Cutting window flowers is one of the traditional customs in northern Shaanxi, every festival, every household will put red window flowers to set off the festive atmosphere, and place expectations for a better life. The paper-cut works of Gao Yingfeng, a provincial rural craftsman master, the fifth Shaanxi Provincial Arts and Crafts Master, and the municipal inheritor of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting, have blossomed everywhere, not only with their wonderful production methods have gone out of the countryside, but also to the international stage. Before the Spring Festival, the reporter met Gao Yingfeng, who returned to Ganquan from Tunisia to participate in the Spring Festival series of activities, she was cutting paper with her sisters, only to see her holding paper and scissors, tossing and turning, and cutting out a beautiful window flower.
Gao Yingfeng, the city-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting: Today I cut some window flowers with my sisters and pasted them on the windows of the office and home, which is a form of living inheritance of our traditional paper-cutting skills.
On January 16, Gao Yingfeng, a paper-cutting artist in our county, took her beloved scissors to Tunisia to participate in a series of activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Tunisia and the Happy New Year, bringing Ganquan paper-cutting to the world stage.
Gao Yingfeng, the city-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting: I am especially grateful to the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism for giving me this opportunity to exchange and learn from other countries, which made me truly feel the strong cultural and artistic atmosphere of Tunisia and Morocco. In my future artistic creation, to provide me with a certain amount of nutrients and help, in this exhibition and performance activities, the international friends of the two countries are particularly interested in Chinese paper-cutting, they took the initiative to come to our exhibition area, asked to experience our Chinese paper-cutting, after experiencing China's paper-cutting skills, the most said sentence is: Chinese paper-cutting is amazing! As an inheritor, I feel extremely proud and proud to hear such high praise from international friends.
Gao Yingfeng is a farmer in Chaiguan Mountain, Xiasiwan Town, my county, and he has liked female celebrities since he was a child, especially for paper-cutting, which can be said to have a soft spot. Every year during the Chinese New Year, the windows at home are full, so as long as someone in the village marries a daughter-in-law or a married woman, they have to find her to cut the window flowers.
A stack of red paper, a pair of scissors, and a pair of skillful hands, under Gao Yingfeng's insistence, she used her one-handed paper-cutting skills to gradually cut out her fame, and she took the art of paper-cutting as a career to do all her life.
In 2017, with the help of well-wishers and family members, Gao Yingfeng established Ganquan Yuanzhi Folk Culture Marketing Co., Ltd. and devoted himself to the traditional folk art of paper-cutting. In order to let more people understand and love intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting, she also organized paper-cutting training classes, paper-cutting into campuses, and paper-cutting into villages.
Gao Yingfeng, who has become wealthy, does not forget to give back to the society, she uses paper-cutting as a "medium" to unite and lead more women and sisters around her to participate in her paper-cutting art, the company has extended from a single paper-cutting training business to free waist drums and beautician training, and then exports talents to the society, broadens the employment channels of women and sisters, and increases the income of women and sisters.
Lu Guilan, the county-level inheritor of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting: I am a housewife, since I learned paper-cutting with Mr. Gao, not only to bring some living subsidies to the family, but also to bring spiritual fun, I am a county-level inheritor, I want to pass on my paper-cutting skills to future generations.
2023 is a fruitful year for Gao Yingfeng and her team. After winning awards in provincial and municipal competitions, Gao Yingfeng's paper-cutting works won the third prize of the first National Farmer Skills Competition, and she was recognized as a provincial rural craftsman and a master of arts and crafts in Shaanxi Province. Since the establishment of Ganquan Yuanzhi Folk Culture Marketing Co., Ltd., which she founded, it has trained more than 1,700 skilled talents, provided more than 300 jobs, and driven more than 1,000 women around to get rich by relying on paper-cutting skills.
Gao Yingfeng, the municipal inheritor of intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting: In the future work, I will use more ways and different forms to pass on our paper-cutting skills, and I will work harder and learn more knowledge, inject new vitality and blood into our traditional skills, create more works of art, and at the same time drive the people around me, so that they can achieve something in our paper-cutting art, increase their economic income, and hope to have more opportunities in the future. Let me bring the people around me to spread our paper-cutting skills to more places and show them to more people.
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