appreciate paper cutting of animals

Paper Cuttings is one of the traditional Chinese handicrafts. There are different styles of Paper Cuttings works among the people all over the country. As early as the Han and Tang dynasties, there was a trend among folk women to use gold, silver foil, and colored silk to cut square flowers and birds and stick them on their temples as decorations. Later on, it gradually developed and during festivals, stories of various flowers, plants, animals, or characters were cut from colored paper and pasted on windows (called "window flowers") and door lintels (called "door signs") as decorations. They were also used as gift decorations or embroidery patterns.

Modern Paper Cuttings has experienced the continuous innovation of folk art and integrated the essence of folk artists. Due to the different regions, modern Paper Cuttings presents colorful style changes. Some Paper Cuttings works are rough and powerful, with abstract images, and some works have fine lines and vivid images.

Among them, animal Paper Cuttings has also become an important role in Paper Cuttings. Various animal images are displayed under the scissors of Paper Cuttings artists, including the following scene like Paper Cuttings paintings:

There is also a silhouette of this animal:

There are also such decorative Paper Cuttings paintings:

Cloud Flying Horse