As we all know, Chinese paper cutting is a kind of decorative design which is cut by scissors and gravers on the colored papers, and Chinese paper cutting is a kind of folk artwork which is usually used to decorate people’s daily life or coordinate other folk activities. Besides, paper cutting possesses comprehensive and extensive mass base in China, and it usually fuses and combines with all kinds of people’s social life, and paper cutting is the important composition party of all kinds of folk activities.
In the meantime, the special and beautiful visual images and model formats of Chinese paper cutting have already contained abundant and rich cultural and historic information and Chinese paper cutting also conveys and illustrates social awareness and moral concepts, practical experiences, life ideals as well as aesthetic tastes of the whole public base, which makes them own multiple social values, such as the awareness value, the teaching value, the expressing value, the conveying value and the entertainment value as well as social communication value, etc.
Moreover, the heritage of Chinese paper cutting artworks approved by Chinese State Council was listed and collected into the first lot of state-level non-materials cultural heritage list on the date of 20th, May, 2006. After that, during the important period from 28th, September, 2009 to 2nd, October, 2009, the fourth meeting of Intergovernmental Committee of the protection of non-materials cultural heritage held by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had taken place. And in this meeting, the project of Chinese paper cutting declared and claimed by China was also selected and listed into “Human intangible cultural heritage representative list” at that time.
In addition, we really hope that all the important information mentioned above can be useful and helpful to all of you.