The perfect rich man in the city

Chapter 1056

Window grilles are paper cuts affixed to window paper or window glass, and are one of the ancient traditional folk arts.

It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad.

The ancient farming society fundamentally determines the content and form of folk paper-cutting. It is naive, simple, rough and vigorous, simple and flexible, natural and interesting, fully demonstrating its own special artistic charm.

Window decals are paper cuts affixed to window paper or window glass. In the past, people in both the south and the north would put up window grilles during the Spring Festival.

In the South, it is only posted when you are getting married, and is generally not posted during the Spring Festival. In the north, window grilles are still popular. In a certain place in northern Hebei, if a house does not have window grilles during the Spring Festival, people will speculate whether something happened to the family.

Window grilles are one of the varieties of paper-cutting.

To enhance the festive atmosphere, many rural areas post paper-cuts on their windows before the Spring Festival. The style of window grilles is generally relatively free. Except for the"corner flowers" affixed to the four corners and the folded"round flowers", there are no restrictions on the outer outline.

Window grilles are rich in content and have a wide range of themes.

Since most of the buyers of window grilles are farmers, window grilles contain considerable content that expresses farmers’ lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, feeding pigs, raising chickens, etc.

With its unique summary and exaggeration techniques, window grilles vividly express auspicious symbols and good wishes, decorating the festival with prosperity and joy.

Window grilles have a history of thousands of years, and gradually spread and took shape in the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the handicraft art of paper-cutting matured and reached its heyday. The traditional Chinese paper-cut handicraft art is used in a wider range of applications. The floral decorations on Chinese folk lanterns, the patterns on fans, and embroidery patterns, etc., are all made from paper-cut decoration.

What's more, Chinese people often use paper-cutting as decorations to decorate their homes and beautify their home environment. For example, door stacks, window flowers, cabinet flowers, wedding flowers, ceiling flowers, etc. are all paper-cutting used to decorate doors, windows, and rooms.

In addition to the paper-tying craftsmen who appeared after the Southern Song Dynasty, the most basic team of Chinese folk paper-cut craftsmen are still rural women. Nvhong is an important symbol of traditional Chinese female perfection. As the compulsory skill of nvhong, paper-cutting has become a handicraft that girls must learn from an early age.

They learned from their elders or sisters, and through cutting, re-cutting, drawing and cutting, they painted the natural scenery that they were familiar with and loved, such as fish, insects, birds and beasts, flowers, plants, trees, pavilions, bridges and wind. In the end, they reached the state of their own free will. Cut out new patterns.

Window grilles are the most widely distributed, largest and most popular variety among Chinese folk paper-cuts. It is divided into"North and South styles". The south is beautiful in"exquisiteness", which is characterized by exquisiteness and clarity; the north is beautiful in simplicity and vividness, which is characterized by innocence and simplicity. Other paper-cut varieties are developed on the basis of window grilles.

Rural areas all over the north and south must put up window grilles during the Spring Festival to decorate the environment and enhance the atmosphere, and to express the wish to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, and to receive good fortune and good fortune. Regardless of the subject matter, expression techniques, and cutting and carving techniques, window grilles are the most representative of the cutting and carving arts.

Modern and modern window grilles have gradually formed an independent art category, but because they originally originated from the cutouts of Chinese folk festivals or folk activities, and were mostly affixed to the white paper of rural windows, they are called"window grilles". For everyone, window grilles are a wonderful title that can arouse a lot of lingering and emotions. On the first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as the Spring Festival, on this day, decorating the home environment with window grilles has become an important part of the Chinese Spring Festival celebrations.

The cutting and carving forms of window grilles include: First, single-color cutting, which is mostly used for red paper cutting and has a wide range of applications. The second is colored paper-cutting, which is generally used for large windows in palaces and shops, or windows in halls and facades. The third is relief paper-cutting, which is popular in Gansu and Qinghai areas. It combines cutting and paper-folding techniques and has a unique style. The fourth is colored window grilles, which can be divided into dyeing and lining. Dyeing window grilles are most famous from Fengning and Yu County in Hebei Province. They are carved first and then dyed; among them, the most famous ones are those produced in Foshan. The main pattern is cut out of gold foil paper and tin foil paper, backed by various colored papers, making it magnificent, magnificent and elegant. This practice is called"copper lining"

, but as time goes by, the art of paper-cutting has become less and less.

Slowly, it seems to be lost.

Because few people learn this

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"Aunt Wang, did you buy all of these?"Nowadays, most of them are mechanized.

You set the window grilles and mass-produce them directly.

However, the flavor and charm are missing.

"No, I cut it myself. I learned this in my old days." Aunt Wang is from the north.

Over there, it is popular to put up window grilles when getting married and during holidays.

Even now, this habit has not changed..Every year, he would cut some window grilles and stick them at home.

This time he cut more.

Because both Xiao Qingxu and Zhong Jing were very kind to him.