The origin of high-density paper-cutting

High-density paper-cutting is a wonderful flower in the Chinese paper-cutting garden. Gaomi paper-cutting with a unique style

Gaomi is known as "the current with nine caves and five dragons, the stacked peaks of the west gravel and the east hill". The superior geographical conditions have nurtured the hard-working and intelligent Gaomi people and created unique folk art. Gaomi folk paper-cutting, an important part of it, stands on its own in the forest of Chinese folk art with its unique artistic style. Gaomi is located in the Jiaodong Peninsula and belongs to the Longshan Culture. As early as more than 5,000 years ago, clans and tribes thrived here. This was the period when totem art flourished in clan society. The objects in totem art began to express their meaning in the form of patterns. High-density paper-cutting - Monkey and Ox

The figurative technique began to turn to the imagery technique, thus the emergence of the Simple and exaggerated expression techniques such as zigzag patterns, crescent patterns, water ripples, arc lines, string lines, and dots. High-density paper-cutting was first developed as a faction of Jiaodong paper-cutting, and has initially developed a delicate style. After the Han Dynasty, especially in the early Ming Dynasty, due to the changes of the times and frequent wars, a large number of immigrants gathered in Gaomi from Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Jiangnan and other places, and maintained relative stability in Gaomi. People lived and worked in peace and contentment, which also made Gaomi folk paper-cutting popular. Art thrives. Most of these immigrants were one family in a village or several relatives who migrated from the government. There were many skilled craftsmen among these people, including many who were good at paper-cutting. Therefore, the richness of Hebei paper-cutting, the roughness of Shanxi paper-cutting, and the delicate and elegant Jiangnan paper-cutting spread to Gaomi. Through mutual exchanges, exchanges, reference, and learning, the paper-cutting art from various places gradually penetrated into the high-density paper-cutting art, blending the south with the north and incorporating everything into the high-density paper-cutting art, forming the unique artistic style of high-density paper-cutting.