The Chinese even made toilet paper! Ask the children to describe in their own words what they just learned about the history of paper in China, and how their cut-outs relate to a historical tradition ...

Jiao Wenjun shows one of his paper-cuts to visitors in Beijing, Aug 18, 2018. [Photo by Wang Qiao/chinadaily.com.cn] Twenty enthusiasts of traditional Chinese paper-cutting (or jianzhi 剪纸 ...

As a key part of Chinese social life in all ethnic groups, paper-cut expresses the moral principles, philosophies and aesthetic ideals of its exponents. It continues to provide an outlet for emotion ...

cut out to form flowers, butterflies and other symbols, as if to suggest that his works — as daring as they are — should still be seen as an extension of the traditional Chinese canon.

Chinese paper cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns out of paper, which are then used as decorations. The images used in this art form are full of rich ...

Paper cutting, a Chinese folk art with over 1,000 years of ... are passed by women from generation to generation. Since paper cut art was created mainly to celebrate festivals and mark auspicious ...

Six paper-cut makers in northwest China's Shaanxi Province were recently bestowed the title of folk paper-cut artists by China's Ministry of Culture and the United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

As the first Chinese paper-cut animated series, the Calabash Brothers merges the advantages of both hand-painted animation and paper-cut animation, presenting a unique visual style that appealed ...

making the audiences find everything new and fresh and adding a new kind of film to Chinese cartoon films. Following Pig Bajie Eat Watermelons, several other paper-cut animated films came out ...

With it, he creates animals, buildings and ornaments out of paper, at his cosy store a stone’s throw away from Jonker Street here. Tan, 45, discovered his passion for Chinese paper cutting while ...

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University held a Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop with Master Ming Liang Lu. “Cutting Through Culture: Chinese Paper-Cutting Workshop ...