A giant paper cut
Student/Zu Lei
Long ago, an elder and his granddaughter named Xiaoni lived together. The elder was already 60 years old. He was often bullied by villagers for his age.
One day, some village came to rob his properties in day and even put a fire on his house after robbing. The pitiful elder had to leave this village with his granddaughter. After several days, they had not seen any |
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other village. So the elder decided |
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to live with his granddaughter in mountain and then they lived into a cave. There were many animals in the cave. They live together with the animals and they could understand their languages.
One day, when looking for food, a little monkey playing in the tree caw them and came to the elder and talked with him: “Where ere you from and where you were gong to.” The elder told the monkey what they had suffered. The money felt pitiful for them. Xiaoni told it “we lived in a cave now. There were many animals. We loved them a lot.” Little monkey was moved and said to them: “I will find a place for you to live.” Then little monkey led them to the front of a mountain. A waterfall 50 meters tall and 20 miters wide located at the center of the mountain. “You went to the other side, a cave with living materials there.” Then the monkey vanished in the wood land.
When finding the cave, they were surprised. Everything used in home was there. And the window was thousands of tomes larger than home's -- the waterfall they had seen. After several days, the elder knew the next day was Spring Festival. So they collected some wile vegetables, mushroom, and nut on the mountains and bought some red paper.
Xiaoni and her grandpa wanted to cut a large paper cut to graduate the animals in mountain and celebrated Spring Festival for them also.
On Spring Festival. The animals greeted them happy new year. When coming to water fall, they were surprised. A great paper cut was there. They were so exited.
From then on, the animals lived together with them, which made the mountain more charming.
Interview story
Student/Chen Yanzhi
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We decided to visit to Grandpa Zhang. Before interviewing, we heard his temper was weird . I was wondering if he could accept our request.
Village road is full of dust and not smooth. It is hard to walk on it. Swinging with the car body, when driving on. I was dazzling. “How long the road was.” I felt I was going to get carsickness and counted |
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numbers in my heart. |
Will the elder accept out interview? If not, our action was a failure. Our target—to establish Ningxia a paper cut art website can not be completed. More than 30 kilometers road was so long, too far. We finally got Grandpa Zhang's home after a long way. When we expressed our intention, the elder did not agree us, we were disappointed. Under the pervasion of Mr Liu and Mr Chen and the wished we expressed, the elder agreed at last. In the communication with the elder, I had a good harvest and at the same time I could see the preserving spirit and the ardor to art. That is precious.
Almost pm 4:00, we thanked the elder and drove to home. Although all the road, vehicle, driver were the same, I found the oppressive feeling vanished, the road became smooth, because I succeeded in this interview and went further to our target.
Origin of paper cutting
Student/Zu Lei
A bugbear called Nian is frightening.
When villagers dancing , Nian suddenly come. After seeing the fire, it runs off. People know Nian fear red thing. From then on, they affix red paper on window.
Then they change red paper into various pictures, which is called window flower. Now it is called paper cutting. |