Paper Cutting Art

Basic Information

• Year of birth: 1944
• Nationality: Han
• Sex: Female
• Good at creating themes: people and animals
• Native place: Xuqing Village, Gaoqiao Township, Ansai County (now Ansai District, Yan'an City), Shaanxi Province.

Personal Profile

Chen Shenglan (1944-), female, Han nationality, farmer, from Xuqing Village, Gaoqiao Township, Ansai County, Shaanxi Province. Chen Shenglan Gaoqiao Township is a well-known talented people, in 1979 the county cultural center of the paper-cut census, in Gaoqiao Township census out of the first batch of paper-cut experts.

In March 1980, she was invited to attend the paper-cut creation class held by the county cultural center, in which she cut out "Chicken with Fish", "Tiger" and "Grasp the Bun". More than 80 traditional paper-cuts, such as Doll, are used in folk customs.

When her cut "Chicken and Fish" was exhibited in the National Art Museum of China, By the attention of paper-cut research experts, this paper-cut is linked with the "bird and fish" of Yangzhao culture 6000 years ago, and is praised as a living cultural relic. And then this cut. Paper has become a variety of examples to study the development history of folk paper-cut.

Chen Shenglan was only 36 years old when she joined the paper-cut creation class, but she could cut out all kinds of traditional patterns. She said that her mother was a skillful flower cutter. In the past, every woman had a clip to collect patterns. Like her mother, there were many "ancient" patterns in her mother's clip.

When she When the girl was young, she learned to cut flowers according to the patterns. When she got married, her mother gave her her collection of patterns as a dowry. Northern Shaanxi pays attention to pasting window grilles during the Spring Festival, and windows without window grilles are scolded as "blind windows", which is unlucky.

Since she was a child, she has loved to cut out the window grilles. After she got married, no matter how busy she was with farm work and housework, she had to put up the window grilles before noon on New Year's Eve.

During the years of the "Cultural Revolution", it was said that window grilles were the "four old" and were not allowed to be pasted. No matter what is the "four old", she still cut and paste, the content is still evil tiger, evil chicken, snake, plate rabbit and so on. Unlike the original paste paste, but the use of lattice window.