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Re-recognizing the Cultural Significance of Paper-cut

Sun Jian-jun

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Chinese folk paper-cut is well known for its venerability, profound impact, exquisite craftsmanship, and typical and distinctive regional features. Throughout centuries, bright and colorful paper-cut art created by different peoples composes the important part of traditional Chinese arts, implying an abundant and profound content of societal life, historical culture, customs, religious belief, and aesthetic ideal. There are mainly 3 aspects including legendary stories, auspicious conception, and folk customs represented in Chinese folk paper-cut. It likes a mirror to reflect people's work and life, and also reflect their emotion and pursue in its peculiar art language.

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Chinese folk paper-cut is well known for its venerability, profound impact, exquisite craftsmanship, and typical and distinctive regional features. Throughout centuries, bright and colorful paper-cut art created by different peoples composes the important part of traditional Chinese arts, implying an abundant and profound content of societal life, historical culture, customs, religious belief, and aesthetic ideal. There are mainly 3 aspects including legendary stories, auspicious conception, and folk customs represented in Chinese folk paper-cut. It likes a mirror to reflect people's work and life, and also reflect their emotion and pursue in its peculiar art language.

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Chinese folk paper-cut is well known for its venerability, profound impact, exquisite craftsmanship, and typical and distinctive regional features. Throughout centuries, bright and colorful paper-cut art created by different peoples composes the important part of traditional Chinese arts, implying an abundant and profound content of societal life, historical culture, customs, religious belief, and aesthetic ideal. There are mainly 3 aspects including legendary stories, auspicious conception, and folk customs represented in Chinese folk paper-cut. It likes a mirror to reflect people's work and life, and also reflect their emotion and pursue in its peculiar art language.

Key concepts: Aesthetics, Ideal (ethics), The arts, Folk culture, Art, Sociology, History, Visual arts

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