The paper-cut is one of the folks traditional decorative art which China popularizes the most. Probably because its so easy that, cost cheap, result stand and see, meet surface wide and welcome generally material; Because it suit rural produce leisure by woman, it acts as practibility can beautify life also most. All parts of the country can see paper-cuts , have even formed different local style schools . The paper-cut has not only displayed the masses' aesthetic hobby, and include and accumulating , It is one of the skills of the people that has the characteristic most in China too, its modelling characteristic especially deserves to be studied...

Because the views of each one conform with according to different, to have not as different classification even paper-cut. For example someone think carve come out call paper-cut, and should call and carve the paper with one; But someone thinks that traces to source, the ancient paper-cut is to cut and engrave one that is carved once, It cuts and have the another names of" entangling one" too why knife carve and call paper-cut? In fact, cut and engrave s of mark that carve have difference really, the skill and techniques of application have difficult easy differences too its, However, common people think knife it cuts to be and at works very coherent to call paper-cut, and pure work who knife carves can still be called the paper-cut , Have paper-cut, carve the differences of paper on paper-cut classify ...
There are a lot of techniques of expression of the paper-cut , sum up as monochromatic and colored two kinds especially here, The monochromatic paper-cut is divided again:
　　1. carve paper-cuts at souths of a hill , adopt red usually paper material of dark paper or other color cut and carve monochromatic paper-cut works that come out of. The characteristic of carving the paper- cut of south of a hill is the outline line which keeps the original manuscript , the blank part of cutting going beyond the outline line. Every lines of it joins each other , lead to send and move the whole body .
　　2. carve overcastly because paper-cut , whose name is the overcast to carve carve for outline line to original manuscript just the opposite at paper-cut at souths of a hill for the characteristics of paper-cut , Keep the part beyond the outline line. So overcast to carve the characteristics of paper-cut that the lineses of it uncertain and belong to interconnection, The whole of the works is cubic ...

Really work to have and sure a standard one one a piece of outstanding paper-cuts

　1、A one hundred sheets of flavor and paper sense Must possess one's own due style of art of paper-cuts and characteristic in a high quality paper-cut artistic work ...
　　2、The tinkling of pieces of jade is combed exquisitely carvedly A characteristic of language of art of paper-cut is that all images are moulding in exquisitely carved forms ...
　　3、Emphasize and decorates One a piece of outstanding paper-cuts emphasize flavor of decorating, it is flat for composition not to looked, symmetrical, The picture is balanced ...
Someone says , the folk art is a living fossil of the national culture, have its reason. Because of the difference of the region culture background, the some types design works of and folk paper-cut one are relatively stable, Enable stilling keeps the different levels of the ancient civilization of our country in today's folk paper-cut , We can have been from having a taste of the mystery, rise one forceful with the romantic charm of mature periods of national art initial periodses among them, The inspiration obtaining history from the labourer's creation. At to set off folk custom, in folk to grow folk paper-cuts staunchly, Have lasted today's era, has shown that its vitality is too vigorous to wane. At social the rural area a dab hands of the bottoms, all their silent movement in composing the national art history for generations those life.