Explanation Of The Documentary "Dream On Paper-Cut"

In August 2021,the General Office of the CPC Central Committee The General Office of the State Council has issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: "Intangible cultural heritage is an important component of China’s excellent traditional culture,a vivid witness of the continuous inheritance of Chinese civilization,and an important foundation for connecting national emotions and maintaining national unity.Protecting,inheriting,and making good use of intangible cultural heritage is of great significance for continuing historical context,strengthening cultural confidence,promoting cultural exchanges and mutual learning,and building a socialist cultural power."Paper Cuttings is a kind of folk art created and spread by the Chinese working people in their working life.It is accompanied by various folk activities.It carries the survival,moral and aesthetic values of the Chinese working people in a square way,and demonstrates its tenacious vitality and unique artistic charm.It is one of the carriers of China’s thousands of years of cultural tradition.In China,Paper Cuttings has the broadest mass base.It blends into the social life of people of all ethnic groups and is an important part of various folk activities.From the late 1970 s to the mid-1980 s,local grassroots art workers went to the countryside.Pang Shulin in Dazu,Chongqing,led a group of Paper Cuttings experts,taking Dazu Rock Carvings as the theme and taking into account all kinds of life themes,transformed three-dimensional space into two-dimensional plane,and created a unique new type of Paper Cuttings "Dazu Paper Cuttings".Dazu Paper Cuttings has absorbed the advantages of many art forms in its nearly 40 years of development,and successfully declared Chongqing’s intangible cultural heritage.This film takes Su Weixi,the fourth generation successor of Dazu Paper Cuttings,as the main line,along the development vein of Dazu Paper Cuttings,tells about the origin,development,inheritance and current situation of Dazu Paper Cuttings,the intangible cultural heritage of Chongqing,and shows the efforts of many Dazu Paper Cuttings successors to inherit and develop Dazu Paper Cuttings.Video recording plays a vital role in the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.This film records the inheritance of intangible culture Dazu Paper Cuttings through video narration,and discusses the significance and difficulties of intangible cultural heritage in the post intangible cultural heritage era of social transformation,which makes the audience start from the embodiment of individuals to think about the intangible cultural heritage itself and its practical difficulties.