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Recently, a group of students from the Naoma Primary School in Xinghualing district of Taiyuan, Shanxi province gave a special hanfu show — using the traditional Chinese style of clothing — at a sports meet.
Yuxian's paper-cutting has a history stretching further than the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The art form developed from the tradition of pasting up paper-cuts to bring good fortune to the family, as well as to decorate windows.
To master paper-cutting, 68-year-old Liu Jinglan has been practicing for six decades. She is an inheritor of Baotou-style paper-cutting, named after the city in Inner Mongolia autonomous region where it originated.