Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art of using scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper to decorate life or to complement other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a wide popular base and is interwoven into the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folklore activities. Its visual images and stylistic forms contain rich cultural and historical information and express the social perceptions, moral concepts, practical experiences, life ideals and aesthetic interests of the general public, and have multiple social values such as cognition, edification, expression, entertainment and communication.