Paper-cutting art is a kind of traditional Chinese folk decorative art with a long history. According to historical records, it originated in the Han and Tang dynasties. Since then, it has gradually developed, and there are paper-cutting works of different styles in folk all over the country. Li Ruishi's paper-cutting originated from family inheritance. His great-grandfather Li Chunshan, grandfather Li Xiangchen, and father Li Zhi were all teachers for three generations, and they all had certain attainments in folk arts and crafts, calligraphy, and painting. When it was passed to Li Ruishi, he pursued a unique form of expression and gave new connotations to paper-cutting art. He used historical figures, Chinese elites, and ancient talented women as themes, and accompanied them with poems and biographies. His works not only express paper-cutting art, but also highlight historical figures, making them organically integrated, artistically reproducing these classical figures and Chinese heroes, and forming his own style of paper-cutting poetic paper-cutting. There are three main aspects of Li Ruishi's paper-cutting inheritance: family inheritance, learning from others, and innovative development.