Description
Author: Xiaocha Yuan, Xiumei Ni, Duotang Zhang
Publisher: Royal Collins Publishing Company
Published: 06/30/2021
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.80w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781487807870
ISBN10: 1487807872
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Asian | Chinese
- Crafts & Hobbies | Papercrafts
About the Author
Yuan Xiaocha, born in the 1990s, holds a master's degree from Renmin University of China. She is passionately obsessed with traditional culture, and she has a unique take on Chinese poetry, painting, and traditional art forms. She has edited the Belt and Road Painting Dunhuang series and won the 2016 Guizhou Good Book Award. Her series Painting to Pass the Time won the 2015 National Intellectual Property Patent Award. She has translated 13 books, including Your Voice Can Change the World.Ni Xiumei has inherited the Fangzheng paper cutting style from Heilongjiang, with its strong, natural, generous patterns and their clear artistic expression. Zhang Duotang has inherited the Guangling paper cutting style from Shanxi, the fourth generation heir of the family that founded the form. The composition of this style is vivid, the knifework exquisite, and the materials and dyeing unique and of fine quality. Cheng Xinghong has inherited the paper cutting style of Fuyang, Anhui, which balances rigidity with flexibility, mellowness with flavor, delicacy with roughness, and beauty with simplicity. It is unique for incorporating northern and southern paper cutting styles into a hybrid form. Fan Zuoxin has inherited the simple, exaggerated Gaomi paper cutting style from Shandong, which displays elegance in roughness and intricacy in simplicity. Zhou Shuying has inherited the unique dotted paper cutting style of Yuxian County in Hebei, the only form based on and supplemented by intangible carving. Duan Jianjun is an inheritor of the Inner Mongolian Horinger paper cutting form, which employs a zigzag pattern, crescent pattern, or raindrop pattern as appropriate, bringing some of its decorative patterns out very strikingly.