Foshan is our famous historical and cultural city. It is the birthplace of China opera, Cantonese and prosperity. It is one of the famous cities of Kung Fu, food and ceramics, and it is also famous here. In yesterday's article, Chongqing introduced the living fossils of southern pottery ancient kilns-Southern Ancient Furnace and Sanshiwan Pottery Museum, and then continued to introduce them today. I found a kind of folk art worthy of everyone's attention-Foshan paper-cutting in Nanfeng ancient ancient houses.

folk paper-cutting in Foshan, Guangdong province, spread in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Because its paper-cutting production method adopts cutting, carving, chiseling, printing, writing, lining, etc., it can be divided into solid color paper-cutting, copper lining, copper writing materials, paper writing materials, gold flowers, silver writing materials, etc., and tin foil cutting and carving. In particular, the copper writing material is the most distinctive, which integrates painting, sculpture and writing techniques, making the works vigorous, simple and magnificent. More than a hundred years ago, Foshan paper-cut was also used as a manuscript for architecture and furniture carving, and was later used for interior decoration. It is pasted on lintels and iron beams, and is also used as a decoration for ceremonies, decorations, spending money and firecrackers.

In ancient times, paper-cutting was mainly used for holiday decoration, sacrificial decoration, embroidery and carving patterns, product trademarks and so on. With the development of society, Foshan Paper-cutting, based on tradition, is more representative in Chinese paper-cutting art because of its rigorous composition and strong decoration, which has got rid of the elegant and calm technological characteristics, embodied the theme of times life, and created a road of traditional artistic innovation.

There is a big difference between the current pattern design and the traditional copper chisel paper-cutting. "The original has many complicated elements, and there are many stories to tell. The scene is very grand. The current style is simple, pure, as pure as a fish, and it should feel more intuitive, and the expression method is more modern on the basis of the original. "The designer also transformed the mounting of some works to make them more in line with modern aesthetics." "The original mounting was messy, but now we have turned it into a pure black frame, which can maximize the color and exquisiteness of the work and make the vision more pure."