Paper cuts are a decorative folkart much loved by the Chinesepeople.They are pictures cutby knife or scissors or torn by hand.The various designs are often full ofwit and humor.Though nobody knows exactlywhen the art ...Paper cuts are a decorative folkart much loved by the Chinesepeople.They are pictures cutby knife or scissors or torn by hand.The various designs are often full ofwit and humor.Though nobody knows exactlywhen the art started,documents andsurveys prove it has quite a longhistory.The earliest paper cuts,dat-ing back to the Northern and South-ern Dynasties(420-589),were dis-covered in an an-cient tomb in Xin-jiang Uygur Auton-omous Region.Bythe Song Dynasty(960-1279)the artof paper cutting hadreached a high lev-el and specializedcraftspeople ap-peared.展开更多
文摘Paper cuts are a decorative folkart much loved by the Chinesepeople.They are pictures cutby knife or scissors or torn by hand.The various designs are often full ofwit and humor.Though nobody knows exactlywhen the art started,documents andsurveys prove it has quite a longhistory.The earliest paper cuts,dat-ing back to the Northern and South-ern Dynasties(420-589),were dis-covered in an an-cient tomb in Xin-jiang Uygur Auton-omous Region.Bythe Song Dynasty(960-1279)the artof paper cutting hadreached a high lev-el and specializedcraftspeople ap-peared.