paper cutting with floral patterns

Paper Cuttings Tuanhua is a layout format of Paper Cuttings. It has a circular pattern and is uniform on all four sides. This decorative format can particularly show its advantages in Paper Cuttings. Because the paper can be folded, such as diagonal folding twice, three times, four times, you can cut out the uniform round flowers on all sides. The earliest Paper Cuttings in China, Paper Cuttings of the Northern Dynasty unearthed in Xinjiang, is in the form of round flowers, such as "round flowers for birds", "round flowers for monkeys", "octagonal round flowers", "round flowers with honeysuckle patterns" and "round flowers with chrysanthemum patterns". It can be seen that the Tuanhua format is the oldest format in Paper Cuttings.

That is to say, the symmetrical flower clusters below can be cut out by folding a square paper several times:

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Isn't it very exquisite? It is enough to witness the ingenious ideas and exquisite Paper Cuttings skills of folk artists!