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Paper-cut
Folk paper-cuts, though often used as patterns for embroidery, serve as window decorations. When Spring Festival comes, the windows of the grey houses on the Guanzhong Plain and of the caves on the Northern Shaanxi Plateau are decorated with paper-cuts.
With bright red paper-cuts of all kinds on snow white window paper, the atmosphere appears a lot more festive. At the same time, the paper-cuts contain people’s good wishes. Shaanxi paper-cuts are considered to be both bold and unconstrained, brief and exaggerated works of art. It have a long history. Originating In the cradle of ancient Chinese culture, they have been handed down from generation to generation among people. They seem to tell us vividly of the ancient stories of the Chinese nation and pull at the heartstrings of the Chinese people.
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