Yuxian museum to showcase paper-cut skills
Updated: 2011-07-21 11:33
(China Daily)
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A paper cutting art museum was recently opened in Hebei province's Yuxian county. It has 300 exhibition halls and a collection of 1,200 works representing 41 paper cutting genres across the country.
Yuxian is hailed as "the birthplace of paper cutting arts" and hosts an annual paper cutting art festival. It is home to more than 30,000 paper cutting artists, whose works are sold worldwide to generate 260 million yuan ($40.2 million) annually, which is nearly 4 percent of the county's GDP.