The fire trees and silver flowers never sleep, and the good night will celebrate the festival. Another year's Lantern Festival is approaching, on February 23, in Tangyin County, Chengguan Town, Duanzhuang Village Art Paper-cutting Studio is very lively, full of auspicious blessings of the paper-cut intangible heritage work "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" by paper-cutting lovers and children unanimously welcomed, everyone with intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting to celebrate the upcoming Lantern Festival, for this thousand-year-old city to add more blessings.
The knife should be held like a pencil, and then the blade should be carved slowly according to the line. There was laughter and laughter in the paper-cutting studio, and the auspicious paper-cutting of the Year of the Dragon in the hands of the children, under the patient and meticulous teaching of Yuan Shuiming, slowly appeared outline, vividly, causing bursts of exclamation.
A pile of red paper, a pair of scissors, through the intangible cultural heritage inheritor Yuan Shuiming's skillful hands carefully created, implying family harmony, auspicious blessings of "dragon and phoenix auspicious", "flowers and birds are rich", "Shoubi Nanshan", "happy eyebrows" and other works are presented in front of everyone's eyes, he hopes to use this ancient folk art to celebrate the New Year, celebrate the Lantern Festival. It is understood that Yuan Shuiming is the intangible inheritor of paper-cutting in Tangyin County, Henan Province, since childhood, he loves paper-cutting and painting, and has created a large number of paper-cut products after learning paper-cutting skills, and his paper-cutting works have been exhibited inside and outside the province many times, and won many awards, mainly for traditional auspicious patterns and national hero Yue Fei's theme of paper-cutting.
Paper-cutting is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, and we also have a very rich intangible cultural heritage tradition in Tangyin, so I want children to know the local culture of Tangyin through paper-cutting, and also love the folk art of paper-cutting more! Yuan Shuiming's simple words expressed his infinite love for his hometown, and in the moment he cut it, a vivid and interesting paper-cut with realistic form was made; In addition to conventional paper-cutting, Yuan Shuiming also actively explored, collected a variety of rice paper, according to the different colors and materials of rice paper, the traditional auspicious picture and Yue Fei theme paper-cutting together, created a lot of fine products, in order to better inherit the paper-cutting skills, Chengguan Town has invited Yuan Shuiming and other folk artists to hold intangible cultural heritage into the community, into the campus activities, the paper-cutting into the countryside, campus, so that young people understand the rich and colorful history and culture of paper-cutting, so that children in practice to appreciate the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage.
Participating in the Lantern Festival paper-cutting activity gave me a new understanding of the Lantern Festival and paper-cutting, and also made me love the art of paper-cutting, and I will teach my classmates when school starts. Twelve-year-old Wei Wenjuan, a student at Yuefei Primary School in the town, was very happy to have participated in the event.
Inheriting traditional culture and continuing the memory of civilization, we actively organize and carry out various forms of activities to celebrate the New Year, enhance the creation of rural spiritual civilization through festival activities, tap local talents, carry forward traditional cultural festival activities, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, cultivate a new style and new look of the times, and create a festive and high-spirited rural cultural atmosphere in the town. The relevant person in charge of Chengguan Town said. (Wang Dujun).
Editor: Xiao Wang.