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How does Xiao Ai cut paper?

Xiaoai paper-cutting method is as follows:

Material preparation: scissors, cardboard.

1. Take a square piece of colored paper and fold it diagonally into a triangle.

2. Divide the base of the triangle into three parts with an angle of 180 degrees, and the angle of each part is 60 degrees.

3. Fold the right corner along the right dotted line and align it with the left dotted line.

4. Similarly, the left corner is folded along the left dotted line and aligned with the right dotted line.

5. Fold the colored paper in the above picture vertically along the center line again, as shown in the figure, which is the hexagonal paper-cutting method.

6. Draw the first love paper-cut pattern on the folded colored paper, as shown in the figure. Draw only half a heart.

7, cut down along the pattern, only need two scissors to complete.

8. After the red paper is unfolded, the six hearts are closely connected.

The origin of paper-cutting:

Paper-cutting, also called paper engraving, is one of the oldest folk arts of Han nationality in China. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.

China folk paper-cut handicraft art has its own formation and development process. The invention of Chinese paper-cutting was in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (3rd century BC). At that time, people used very thin materials to make handicrafts by hollowing out and carving, but it was popular long before paper appeared, that is, carving, carving, picking, carving and cutting techniques were used on gold foil, leather and silk.

Even cutting and carving patterns on leaves. According to Records of the Historian Jiantong Di Feng, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, a king claimed the title of king, and cut a plane tree leaf into a "reed" and gave it to his younger brother, who was named Hou in the Tang Dynasty. During the Warring States period, leather carvings were useful, and the silver foil carvings (one of the cultural relics unearthed from No.1 Chu Tomb in Wangshan, Jiangling, Hubei Province) were all dismantled together with paper-cutting. Their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.

China's earliest paper-cut works were discovered in 1967, when China archaeologists found two paper-cuts with flowers in the northern dynasties tombs in Astana near Gaochang site in Turpan basin, Xinjiang. They use hemp paper, all of which are folded sacrificial paper-cuts. Their discovery provides physical evidence for the formation of Chinese paper-cutting.