Southern Anhui Paper-cutting

Anhui
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At the foot of the scenic Jingting Mountain in Xuancheng, Anhui, the Southern Anhui Paper-cutting Art Museum welcomes Chinese and foreign tourists with its graceful and elegant demeanor. As the only carrier of the Southern Anhui paper-cutting art in Xuancheng, it has been valued by leaders at all levels. Southern Anhui paper-cutting art is a unique art in Jiangnan and is widely loved by the people of Southern Anhui. It is an exquisite handicraft that combines ornamental, decorative and widely used features, and has great collection and practical value. It is also a carrier for the Chinese to display their own cultural qualities. The world must also see Chinese folk paper-cutting to understand the Chinese national culture; as a national cultural language, it is often used by people as a folk form of education and education. The basic characteristics of Southern Anhui paper-cutting art are exquisite, detailed, delicate and quiet. Southern Anhui is a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and birds and flowers are fragrant. Accompanied by flowers and plants of the four seasons, and living with people day and night, the gentleness of water and the lingering tenderness of flowers affect people's aesthetic complex; the active commodity economy in the south, "the more delicate the handicraft, the better the price it can sell for", and the market commodity consciousness affects people's aesthetic patterns; there are also rich historical and cultural relics in southern Anhui, and the rich heritage of humanities, which have formed the individual characteristics of southern Anhui paper-cutting in terms of subject matter, techniques, and formal habits. The Southern Anhui Paper-Cutting Art Museum exhibits hundreds of exquisite Southern Anhui paper-cutting works, which not only inherit the Southern Anhui Chen School paper-cutting art style, but also keep pace with the times and innovate. It has fine selection of materials, ingenious conception, and delicate and diverse expression techniques. Its representative work "The Twelve Beauties of Jinling" inherits the traditional Chen School paper-cutting techniques, with vivid characters, both form and spirit, and meticulous and delicate knifework; "Legend of the Crocodile" is based on the Southern Anhui Xuancheng Yangtze Alligator Breeding Center, creating a precedent for the Chen School's technique of cutting crocodiles; "Twin Pagodas" allows the Song Dynasty sister towers to show their style in Southern Anhui paper-cutting works; the work "Li Bai" depicts the poetic feelings of Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, with exquisite conception and superb craftsmanship; the paper-cutting masterpiece "Returning to My Mother's Home" won the Excellence Award at the 3rd China Farmers' Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition for its novel theme of a young couple in the new countryside driving a car back to their mother's home with their children.

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