Beilonggang Paper Cutting

Jiangsu
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Beilonggang Paper-cutting Beilonggang Paper-cutting is a traditional art project in the second batch of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage. Paper-cutting has a history of more than hundreds of years in Yandu. In their spare time, people use paper as the material to create various images through cutting, carving, tearing and other techniques for decoration of living environment and embellishment of festivals and celebrations. Beilonggang paper-cutting is influenced by Yangzhou paper-cutting and has the characteristics of paper-cutting in the central part of the south, namely: small and exquisite, soft and neat. Paper-cutting has two uses. One is to pray for good luck and blessings during festive festivals, which is the most common in normal times. For example, during the New Year and other festivals, commonly used paper-cuttings include "Year after year of abundance" (patterns are lotus and fish), "Congratulations on your wealth", etc. The second is to make embroidery manuscripts, which are more common among the people. Some rural women put the shoe patterns and manuscripts prepared in advance on the fabric to make shoes, embroidery, etc. Generally, there are more themes of flowers and birds and the twelve zodiac signs. The most common ones are: "Fu Shou Jin Chang" and "Shuang Feng Chao Yang".

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