Traditional Chinese Paper-cutting Elements Application In Contemporary Gifts Design

Chinese paper cutting is the most representative in Chinese folk culture of primitive art. Has a long history of more than 2000 years in feudal times. Especially Chinese folk paper-cut art lies in China’s long history, splendid history, is still in the form of original ecological and oral teaching. It not only represents the labor people’s infinite desire for life and art, also is a microcosm of China’s cultural heritage and development.Traditional Chinese paper cutting has a unique folk art aesthetic and profound cultural background, it is closely combined with People’s Daily lives, is closely related to people’s culture, is the people rich spiritual life wealth. It with tenacious vitality in unique expression form for the extensive and profound folk culture of the Chinese nation added the most life colour.In this paper the history and development of traditional Chinese paper-cutting trend as the foundation, applying traditional Chinese paper-cutting element and contemporary gift design, the combination of highlighting the Chinese paper-cut art performance and application in the field of gifts and other design, let the local folk art express on modern art design, show a rich ethnic background of the Chinese paper-cut art brought about by the visual and artistic enjoyment, in order to promote folk culture heritage and the development of worldwide played a positive role in promoting.