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Chinese paper cutting originated around the 1st century AD when the Chinese invented paper. During the Tang Dynasty, there are records of using colored paper and paper cut decorations, showing it had become common enough for artistic use. Even though calligraphy was prominent in Chinese culture, paper cutting also found an important place in customs and traditions.

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Chinese Paper

Chinese paper cutting originated around the 1st century AD when the Chinese invented paper. During the Tang Dynasty, there are records of using colored paper and paper cut decorations, showing it had become common enough for artistic use. Even though calligraphy was prominent in Chinese culture, paper cutting also found an important place in customs and traditions.

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Chinese paper Cutting

The exact time when during their long history the Chinese started to make paper cutting will most likely
never be known precisely. Since paper cutting has survived the continuous assaults of time, it shows the
importance it has had historically in Chinese culture. Even though calligraphy was prominent, paper
cutting made its place in the customs of the people.

Nonetheless, we might theorize that the art form was born when the Chinese invented paper around
the end of the first century AD. During that time and for a few hundreds of years after, paper was likely
not ample or modest enough to permit of its utilization as a medium of art. However by the Tang
Dynasty there are records of the utilization of shaded paper and paper cut decorations. Chinese writer
Du Fu noticed the specialty of paper cutting, which proposes that by his time paper must have been
common enough to be put to artistic use, beyond calligraphy. In the same century, Chinese artisan
paper creators had been asked to travel to Samarkand and Baghdad where theres some evidence of
Chinese paper cuts made for high ranking nobles.

Yet at the same period, there is some opposite evidence. It appears that in any event in a few parts of
China paper was still uncommon, or at any rate costly, enough for it to be re-utilized. There is a curious
case in which materials brought back from the monastery at Don Huang show a report detailing various
donations to the religious community by the regional leader, which was later used to put down vivacious
ink representations of a stallion and camel in paper cut form. In Tang times, as well, we discover the first
utilization of paper to repair artistic creations whose silk base had been damaged or torn. The paper was
decorated to show the damaged and lost fragment. This practice made the way to traditional silk, stencil
paintings based on the previously used paper cuts.

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