Material preparation: green paper, white paper, colored cardboard, scissors, glue and pencil.

Operating steps:

1. Draw a small circle with a diameter of about 1 cm on white paper with a pencil, and then cut the circle.

2. Take a small circle on the palm of your hand, put the pencil in the middle of the circle, wrap the pen, and then let go of your hand. You will see a shape with curled edges, which is a small flower.

3. Cut two big leaves from the green paper, fold the leaves in half, and then cut a slender strip as a stem.

4. Paste the leaves and stems on the blue cardboard as the background.

5. Stick the small flowers closely on both sides of the stem. In this way, a beautiful paper flower was made by hand.

There are three theories about the origin of origami: China origin, Japanese origin and Spanish origin. Although these statements are nothing more than speculation.

However, paper made of hemp and a little ramie fiber appeared in China as early as the Western Han Dynasty, while in Japan, it was not until 6 10 that Tan Zheng, a Korean monk, presented papermaking to Shoto Kutaishi, the then Regent. So many people think that origami originated in China more than 2000 years ago, and then spread to the whole world through Japan.

However, paper was unearthed in the site of the Western Han Dynasty in China, but there was no evidence that origami existed at that time. In Japan, origami began in heian period (about 794 to 1 185).

However, the earliest record of origami that can really be confirmed by literature is the haiku written by Ihara Xihe, a haiku poet in the Edo era, in 1680. This haiku refers to an origami work called "The Male Butterfly and the Female Butterfly". In the wedding ceremony, the "male butterfly and female butterfly" hung on the mouth of the hip flask.