Zhang Jiwei, 70 years old, lives in Jianxin Lane, gusu district, and once worked in Gusu Lantern Festival (later Suzhou Folk Craft Factory). In the past, the Gusu Lantern Festival was very beautiful, and its business scope covered antique palace lanterns, electric lanterns, Gusu paper-cutting, flower-pulling, five-color flags and other crafts, and its business footprint spread all over the world. Zhang Jiwei recalled that in the 1980s, every family in old Suzhou would hang colorful paper-cut flowers to celebrate holidays and weddings.Zhang Jiwei shows flowers-pulling works. □ Reporter Wang KesheYesterday, Zhang Jiwei collected more than a dozen paper-cut flowers in transparent preservation bags, carefully marked the name and year, and sent them to Niujiaxiang community. The words "long history, beautiful shape, bright colors, exquisite quality, welcome to buy" are still faintly visible on the preservation bag, which can be described as a brilliant witness of this technology."In the past, the whole family would buy flowers together, and then spend their time decorating and decorating their new homes to create a festive atmosphere, which is probably the' sense of life ceremony' in the current population!"

Donate all the "beloved things" that he has preserved for 30 years to the community. Zhang Jiwei frankly experienced some ideological struggles. "These paper-cut flowers were hand-made by me at that time. It can be said that every flower has poured my heart and blood." In the process of making lacquered flowers, if one knife is carved badly, the whole lacquered flowers will break. At that time, there is no double-sided tape, which means that all previous efforts have been wasted. He regards these flowers as treasures. In his view, they represent the characteristics of an era and also record the sense of ritual in the old Suzhou.

To his great regret, young people can rarely see this bright paper-cut flower now. Even if they have seen it, they are cut into pieces and thrown into the "salute" and scattered from a height. Donated to the community, Zhang Jiwei hopes that the flower-pulling skills can continue to be passed down and displayed in community activities, so that children can understand the history of paper-cutting flower-pulling in Suzhou and learn something that books can't learn.

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