Yu County Paper-cut Art Spirit

Weixian of the northwest of Hebei Province’s County paper form in themiddle and late Qing Dynasty, the historical period of up to200years, preliminarystage, mature period and the innovation period three phase. It originates from thefolk, condensation of the ordinary people of collective very intelligent and artistictalent. It comes from the Weixian County embroidery art, which was the SchoolsDrama influence, absorption of Tianjin Wuqiang New Year paintings, Hebei YangLiuqing wooden plank watermark bars and other means of artistic expression,colorful crisp, at the same time by the Weixian County local culture and tradition,and their worldly labor living close together, formed a unique artistic style andconnotation. In recent years, many schools of paper-cut have begun to decline, somebegan to shrink until it disappeared, and at the Weixian County paper-cut art hascontinued to grow and develop, what reason, what kind of inner strength to let it bebetter inheritance and development, this paper takes Weixian County geographicalenvironment, the humanities environment and history as the background, combinedwith the aesthetics, psychology, philosophy and folklore of numerous subjects suchas the method of combination of Weixian County paper-cut art inside and otherspiritual value, aesthetic value research. Weixian County paper-cut is comes fromfolk ordinary people’s culture and the arts, but it with people’s customs and spiritualties, decided Weixian County paper-cutting art in Chinese art history. The extremelyimportant position, but also because the Weixian County paper-cut artists to thepaper-cut art and unlimited love for art a the persistent, more let Weixian Countypaper-cut art enduring, shine.