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China Economic Weekly-Economic Net News “Being a person is like cutting paper. If you make a wrong cut, you have to do it again. If you take a wrong step in your life, you will not regret it …” On November 27, Mengjin County held the “Handyman At the show venue, Mengjin’s heir, Chang Yang Yang, and the county’s second direct kindergarten teachers and students jointly created the” Meeting “Lotus” and “Walking with “” honesty, which combined clean family style with paper-cutting culture. The combination, with unique ideas and beautifully set performances, sparked a strong resonance with the audience and won first prize.
The success of the program is the inheritance and penetration of the Mengjin paper cutting as the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Henan Province in 2015, and the achievement of the county’s continuous promotion of excellent local culture on campus.
Mengjin has a deep cultural heritage, a rich cultural heritage, and popular paper-cutting skills have a long history of heritage. During the Spring Festival, the “Fu” flowers pasted between the jacarandas on the door, the Lantern Festival, the “Spring” flowers printed on the lanterns, when weddings, the “happy” flowers in the bedside room are plastered and the birthday stars’ clothes form a ball on the birthday The “shou” flowers from “Shou” are the interpretation of the paper cut in life, expressing people’s best wishes for a happy life and creating a strong festive atmosphere.
As an intangible cultural heritage at the provincial level, the paper cutout can be created with a pair of scissors and a piece of colored paper. It is easy to operate and has great meaning. In recent years, the county has strengthened the protection and heritage of paper-cutting culture by declaring intangible cultural heritage and holding county-wide paper-cutting contests, and has actively promoted the culture of paper-cutting. on campuses driven by heirs representative of the paper cut.
“A knife to the left, a knife to the right … The entrance door to Tiananmen Square was opened for us!” In October this year, Mengjin’s second boy organized a paper-cutting activity for the children to celebrate the double feast and a good harvest. In the vivid explanation of Chang Yang Yang, the heir to the paper cut, Mengjin’s second preschool class children took scissors and felt the charm of cutting paper with Master Yang Yang.
Chang Yang Yang is the youngest representative heir of the paper cutting in the county. She started learning about “reaming flowers” from her grandmother when she was 7 years old, and has participated in many national, provincial and municipal paper-cutting contests and has won awards. After the “big world”, he set himself the goal of “finding more non-genetic heirs from the younger generation.” Since 2018, Chang Yangyang has been to Mengjin No. 2 Children many times to teach paper-cutting techniques to teachers and to popularize the science and knowledge of intangible heritage for children. Mengjin’s second son integrates the culture of cutting paper into regional kindergarten games, setting the environment, and homeschooling. Through a variety of activities, large and small, he guides children to perceive and understand the connotation of local culture and to cultivate the emotion of loving their hometown and homeland.
Young people are the main force to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The county is actively creating “Henan-South Africa Heritage — Mengjin Paper-cut” consolidation project in primary and secondary schools, including paper-cutting in school community organization, and regularly inviting representative heirs from paper cutting to school to teach students for free.
Wang Qiuyun, 64, is the “grandmother Wang” loved by the students. She is a member of the Changhua community in the county town and has been obsessed with paper cutting since she was a child. With the enrichment of the life experience, he integrated the perception of life into the art of paper cutting, seeking inspiration in the development and changes that surround it, and constantly creating paper cutting works with novel themes: from the leader founder loved by the masses to the active market; from Her Burning Life collective, to rewarding changes in the community … Today, she is a board member of the Luoyang Paper-Cutting Society, a member of the Henan Folk Artists Association, and has been identified as a representative heir to cultural heritage municipal intangible. She enthusiastically teaches paper cutting skills. Not only are his grandson and daughter-in-law his family disciples, but he also cultivated a group of paper-cutting lovers in the community. At the same time, she also taught paper-cutting training classes at Mengjin County Senior College, elementary and middle schools, and kindergartens, and volunteered more than 1,000 apprentices.
While cutting paper inherits abilities, it is also a cultural and spiritual heritage. In the county, in addition to the representative paper-cutting heirs like Chang Yangyang and Wang Qiuyun, there are more than 30 popular paper-cutting artists like Zhao Jiangong. In recent years, they have combined traditional paper-cutting elements with modern design, and have constantly expanded the combination of paper-cutting themes, using paper-cutting to promote “anti-corruption and uphold integrity”, promote the “poverty reduction”, show the “revitalization of the village” and sing “anti-epidemic spirit”. Using scissors and colored paper to “cut the card” to local economic and social development.
Today, the county’s elementary and middle schools and kindergartens continue to promote traditional and excellent cultural activities on campus. As a provincial “intangible cultural heritage” project, the art of cutting paper is becoming increasingly popular with children. As more people join the “intangible heritage” heritage protection team, Mengjin’s paper cutting will surely go ahead, “cutting” the traditional cultural beauty and “cutting” a happy new life. (Guo Zhenhua, Wang Wenjuan, Jia Pengbo)
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