-剪纸 (Jian zhi) literal translation is cut paper
-what I'm trying to show is traditional Chinese paper cutting
-I joined a holiday program when i was younger where for a week a teacher from china would come to teach in different arts, there was traditional music, traditional dance, chinese calligraphy etc. but i choose 剪纸
This is the first, the teacher drew for the class before hand, all I needed to do was cut^
The teachers gave us papers to draw whatever we want to cut out...I had no idea what i was drawing^
The butterfly is my favourite out of the three喜 (xi) means happy so 囍 (xǐ) means double happiness^
This is a very common word you will see along with 福 (fu) meaning lucky