Visiting the First Village of Chinese Paper-cutting in Spring: Keeping Spring on paper is busy with production and sales

On April 25th, in Nanzhangzhuang Village, Yuxian County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, which is known as "the first village of Chinese paper-cutting", paper-cutting masters fixed the meaning of spring in their works, and when they met paper-cutting art in spring, they became more poetic. Yuxian paper-cut in Hebei Province originated from the Ming Dynasty, which is the only paper-cut in China with negative engraving as the main part and positive engraving as the supplement, and it is also one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Yuxian paper-cut is made of Xuan paper, carved by hand with a carving knife, and then dyed with gorgeous colors. At present, a relatively complete paper-cutting industrial chain of "exhibition-marketing-base-training" has been formed in the local area, with an annual sales of more than 5 million sets of paper-cutting and an annual output value of more than 200 million yuan. The picture shows Nanzhangzhuang Village, Yuxian County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, which is known as the "First Village of Chinese Paper-cutting". Photo by Wang Zixuan

The picture shows the staff coloring the paper-cuts. Photo by Wang Zixuan

The picture shows the staff coloring the paper-cuts. Photo by Wang Zixuan

The picture shows the paper-cutting master coloring the paper-cutting. Photo by Wang Zixuan

The picture shows the paper-cutting master coloring the paper-cutting. Photo by Wang Zixuan

The picture shows the paper-cutting master carving paper-cutting works by hand. Photo by Wang Zixuan

Editor: [Li Yusu]
Source: Hebei Provincial Foreign Experts Bureau