pages: 108　　　　　version: 1

Chinese paper-cutting boasts a long history for over 2,100 years. Today this custom is carried on in most households, particularly during the Spring Festival, by hanging steamers on the door jambs and sticking paper cuts to the windows for decoration. It’s extremely concise in its artistic form simply cutting some holes in different places on a piece of paper. The final image on the paper-cut comes into being from the contrast of the solid part and the empty part. This technique is one of the particularities of Chinese traditional artistic creation. Except for several pieces in the book, all the other paper-cuts were collected from the rural areas some 20 years ago.