Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Chinese Paper Cutting

The Story of Chinese Paper Cutting
(handed down from generation to generation)

Long time ago, there was a man who lost his wife and he was really, really lonely. A friend gave him a gift, a lady made of paper cutting that sticks to the lamp. When the lamp is on, there's a huge image of a woman, pretending that's his wife. From then on, Chinese Paper Cutting became famous.

Paper cutting was started 2000+ years ago by Chinese, offering it to their ancestors in heaven, or offered to a person who just passed away.

Nowadays, people use paper cutting  as a gift any time of the year, use as a decoration for windows or doors, and even accessories for body, umbrella, bags, and clothes. Artists also may use different colors.

By the way, I made this for the first time! A lot of patience, but worth!

Weekday Photos
Ruby Tuesday

13 comments:

♥♥ Willa ♥♥ said...

Did you cut that?It's cool!!!

Tracy said...

Really intricate!

Anonymous said...

That's a really pretty image and a neat story behind it! Thanks for sharing and Happy Pink Saturday~

Anonymous said...

That's awesome! Your blog lets me travel. I love it!

Anonymous said...

That is really pretty Lani. Have a great day.

Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...

My friend hgave me cuttings of the Chinese Zodiac. It is too precious to cut.

thanks for the tale of the origin of the paper cutting. i didn't know about this.

Gringo said...

Interesting pix! Glad l found your blog!

Lola said...

Hi again!

What an interesting story - and such a lovely ruby red!

Have a great week,

LOLA:)

btw Mine this time is HERE. Hope you can stop by.

Liza said...

Very interesting! I'd like to learn that.

Happy RT.

Maria @ LSS said...

It's very pretty. Did you cut it?

Maria @ LSS

reg said...

absolutely interesting

Chubskulit Rose said...

That's very pretty.

Ruby Tuesday - Messy but Fun

Linnea said...

It's beautiful and so full of life! Thanks for this information about paper cutting. Nice story. Thanks for stopping by, too.

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