Wuji Paper-cut Inheritance Status Quo Of The Reseach

Paper-cut is one of the most popular traditional folk arts. It went through a great manycultural changes. It is invented and developed based on the people’s understandings abouteveryday life. What it presents is not only people’s aesthetic preferences, but also their deepfeelings about the society, so paper-cut is one of the most characteristic arts.The moulds of Wuji’s paper-cut are simple but exaggerated, beautiful and rhythmic sothat they make a strong decorative statement full of delight of folk life and romance. Based onthe practical labor and everyday life, it is an art which is brimming with folk customs.Furthermore, it is the precious historical and cultural heritage of China.This essay includes the on-site record and the related documents about Wuji’s paper-cut.The paper-cut is analyzed by means of classified summary, macro analysis and text researchaccording to folk culture and custom, people’s aesthetic need, and the social developmentfrom the point of history, art and anthropology. Firstly, the historical origin of the paper-cut istraced from different aspects, and thus the implicit concerns of human beings and the aestheticconnotation are analyzed. Secondly, this essay researches how to inherit and develop thedifferent patterns of Wuji’s paper-cut in the changing modern society and against thebackground that our country pays a lot to conserve and develop the non-material culturalheritages. In addition, it makes analysis about the idea and practical guidance relating to theproblems of the patterns in order to express the hope that the paper-cut can flourish in the folkculture circumstances. This is of great significance to enhancing the awareness of protectingthe traditional Chinese culture and promoting the development of the precious Chinesecustoms. And thus this may make contribution to promoting the Wuji’s paper-cut’s protectionand heritage.