Peony paper cutting

Peony paper-cut tutorial is as follows:

1. Take a square piece of colored paper and fold it in half along the center line.

2. Draw the pattern of rooster and peony on the folded colored paper. The rooster is decorated with sawtooth patterns and crescent patterns, and the petals of peony flowers are also expressed with sawtooth patterns. When you draw a symmetrical pattern, you usually start from the middle and draw peony and rooster in turn.

3. Cut it out and spread it along the painted pattern. The pattern is two big cocks around a peony flower. This is the prosperity we want to share. It can bring you wealth and good luck.

This pattern is complicated, so friends who can't draw suggest printing it directly. Don't be afraid of trouble, the more complicated the pattern, the more beautiful the work will be.

Paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities.

Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public. Paper-cut art heritage has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list of China and the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

Paper-cutting has been in a period of great development in the Tang Dynasty. In Du Fu's poem Peng ADB, there is a saying that "warm soup is enough for me and paper is enough for my soul", and the custom of evoking souls by paper-cutting has been circulated among the people at that time. The paper-cut in the Tang Dynasty, which is now in the British Museum, shows that the paper-cut at that time had a high level of manual art and a complete picture composition, expressing an ideal realm between heaven and earth.

Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the carved patterns of flowers and trees have the characteristics of paper-cutting. For example, the pattern of "Duiyang" in Masakura Hospital in Japan is a typical artistic expression of hand cutting. In the Tang dynasty, there was also block printing made of paper-cutting. People carved it into wax paper with thick paper, and then printed the dye on the cloth to form beautiful patterns.

In addition, paper-cuts from the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, such as Twin Deer Pagoda, Pagoda and Deer Pagoda, were unearthed in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. , which belongs to the category of "merit paper", is mainly used to worship Buddha statues and decorate temples and Dojo. Its picture composition is complex and its content is specific, and there are ink paintings such as "Bodhisattva" and "Embracing Bodhisattva", which are works of paper-cutting and painting.