Paper Cutting

    Paper-cut is a traditional folk decoration art, especially popular in Foshan area. The long history of the paper-cut can be traced back Song Dynasty, while its most prosperous time is in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Now the paper-cut products are very popular in Guangdong province and southwest of China, as well as in Asian countries. The traditional Foshan paper-cut features the themes of festival and luck, exorcising and blessing, children and longevity, etc. A unique local style is shaped with the brilliant copper foils adopted in the paper-cut.