Every art has its own art style. For the material and tools used in paper cut decide its art style. Paper cut is easy to learn, but hard to be professional. Paper cutters are almost village women and folk artists. The subjects they choose for paper cut is from daily life by their rustic feeling and instinctive impression. Therefore, paper cut art becomes sample, conscious and vivid. Several experiences from predecessors:

	First, line-line connected and line-line broken. For paper cut art is cut or chiseled from paper, hollow-out means must be adopted. By hollow-out, Yangwen paper cut must be line-line connected and Yinwen paper cut must be line-line broken. If line in one part is snipped, the whole paper cut will be fragmented. So the structure should be no drop even with thousand chisel and no broken even
	with ten thousand cut. This is a important

Second, on sculpt and pictures. On sculpt, paper cut is different from other paintings. It cannot manifest tridimensionality. Its scene and image overlap, and it has breakthrough on proportion and perspective. It mainly relies on he connection of images on content and adopt combination means. For there are exaggeration and transfiguration in sculpting, and some rules on picture beauty can be used to make process of symmetry, neat, balance, combination and successiveness, etc.

Third, the images are exaggerated, simple, elegant, rhythm sensation. For the limitation on tools and materials, in the process of paper cut, both image characteristics and line connection should be paid attention. Therefore, naturalism realistic means should not be adopted. Main part of images should be emphasized and minor parts should be omitted. The figure should be conspicuous and has plain elegance. Gestures of image should be exaggerated, like the showing act on stage and has rhythm sensation.

Fourth, color should be pure, bright. Color of paper cut should be sophisticated from simple, with less same or similar color, requiring getting harmony from contrast color. At the same time color proportion should be paid attention. If one color becomes the main color, others can be weakened on contrast. When dealing with different colors, feeling uncomfortable, we
should put them into golden or black background.

Fifth, knife means should be “steady, accurate and artful.” Many characteristics and styles of folk paper cut derive from the techniques of knife means. For example, many details on “Bai Ju Tu” of Zhang Yongshou are under knife techniques. For example, “Luo Han Xu” chrysanthemum, it has direct petals at first and then has curved ones at its blossom. This chrysanthemum should be cut from inside to outside. In this way, the petals will be curved vividly, and then a unique, beautiful chrysanthemum comes out. When chiseling a “Lu Si Yu” chrysanthemum, “draw out means” should be adopted. For its petals cover each other and draw each other. The cutting petals should be one connecting the other, one following the other. In this way, the petals can be right in size and shape and look different, plumpy and beautiful like feather of bittern.

When cutting a lot of papers, we should cut but not slash, for the paper cut slashed out looks more massy than the cut ones. Using knife should liking using saw, cutting up and down, The strength should be powerful and equal, otherwise, the knife will lose agility. Please do not swing left ad right, the knife must be upright, then the paper cut will be accurate. When cutting, that action must be nicety, especially at the connected point, otherwise, the lines or the whole paper cut may easily be destroyed by knife.

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