"Boss, be cautious next time you pretend to be forced!"

"That is, if it weren't for the fact that more of us ran faster, you wouldn't have been able to walk!"

"Haha, when the time comes, follow Granny Liu to learn embroidery, it's funny to think about it!"

"Get out!" Mo Qi listened to Xiao Li's jokes, and scolded with a smile: "Originally, I performed a random magic trick and collected some materials, but the result was ......"

Everyone laughed, this tour is also to record the material of the magic world, in fact, it is also street magic, but it is a magic trick while traveling. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Although it is very difficult, it works well and best suits Mochi's style.

"Okay, since you're here, pretend to be forced to the end!"

Mo Qi waved his hand and announced loudly: "It's a rare trip, let's go around a little bit more and see if there are any interesting projects suitable for magic, you know?"

As soon as the words fell, Lu Fang on the side clapped his hands, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, there is really a good place for magic, everyone come with me!"

He pulled Moqi and walked along the folk street, and everyone hurriedly followed to see what good places there were?

"This is it!"

As soon as Mo Qi looked up, he saw that the signboard turned out to be Central Plains paper-cutting?

Lu Fang poked Mo Qi and said: "Remember that a few days ago we discussed magic innovation? I went back and looked through a lot of materials, and found that many foreign masters like to integrate the traditional culture of their own nation into magic. For example, Ivanov in Russia, who once incorporated matryoshka dolls into magic, won a lot of praise. ”

"You mean cut-outs?"

Mo Qi nodded, the hero sees the same thing, he and Lu Fang have the same idea, only the national is the world! What can make foreigners interested is the ancient traditional culture, mysterious and connotative, if it can be integrated and innovated into a magic show, it will be the killer feature to conquer the world in the future.

"Let's go, go in and have a look!"

The group stepped into the hall and saw a large area of red and prosperous paper-cutting.

"Hello everyone, please take a look, all the paper-cuts in our store are handmade, all kinds of themes are available, and they can also be customized on the spot!"

As soon as the clerk saw the business coming to the door, he warmly greeted the group and began to introduce: "The paper-cutting in our store is roughly divided into four categories, the first type is for posting, that is, directly posted on the doors and windows, walls, lights, and color ties for decoration. Such as window flowers, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, smoke lattices, lantern flowers, paper flowers, door paper. ”

"The second category is for arrangement, that is, for embellishing gifts, dowries, offerings, and offerings. Such as happy flowers, offering flowers, ceremonial flowers, candlestick flowers, incense flowers, Chongyang flag. ”

"The third category is embroidery substrates, which are used for clothing, shoes and hats, and pillows. Such as shoe flowers, pillow flowers, hat flowers, saliva flowers, sleeve flowers, strap flowers. ”

"The last category is relatively small, for printing and dyeing, as a printing plate of blue calico, used for clothing, quilts, door curtains, wrappings, bibs, headscarves, etc. It is necessary to select the pattern in advance and then make it uniformly. ”

Mo Qi looked at it and understood, pointed to a row of patterns and asked, "These are all folded and cut?"

"Yes, folding red paper to create a repetitive pattern is one of the most basic paper-cutting techniques, and the different effects produced depend on the number and angle of folding. ”

The clerk picked up a peony flower and said: "When using this process to cut flowers, you can fold the paper twice or three times and then start cutting, and the resulting pattern is a shape that is evenly matched on all four or six sides." If an animal or figure is cut, the shape of the cut is symmetrical after folding once. Because the folding paper-cut is a pattern with strong symmetry, the resulting figure is more rhythmic. This technique is mostly used to cut the word flower and the ceiling flower. ”

"Another technique here, Yin and Yang carving!"

"Yin engraving is to engrave the outline line of the structure of the object, in the large block surface to express the line method, this effect is thick, strong, strong sense of weight, there is a strong sense of black and white contrast, the blank space that is cut to form a pattern, the line and the line are not connected.

"Yang engraving, also known as engraving, is just the opposite of yin engraving, which is to engrave the blank part and retain the outline line. The lines of the pattern are solid, and the lines are connected. This method is smooth, clear, and delicate. ”

"The combination of yin and yang is the best paper-cut expression technique, and the two methods of yin and yang engraving appear in the same work, so that the composition is varied, and the contrast between black, white and gray in the picture is clear, which is a very expressive paper-cutting technique. ”

"The last method is to use a knife or scissors to cut out the basic outline on the paper, and then use a needle to pierce the pattern, mainly to connect the multiple layers of paper, and at the same time to see the details in the roughness. This technique is often used for embroidery patterns, and sometimes the patterns are symmetrical, such as pillow flowers, shoe flowers, sleeve flowers, etc. ”

The group looked at all kinds of complex patterns on the wall, some of which were as thin as cow's hair, as if they could spray off the paper-cutting with a cough, and sighed that there was a specialization in the art industry, and there were countless folk masters.

"If you need anything, you can experience it on the spot, this is our Master Hu, a family heirloom for 30 years, known as the first cut of our folk street!"

Master Hu, who was in his forties, looked up at Mo Qi with his eyes and smiled, and continued to bow his head and cut paper. Everyone gathered around to see how it was done up close.

Mo Qi looked at it for a while, and said that the paper-cutting is divided into two parts, the first is origami, which needs to be folded in half according to the finished effect, so as to achieve the purpose of symmetry.

Then use scissors to cut, this looks at the kung fu, Master Hu has six or seven scissors in front of him, first use large scissors to make the outline, then use small scissors to make the pattern, and finally use a carving knife and needle to modify the details, a set is similar to doing surgery.

"It's beautiful!"

When Master Hu saw that there were guests visiting, he casually cut a relatively simple lotus flower, and in less than three minutes, a piece of red paper turned into a lifelike red lotus flower under a pair of skillful hands. At the moment of unfolding, everyone couldn't help but admire the magic of paper-cutting art.

"Master Hu, may I ask if you can cut paper if you don't use scissors?"

Master Hu was stunned, looked up at Mo Qi, and replied, "You mean tearing paper?"

He put down the scissors and sighed: "In the early years, a small number of artists would tear paper, using different types of paper, using the method of hand tearing to tear the shape, and cutting by hand will naturally be very limited, which is not suitable for showing the effect of ingenious craftsmanship." ”

But it is precisely this limitation that shows its unique artistic personality, with a kind of quaint and elegant, bold and vigorous style. There is often a kind of randomness in the process of tearing paper, and there is a natural charm. ”

He shook his head and said, "My family tradition is paper-cutting, and I haven't learned to tear paper, young man, I'll let you down!"

Mo Qi smiled: "You misunderstood, I mean you don't need scissors to touch the red paper, can you cut out the pattern in the air?"

"Are you kidding?"

Master Hu glared and said dissatisfiedly: "I lived to be forty-six years old for the first time I heard a joke that you can cut out patterns without scissors, you come and I'll take a look!"

Mo Qi smiled after hearing this, picked up a piece of red paper on the table, folded it in half a few times, handed it to his right hand, and then covered it with a red cloth. Picking up a pair of scissors in his left hand, he showed, "Okay, here's the incredible phenomenon of the Moqi World!"

After speaking, his left hand volleyed against the red paper covered by the red cloth, and flew up and down for a while, and the scissors clicked non-stop, as if he was really cutting something?

"This ......"

Master Hu looked confused, what does this mean?

Just when he was about to stand up, Mo Qi stopped, put down the scissors, slowly lifted the red cloth, and unfolded the red paper in his hand, which turned out to be a lotus flower!