The Origin of Chinese Paper-cuts

Chinese Paper-cut is a kind of hollowed-out arts, which brings you a perspective feeling and beautiful artistic enjoying. Paper-cuts can be made out of paper, gold foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials.
Chinese paper-cut is one of the most popular folk art. According to the archaeology‘s record, the history of paper-cuts can be traced to the six century AD, but many people consider that it should be several hundred years earlier than the fact of its origin time. Chinese paper-cuts are often used in ritual, decoration and plastic arts.
In the past, there was a tradition in china. People liked to make some physicals and figures with hard paper, then buried with the dead or burned in the funeral. Now, this phenomenon still can be seen outside of China. Chinese paper-cuts generally had some symbol significance, that’s also the reason why it was used in the ritual etc. In addition, paper-cuts had also been used as decoration when offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors.
Nowadays, paper-cuts are more often used as decoration. Paper-cuts can decorate the house wall, door & window, pillars of house, mirror, light, lantern, and so on. Paper-cuts can be even as a gift to your friends. There was a time that paper-cuts were use as model of embroidery or painting.