Illustration of paper-cutting course for junior middle school students

The paper-cutting course for junior high school students, taking continuous rabbits as an example, has the following steps:

Materials to be prepared: paper, scissors, bottle caps and pens.

1. Step 1: Take out the prepared paper, as shown in the dimension drawing.

Fold this paper three times in a row.

3. After folding, take out the bottle cap prepared in advance and draw a semicircle in the middle of the paper.

4. Draw a semicircle, which is the rabbit's head, and then draw the shapes of ears and rabbit's body on both sides, as shown in the figure.

5. After painting, take out the scissors and cut them along the shape of the painting.

6. Cutting is the shape of a rabbit.

7. Draw your favorite pattern, and continuous rabbits will be cut.

Scope of paper cutting:

Paper-cutting is one of the traditional fine arts and national intangible cultural heritages in Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province. Shanxi is located on the east bank of the Yellow River, and Fenshui runs through it. It mainly shows the local folk beliefs, seasons, life etiquette, myths and legends in Zhongyang. Paper-cutting is a kind of hollow art, which gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually.

Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials. Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history and widespread in rural areas of China. Paper-cutting, as its name implies, is to cut paper into various patterns with scissors, such as window grilles, doormats, wall hangings, ceiling hangings and snuff.

The emergence and spread of this folk art is closely related to the festival customs in rural areas of China. On holidays or wedding celebrations, people will stick beautiful and bright paper-cuts on white window paper or bright glass windows, walls, doors and lanterns, and the festive atmosphere will be rendered very rich and festive. Paper-cutting has many contents and wide meanings.

And plain hope to avoid evil; Dolls, gourds, lotus flowers and other patterns symbolize more children and more happiness, and farmers in China think that more children and more happiness; Poultry, livestock, melons, fruits, fish and insects are closely related to farmers' lives and are also important contents of paper-cutting. From the understanding of paper-cutting, we can easily understand other aspects of China folk art.