Manchu Folk Paper-cut Style Features And Decorative Semantic Inquiry

As one kind of primitive art, the Manchu Traditional Paper Cuts not only have various local characteristic but also maintain the source culture. It is a kind of simple, free ideographic forms which is applied and popularized among the predecessors that they created for themselves when they are in their spare time after production or social activities with which to satisfy the needs of spiritual life. Through reviewing the art form of the Manchu Traditional Paper Cuts, the article intends to reveal the decorative semantics characteristic of paper cuts.The Manchu Traditional Paper Cuts has its unique symbolism and image charm, these symbol originated from the folk with universal social recognition. Its line is stoutness with high resilience; lowering and mellow; rigorous and clever, simple, vigorous and primitive. In its composition, cavalier perspective was adopted to break the limit of time, space and the proportional relationship, highlighting its principle of positive, symmetry and complete composition. The image's primary and secondary, symmetrical and balanced formation principle was used to unify the whole picture. The Manchu Traditional Paper Cuts is diverse in its category, rich in its manifestation, and image formation is its main decorative form.