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Quanzhou students beckon New Year with cutouts

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2017-01-18

Primary school students in Quanzhou's Dehua county created 100 paper carving works to celebrate the Year of Rooster that will start on Jan 28.

Paper carving, similar to paper cutting in its applying a blade to paper, has a profound history in Dehua and represents a distinctive aspect of Quanzhou's traditional culture.

Quanzhou students beckon New Year with cutouts

Primary school students in Dehua county, Fujian, present their paper carving works that blend images of roosters and porcelain kettles. [Photo/Zhang Jiuqiang/qzwb.com]

Dehua's young students have displayed their paper carving works adorned with the image of roosters to welcome in the upcoming Chinese New Year. They also chose to include porcelain kettles in their cuttings, the object stands as another famous Dehua product.

Quanzhou students beckon New Year with cutouts

Primary school students stand in a kettle-shaped formation and hold up their paper carving works featuring roosters, in Fujian’s Dehua county. [Photo/Zhang Jiuqiang/qzwb.com]

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