Lu Xue--Paper-cut Artist at the foot of Taishan Mountain

Lu Xue, invited researcher of China's Academy of Arts, members of the CPPCC of Shandong Province.

Paper-cutting as a traditional folk art and craft, is an important part of Chinese popular culture.

Lu Xue, with her own magical skills, becomes the world leader in paper-cutting industry. Lu Xue reproduces the Confucian shrines with the traditional Chinese paper-cut, the 104 large-scale paper-cut works "Confucius and Confucian shrines map" she created have been collected by Beijing Confucius Temple and the capital city museums. Subsequently, she created the 52 paper-cut works "Analects of Confucius" and 129 "disciple of Confucius," composing nearly three hundred pieces of art paper-cut work "sage and teacher - Confucius."

In 1995, she visited the United States, in the 200th anniversary of Christian Andersen, Lu Xue created 112 paper-cut works of Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, etc. These works were greatly appreciated by foreign friends. These paper-cut series of Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales were permanently collected by the Danish Christian Andersen Museum. The Queen of Denmark awarded to Lu Xue "the Danish flag knighthood." Lu Xue's works have been exhibited around the world and received public's affection of Europe the United States.