Praise for students at the cutting edge of art
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Students from Fengbang High School in Jiangqiao Town exhibited their paper-cutting skills at an art show in Qufu, a city in east China鈥檚 Shandong Province. Their skills with a simple pair of scissors and colored paper won applause from the audience.
The school set up its paper-cutting society in 2012. 鈥淲e wanted to do something different as most societies in our school are focusing on singing and dancing,鈥 member Gao Xiaojie said.
In the beginning, Lin Shipei, a young English teacher, bought a paper-cutting book and taught himself first before teaching his students.
In Shanghai-style paper-cutting, knives are not used as they are in north China, and members had to spend two to three months learning how to master the art just by using scissors.
Observation, understanding and imagination are key to making a good paper-cut in the Shanghai style, according to members. They observe animals in zoos to better capture the characteristics.
Kuang Xinyao, another member of the society, said: 鈥淚 do the paper-cutting whenever I have time after finishing school assignments.鈥 Paper-cutting has to be done outside her normal study time, but she finds it relaxing.
When she began to take an interest in the art, her mother started to learn it too and quickly fell in love with it.
In October, both took part in a competition aiming to promote intangible culture heritage in Shanghai.
Shanghai paper-cutting master Wang Jianzhong has been giving members the benefit of his experience.
Paper-cutting is not only an art but a way of developing a creative and smart mind, Wang says.
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