[Concurrent] Wang Ge, the inheritor of intangible cultural paper-cutting in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

　　Hello everyone, I am Wang Ge, the inheritor of intangible cultural paper-cutting in the (Xinjiang Uygur) Autonomous Region. Whenever I pick up the scissors and start paper-cutting, I feel that the joys, angers and sorrows of life can be integrated into the work in this. In this paper-cutting, I think there is a lot of fun. I love paper-cutting very much, because paper-cutting is my second life.

　　I have been cutting paper with my grandma and mother since I was little, and now I have been engaged in paper cutting for more than 50 years.

At that time, paper-cutting was used to embroider on clothes and collars, such as window grilles and happy characters.

In retrospect, paper-cutting is the perfect combination of folk art and life.

　　There are two factions of paper-cutting, one is the southern faction and the other is the northern faction.

The southern style is mainly based on knife carving, with smooth and delicate lines; the northern style is mainly based on scissors, which is rough and bold.

In each work, it is divided into yin cut and yang cut.

The female shear is the line and the line are not connected, and the male shear is the line and the line.

In our current works, it will combine the yin cut and the yang cut into one. When creating the Xinjiang ethnic characteristic paper-cuts, the cutting and cutting method can more highlight the national characteristics of the work.

　　I have created more than 1,000 paper-cut works. The theme of my creation has a large number of Xinjiang characteristic elements. From food, landmarks, national musical instruments, portraits, costumes, dances, etc., there are traditional paper-cut works, custom patterns, group fans, and outside screens. , And paper-cutting of Xinjiang dotcai.

Dotting paper-cutting is to use white rice paper to compose a picture, then cut it out, and finally dye it out with mineral pigments. It takes nearly a year for a complete and large work.

In several universities in Xinjiang, I teach paper-cutting to students. In addition to teaching traditional paper-cutting to college students, they also teach Xinjiang color-cutting paper-cutting specifically for students. This is very popular among college students.

　　This work "The Belt and Road", this story tells that a princess married to the Western Regions, hiding silkworm eggs in her hat, and brought a hundred craftsmen to Xinjiang, weaving silk, and then we have our Xinjiang. Adelis silk.

For this work, we used the technique of cutting and engraving it for three months to produce it, and then using the technique of dyeing (dyeing) it to express it. Although the process is extremely cumbersome, the effect is very good.

　　Xinjiang is a good place to create more and better paper-cutting works. Every year we go to Kashgar, Hotan, northern and southern Xinjiang to gather styles and find inspiration from the lives and labor of local ethnic minorities.

The work we are seeing now is Aksu’s "Dao Lang Mai Xilaifu" is a national intangible cultural heritage project. Every time I go to Aksu, I will see people singing and laughing when celebrating the harvest, eating grapes, drinking wine, singing and dancing in the fields. , We express their scenes with dotted paper-cutting techniques to make the works more ornamental and artistic.

　　Paper-cutting has been more than fifty years old now. I think traditional paper-cutting skills need to be passed on and need to keep pace with the times.

Like now, I use a variety of materials to blend it with paper-cutting, such as silk scarves and bookmarks with paper-cut patterns, so that the elements of paper-cutting have the opportunity to enter more people’s homes.

If you want to inherit, you must innovate. Innovation has a market, and only with a market can there be better inheritance.

　　I have established the Xinjiang Intangible Heritage Paper-cutting Museum and Xinjiang Intangible Heritage Museum in Xinjiang. We have taught thousands of classes across Xinjiang and taught paper-cutting lessons to tens of thousands of people.

Someone said, "Isn't your old lady getting so busy every day?" I just wanted to say, I'm busy for paper-cutting, and I don’t feel tired at all. I hope that through my efforts, more people can understand paper-cutting and like paper-cutting. , Let more people participate in paper-cutting, this is my best hope.

(Rong Rui)

Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】