"Cut the'three-dimensional version of the crane' is much more difficult than the plane paper-cut!" Recently, in Fuxi Pedestrian Street, Ziliujing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, the representative inheritor of Sichuan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Zigong Paper-cut Shen Chenglin sat on a chair with a The scissors move slowly along the edge of the red paper, sometimes turning the red paper, and sometimes changing the angle of the scissors.
In a short while, a "three-dimensional version of the crane" that can stand up vividly "stands" on the table.
Shen Chenglin is 76 years old this year. Over the years, he has created six techniques including mounting, painting, calendaring, photography, dip dyeing, and fire painting.
In 2021, Shen Chenglin's "three-dimensional paper-cutting method", which has been brewing for many years, came out. It changed the history of Zigong paper-cutting for more than 400 years with only "flat paper-cutting".
Shen Chenglin said that in the next step, development and improvement will be gradually carried out to make it more vital and inheritable. At the same time, three-dimensional paper-cut models such as palace lanterns and red lanterns will be created one after another.
(Reporter Liu Gang produced Lu Huiqian)
Editor in charge: [Zhang Kaixin]