Paper cutting crafts

Paper cutting crafts The handicrafts inherited in China are diverse and rich in forms. Finally, the most typical are paper cutting, wood carving, embroidery, ceramics and so on. And paper cutting is the most popular handicraft art that we have the most contact with in our life. The history of paper-cut art can be traced back to the invention of paper. There have been paper-cut works since about the sixth century A.D. In the Han and Tang Dynasties, folk women would cut colored silk and gold foil into ornaments and paste them on their forehead and temples for decoration. With the further development of paper-cut art, during the festival, people will also cut some beautiful and auspicious shapes and paste them on doors and windows as decoration. Paper cutting enriches people's spiritual life. At the same time, it is universal and practical, so it can be widely spread and inherited from generation to generation.