A common scissors, a red paper, in the city of Nanjing community party member Chen Yao's hands can changing the butterfly, a running horse, also can tell an interesting story, depicts the beautiful scenery. 50 years of paper-cut career, "to mirror decals yellow", said to Chen Yaolai, not only gave him a colorful world, he became the inheritance of folk culture window.
1962, Chen Yao was born in Jiangsu, Rugao province. "The first interest in paper cutting is about five or six years old." Chen Yao recalls, when the family lived near a bar lights of the old artists, his lantern interest is not thick, but posted on the lamp on a wide variety of paper-cut is very curious, so I began to wonder. He is very talented in the absence of teacher guidance, with a paper-cut works won the first prize in the local children's talent contest. Let Chen Yao unforgettable is that the father put his work carefully into the binding line, with a kitchen knife edge cut neatly.
However, because of too much paper cutting, even if faced with college entrance examination, Chen Yao also can not lay down their deep love of paper cutting process, after the 3 college entrance examination defeat, he entered a canned food factory. The factory is very hard, he work during the day, at night on the floor on the bunk on a simple table of paper-cut creation. In 1984, Chen Yao's debut "shuihui beauty" published in the local newspaper, get a piece of money paid. Since then, he never put down the hands of the scissors.
1997, Chen Yao suffered a serious car accident, falling 5 disabled legs. He and his wife Disasters pile up on one another., both laid off. In desperation, Chen Yao thought of paper-cut paper-cut, want to rely on. "Nantong happened to be a scenic investment, I rented a small pavilion, performing paper-cut to sell." Chen Yaobian said, however, the situation is not cut, he thought, and he works with the school gate to luck, "the children a lot, but one morning a picture has been sold." While Chen Yao very frustrated when ready to shut down, all of a sudden a lot of students, his paper-cut was looted, a day to earn more than and 40 dollars.
In 2000, Chen Yao in the local has a small reputation, but he wanted to cut paper this art in a larger platform to display, in the investigation of several cities, Chen Yao finally decided to come to Nanjing. "Nanjing is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, cultural heritage." At first, Chen Yao can only rent a wall of less than 1 meters in Confucius temple to sell paper cutting, and now he has a store of more than and 40 square meters. "I ate too much in the middle, but I went through it."." Chen Yao said with a smile, I am in Nanjing is also a root, there is room to have a car, the daughter is also very promising, or graduate students, and now I think more is how to cut paper this folk culture." With the increasing of the paper-cut enthusiasm, now Chen Yao has been named as "China folk paper-cut artist", "national senior artist", won the "Jiangsu Province Disabled Art Competition Award, 2010 in the Shanghai World Expo Pavilion for live performances. In 2007 the community not only joined the party, also be Nanjing Gulou District awarded "top venture star", won the "Nanjing citizens" title.
For more than thirty years, Chen Yao created nearly 10000 pieces of praise for the party, the motherland, the new achievements of the reform and opening up and other paper-cut works. In the "people's Daily" and other media published up to 1000 pieces of paper-cut works. In addition to the creation of life is full of positive energy works, more admirable and Chen Yao's love. Over the years, Chen Yao focused on public welfare, paper cutting and love together. He often went to the women's prison condolences, but also to teach inmates some simple paper cutting, so that their daily lives will not be so boring, so that they regain the hope of life. He believes that as an ordinary members of the community, they can sing a little in the arena of life, a small paper-cut is also able to deliver the full of positive energy. He was employed in the teaching course of paper-cut Nanjing international school, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Mochou secondary schools, Nanjing women and children activity center and professional, and in the community, the army and other departments to teach paper cutting skills, with a party of ingenuity will traditional culture to the society and to the world, to the future.
(Sun Jun)
