Paper-cutting art embellishes people's ordinary lives in such a magnificent way. With a variety of patterns, it expresses people's pursuit and yearning for truth, goodness and beauty, and expresses people's extremely rich emotional world and spiritual life through artistic means. Xiushui folk paper-cutting art belongs to the art of transmission, and paper-cutting is closely combined with embroidery. The older generation passed on the folk cultural concepts, traditional patterns of paper-cutting art and its own innovative ideas to the next generation without reservation through words and deeds. Its inheritors are mainly women. Xiushui women are ingenious, hardworking and intelligent. In their hands, paper-cutting art is splendid and interesting. This kind of art has easy-to-obtain materials, low cost, simple tools, and skills inherited from ancestors and self-created. The expression effect is immediate, the decorativeness is strong, and the scope of application is wide, which is deeply loved by the masses. Folk paper-cutting has a long history in Xiushui. So, the question is, why can paper-cutting art take root in Xiushui and become a folk art appreciated by both the refined and the popular? Xiushui is a lantern town with many varieties, including palace lanterns, boat lanterns, car-powered lanterns, ancient lanterns, bowl lanterns, card lanterns, fish lanterns, horse-racing lanterns, etc. Each lantern has an allusion, and each allusion has a separate pattern. The inner and outer layers are decorated with paper-cut flowers. When the audience sees the paper-cut patterns on the lanterns, they know the content of the lanterns. Paper-cutting craftsmanship occupies a very important position in lantern activities. In marriage, when the two parties are attracted to each other, the woman will take the initiative to show her own cutting and embroidery masterpieces, show her talents, and embroider a handkerchief with the words "a hundred years of happiness" or a shoe pad with the words "living together forever" to the man as a token of love. It means that she can do coarse and fine things, such as holding the plow and stopping the harrow, and fine things such as paper cutting and embroidery. Birthdays are important folk customs in Xiushui, including birthdays, three days, full moons, one year old, and ten years old. After thirty, there will be a small celebration every five years and a big celebration every ten years. The tiger-faced shoes and hats, bibs, aprons, skirts, etc. for newborns, the robes, hats, boots, and screens for the birthday star, etc., are all decorated with paper-cuts and embroidery. These paper-cut embroidery patterns can add to the festive atmosphere of the birthday hall. Folk paper-cutting has a long history in Xiushui. With the development of production and the improvement of the quality of life, the art of paper-cutting will continue to be enriched to meet people's yearning for a better future and the pursuit of spiritual life.