Paper-cutting Folk Art in Northeast China: Artistic Features and Cultural Context

Abstract

As an important part of my country's intangible cultural heritage, Northeast China's folk paper-cutting carries a rich regional culture and national spirit. This paper takes the paper-cutting art of Northeast China as the research object, sorting out its cultural origins, artistic characteristics, and its contemporary transformation and application. First, starting from the geographical environment, ethnic beliefs and folk customs of Northeast China, this paper analyzes the shamanic culture, multi-ethnic integration characteristics and philosophical implications contained in paper-cutting. Secondly, we summarize its unique artistic characteristics from the aspects of modeling language, composition, and expression techniques, explore the transformation path of paper-cutting language in contemporary art, design, and cultural and creative products, and analyze its practical cases in the fields of visual communication, spatial installation, digital media, etc. Finally, in light of the background of globalization and digitalization, the author proposes strategies and future development paths for the cross-cultural dissemination of Northeastern paper-cutting, aiming to promote the living inheritance and innovative development of traditional paper-cutting art, and provide theoretical reference and practical reference for the contemporary transformation of Chinese folk art.