◎Chenji Paper Cutting

Chenji paper cutting centers on Chenji,Fucheng County,Hengshui City,covering four professional paper-cutting villages,including Xiaoxi Village,Daxi Village and Puchengsi Village,and radiates to more than 40 villages of more than 10 townships and towns in three counties and two cities around Hengshui.With more than 5,000 paper cutters,Chenji is the largest folk paper-cut distribution center in North China.With its charming artistic style,Chenji paper cutting is deeply loved by people of all walks of life at home and abroad.Chenji paper cutting has its unique artistic features.For example,first,it uses alternating Yin and Yang paper-cut and smooth lines; second,its color is simple and image is distinctive; third,its composition is rigorous and shape is beautiful; fourth,its techniques are genious,so that “there are rounds like the autumn moon,sharps like an awn of wheat,squares like a green brick,waves like saw teeth,and lines like beard.” At present,a new kind of paper-cut of portraits has been created successfully.(https://www.daowen.com)

If those paper-cut works are sealed with plastic,framed and mounted,their strong artistic effects are raised to a higher level.They have become the folk art products that both Chinese and foreign people are eager to buy.