danced lightly in her hands, and as the confetti fell, the works were presented in front of everyone. "Because this year is the Year of the Dragon, I cut a window flower called the Year of the Dragon to send blessings, the bottom is two dragons, the two dragons play with the pearl of the paper-cut on a blessing word, I wish everyone a good luck in the Year of the Dragon, Happy New Year. Liu Junhua told reporters.
In addition to a series of paper-cut works in the Year of the Dragon, Liu Junhua also made a 10-meter-long scroll of 100 dragons with his students, using dragons in different forms and postures, as well as a large number of auspicious clouds and water patterns to show the feeling of dragons soaring through the clouds.
Speaking of paper-cutting, Liu Junhua has watched her grandmother use a pair of scissors to turn the red paper into exquisite patterns in a blink of an eye since she was a child, which has made her paper-cutting art dream deeply engraved in her heart. "When I was a child, I used to play with my grandmother with the leftovers of paper-cutting, which was also a very important fun that accompanied me growing up as a child, so I chose to major in art in college. In 2006, we officially integrated the art of paper-cutting into the teaching classroom of secondary vocational school, and our school set up a paper-cutting club to teach children to make paper-cutting little by little. Liu Junhua said.
After years of artistic accumulation, Liu Junhua is no longer limited to traditional paper-cutting, she has begun to innovate ideas, integrate traditional culture with popular elements, and enrich the artistic expression of paper-cutting. "Because the inheritors of paper-cutting should be upright and innovative, and combine the art of paper-cutting with practical things in life, they have created a group fan blessed by the Year of the Dragon, a small flower umbrella combining dragons and phoenixes, a small paving mat that absorbs water from dragons, and some dragon backpacks, crossbody bags, etc., so that people can not only understand that paper-cutting can be watched, but also have practical value, so that more people can understand the charm of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting. Liu Junhua said.
From the original paper-cutting used to set off the festive atmosphere, to now involving all areas of life, paper-cutting is being understood and loved by people with a new identity. "Now everyone has a new understanding of paper-cutting, and knows that paper-cutting can be worn on the body, can be made into a backpack, can be used as a backrest, and can be practical. As an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, I am very pleased to see these changes, and I hope that through our efforts, some of the literary and creative works of paper-cutting will go to thousands of households. Liu Junhua said.