The fourth Chinese Paper-Cut Art Festival (the third Yuzhou International Paper-Cut Art Festival) will be held from July 8 to 10 in Yuxian county in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province.

Tillicum Middle School 6th-grader Ezra Tores put down his scissors and held up a red paper dragon he had cut out. Skip to content. Sunday, June 15, 2025. 49°F. Newsletter Contact Us. Search; ...

As dawn breaks over a village in suburban Beijing, 75-year-old Hao Lanying sits at her desk, scissors in hand, cutting red paper into the shape of a snake winding around a bird.

“Paper-cutting may seem simple but the art of Chinese paper-cutting requires perseverance. It is more than using a pair of scissors and a scalpel to cut designs on red paper.

The snake-themed designs (top) are popular during Chinese New Year celebrations. [Photo by ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY] In 2005, Yu spent two months finishing a paper-cutting masterpiece measuring 10 ...

Paper-cutting art: 1,000-years-old Chinese paper-cutting art was included in the “List of Representative Works of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage” in 2009 and Unesco describes it as “one ...

The significance of red, a colour traditionally believed to ward off the monster Nian, plays a larger role within the ...

This Free Layered Year of the Snake cut file is made up of 5 layers, and you can cut all five or just the top one. You can use the top layer of the year of the Chinese New Year of the Snake cut ...

WITH a pair of scissors in hand, Cheang Kam Foong can instantly turn a piece of red paper into auspicious Chinese characters with 3D effect.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese art with unique traditional traits and appealing content can have higher visibility in the mainstream Western art world, a Chinese artist dedicated to ...

KANGAR: Over the past decade, 71-year-old Koay Choon Aun has perfected the art of paper cutting and calligraphy – art forms that are essential decorative elements during the Chinese New Year.

Chinese Folk Art -- Paper Cutting Long time ago, glassware was very expensive. Instead, people would paste a kind of Korean paper to their window frames. When the New Year came, ...