The method of cutting small hearts is as follows:

Material preparation: scissors, cardboard.

1. Take a square piece of colored paper and fold it diagonally into a triangle.

2. Divide the 180-degree angle of the base of the triangle into three equal parts, each with an angle of 60 degrees.

3. Fold the right corner along the right dotted line to the left dotted line.

4. In the same way, the left corner is also folded along the left dotted line and aligned with the right dotted line.

5. Fold the colored paper in the picture above vertically in half along the center line, as shown in the picture. This is the hexagonal paper-cutting method.

6. Draw the first love paper-cut pattern on the folded colored paper, as shown in the picture. Just draw half a heart shape.

7. Cut along the pattern, only two scissors are needed to complete.

8. After unfolding the red paper, six red hearts are closely connected.

The origin of paper-cutting:

Paper-cutting, also called paper engraving, is one of the oldest folk arts of the Han Chinese. Paper-cutting is a hollow art that visually gives people a A feeling of airiness and artistic enjoyment. The carrier can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.

China's folk paper-cut handicraft art has its own formation and development process. The invention of Chinese paper-cut was in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods BC (3rd century BC). At that time, people used thin sheets of material to carve through hollows. The techniques used to make handicrafts have been popular before the advent of paper, that is, using the techniques of carving, engraving, picking, engraving, and shearing on gold foil, leather, and silk.

Even cut and carve patterns on the leaves. "Historical Records" records that in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng cut sycamore leaves into "Gui" as a gift to his younger brother, and granted Ji Yu the title of Marquis in the Tang Dynasty. During the Warring States Period, leather carvings were used (one of the cultural relics unearthed from Chu Tomb No. 1 in Jianglingwang Mountain, Hubei Province), and silver foil carvings were hollowed out and removed together with paper-cutting. Their appearance laid a certain foundation for the formation of folk paper-cutting.

The earliest discovery of paper-cut works in China was in 1967 when Chinese archaeologists discovered two group-flower paper-cuts in the Astana Ancient Northern Dynasty tombs near the Gaochang site in Turpan Basin, Xinjiang. They used the Linen paper is folded sacrificial paper-cutting. Their discovery provides physical evidence for the formation of paper-cutting in China.