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The Foshan paper cuts are divided into different styles, and named after the materials and making methods - copper lining, paper lining, copper writing, silver writing, woodcut, copper chiseling, and solid color etc. The copper lining material, copper writing material and copper carving material are the most typical.
The "copper lining material" is for the cutting knife to carve picture lines and structure on the copper foil, which is lined with color paper according to the demand of design. The "copper writing material" is for the combination of painting and paper-cut, first carving the outline on the copper foil with cutting knife before painting with color foundation mixed with glue. The "copper carving material" is nearly the same with the copper writing material, where the picture or figure outline is chiseled out with special chisel, with the outline like a chain of pearls that are not connected but painted with powder colors.
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The subjects of these paper-cuts are favorable to flowers, birds, fishes and animals that symbolize luck.
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18 scissors, 288 Chinese names, 226.93 meters…. The world's longest paper-cut in Guinness Record came into being in the capable hands of a young girl from Guangzhou. She is Han Yan, Queen of paper-cut in Guangzhou and honored as the youngest master of Guangzhou Arts and Crafts.
Han had interest in paper-cut in young age when she had already made some very beautiful handwork pieces. Later she took courses on painting and arts in college, which inspired her to pick up scissors four years ago. Her first creation was a paper-cut out of a picture of her husband and herself. From then on, she starts her career as a paper cut artist. In the past four years, she had consulted experienced paper-cut artists from Hohhot of Inner Mongolia, Yangzhou, Ningbo, Beijing and Tianjin for techniques of different styles of paper-cut throughout China. Many vivid masterpieces were then created and won her again and again compliments from the public.
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