A few days ago, the paper-cut exhibition of “40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up in Zhejiang Province and Forty Years of Paper-cutting in Zhejiang Province” was held in Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, and the collection of “40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up in Zhejiang Province and Forty Years of Paper-cutting in Zhejiang Province” was officially released.
Paper-cutting has been passed down among the people in China for thousands of years, and Zhejiang is also a big paper-cutting province. In the “Wulin Fanzhi” written in the Ming Dynasty, there was a record in the Five Dynasties that “wuyue practiced the king on the day of his lucky trip … hundreds of households outside the city, not Zhang Xuan brocade, all cut people with colored paper to replace them”, which reached a peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Thanks to the efforts of folk artists in the past dynasties, various distinctive paper-cutting arts have emerged in various parts of Zhejiang, such as the opera paper-cutting of Pujiang, Jinyun and Yongkang, the fine-line paper-cutting of Yueqing, the Taiping Yue of Pingyang and the dyed paper-cutting of Cangnan.
This paper-cut exhibition was initiated by the Paper-cut Branch of Zhejiang Folk Art Research Association and the Paper-cut Art Committee of Zhejiang Folk Writers Association. After more than two years of preparation, the works of 150 representative paper-cut artists and paper-cut authors (including the late artists) were collected and screened. Correspondent Chen Jing Reporter Xiong Yan