Intangible cultural heritage paper flip flower is a traditional Chinese paper handicraft, but also a children's favorite toy, it originated in the Qing Dynasty before the spread of more than 300 years of history, "on the canal" to take you to understand
Paper flipping flowers are ancient in the Chinese nation
One of the artistic treasures began as a decoration for rituals and festivals, and over time paper flips evolved into a unique art form that was loved by people
It uses paper as the material, through cutting, folding, turning, pulling and other skills to produce a variety of different forms of flowers, these flowers are large or small, single or complex, colorful, lifelike, breathtaking, at first the paper turned over the flower, called "turn the flower" or "turn the sky print", and later there were "change flowers", "eighteen changes", "eighteen turns" and other titles, in the early days of reform and opening up, officially named "art paper flowers"
Paper flipping includes the skills of penetrating the mouth, and all kinds of paper flipping craftsmen will change the gameplay according to their own unique recipes, and turn out "seventy-two changes", and ordinary players can also conjure up more than ten kinds of patterns at will
The production technique of paper flip flower is very unique, and it requires a variety of skills to be mastered, first of all, choose the right paper and color, and then carry out cutting, folding, pulling and other skills to make a variety of different forms of flowers
The paper flip is made of a cardboard shell
Bamboo skewers and colored special paper are spliced
Make a complete paper flip
It is necessary before and after
Almost 60 days
Paper turned paper, a thin layer
It seems that the bomb can be broken
In fact, it is very resilient
The paper that makes paper flip is good tensile power
Highly absorbent copy paper
Only paper is made and colored
It would take four or five days
Small paper flip flowers
Seventy or eighty sheets of paper will be used
For the big ones, use more than 100 sheets of paper
Paste these 100 or so pieces of paper
A little bit sticks up
Stick it and let it dry before applying the color
The previous color should be dried once
Then it is chiseled
More than 10 processes such as cover dyeing
The end result is:
Honeycomb-shaped adhesive paper
Summer is more suitable for drying
Generally in the summer concentrate stickers
Finished products are made in winter
Flip horizontally, vertically, up, down... Colorful paper flowers, in the hands of Wang Jianying, the inheritor of paper turning skills, conjure up a variety of patterns, this seemingly simple and complex folk toy embodies the aesthetics and creativity of the intangible cultural heritage inheritors, and also deeply attracts the attention of the children on the spot
Wang Jianying continues to innovate, and on the basis of paper turning skills, he has created a variety of works that represent cultural landmarks, such as Tongzhou Burning Lighthouse, Temple of Heaven, and New Year's Hall
In order to promote and publicize the paper flip making skills more favorably, Wang Jianying and his team followed the pace of the times, closely combined the intangible cultural heritage items with the special characteristics of the current era, formed a curriculum suitable for primary and secondary schools, popularized and disseminated, and assisted in the development of intangible cultural heritage into the campus
Today's guest
Director of the Centennial World Old Telephone Museum in Beijing
Che Zhihong (left)
The inheritor of paper turning skills
Wang Jianying (right)
Listen to "On the Canal"