Paper-cutting is "art on the fingertips", and its unique form and rich elements give paper-cutting the unique charm of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Lu Yanli is a "skillful" woman born and raised in Jingning, and she has been obsessed with the art of paper-cutting since she was a child. With her long-term study, she can now use a few pieces of red paper and all kinds of small scissors to cut out works of art with Jingning local characteristics and full of human fireworks, and she has also become a member of the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association and a representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of paper-cutting at the municipal level.
Good luck in the Year of the Dragon, welcome the New Year with skillful hands. Lu Yanli used her dexterous hands to cut out the taste of the Year of the Dragon, and the "Nian" in her hand was full of fine and delicate flavor. In the paper-cut works with the theme of the Year of the Dragon, such as "auspicious dragon blessing, return with blessing, dragon and phoenix blessing, and wishful harvest", the dragon dragon, the dragon and Jingning apples are cleverly combined, which is lifelike and rich in meaning.
It not only reflects the traditional inheritance, but also fits the aesthetics of the times. "Every year during the Spring Festival, I will cut a work for Jingning apples, this year I present some more auspicious clouds and water elements in my works, with the dragon and phoenix symbolizing the harmony of yin and yang, praying for the blessing of my hometown Jingning This year's wind and rain will be smooth, the apples can usher in a bumper harvest, and the life of the people in my hometown will be better and better. Lu Yanli pointed to a work called "Ruyi Harvest" and said.
A pair of scissors cut out a strong New Year's flavor, carving out the world in a millimeter. "Traveling to Welcome God", "Five Thousand Years of Cultural History", "My Dragon Boat Festival Is Like This", "Fuxi Victory", "Creative Gansu", "Olympic Chinese Soul" and other works have slender cutting methods and expressive characters, reaching the realm of "more wonderful to look like a god", and have been praised by many people.
It is hoped that in the development of tourism at the county level, we will increase the promotion and excavation of traditional art categories, seek the combination of intangible cultural heritage and cultural tourism, and attract more people to pay attention to intangible cultural heritage, understand the charm of intangible cultural heritage, and inherit and continue it," said Lu Yanli.
*: New Gansu Gansu Peasant Daily correspondent Wang Yafei